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At today's gas prices "combo" trips look good and there's a lot to be said for the pleasures of Whidbey Island. If you want to add a freshwater trophy trout option to the clams, crabs and saltwater angling, consider Lone Lake, a 90-acre body of very shallow water that's never better than in April when holdover fish from last year's plants might push two feet in length. Add decent B&Bs such as Lone Lake Cottages with a private beach, inns, quality restaurants and shops and this could be the spot to introduce a "significant other" to angling if you don't mind the many homes.
The key here is getting outside the weeds and into the fringes of the lily pads where trout rise. In most cases this is where the bottom drops off from five or six feet down to a "stygian" 10 feet - the lake's only 15 or 20 feet deep. Lure fishers can do well dragging a trolling fly, light spoons and small spinners with single barbless hooks. Casting the usual Kastmasters If it's blowing wind drifting a streamer, green or olive bugger or a Carlton General just off the edges of the lily pads. If you want to cast, bring a couple of anchors and try the usual Chronomid color spectrum that seems to change from trip to trip. Spot casting buggers works. A size 12 Parachute Royal Coachman has produced trout consistently in the past as have humpies and most damsel imitations. If nothing else works you can always get trout slowly retrieving the smallest scuds you can tie on. Sparkle pupa and other patterns that replicate the freshwater snails in the lake work too. The other approach is casting small topwater poppers for smallmouth back into the milfoil and pads. This can produce some massive trout as well as smallmouth. There's a decent ramp at the north end with all sorts of boat trailer parking, but the lake seems best suited to tubes, canoes and catarafts. In most cases morning is best as afternoon winds can blow in. Calm evening have fans too. Go To Page: 1 2 |
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