Well, today I got up a little before 6, got the kids up from 3 different condos, got 'em cereal, and off we went for some laker fishing. We went to Rocky Point first, then out almost to Wapato on Mill Bay. By 7 my shirt was off, by 8 we were heading in as 2 could no longer wait any longer to go to bathroom, and seeing as they are not my kids, they didn't want to go in the lake. We got one small, maybe 3.5 pound fish right away on a crawdad imitation, never got another bite or fish. Gonna try again tomorrow a.m. as normally we have no problem catching them, we just quit when we are tired of catching the, not today though.

Then off to the daily walk to Starbucks, yeah, there is a real one here now by Safeway. Then off on the water for skiing, wakeboarding, innertubing. Everyone froze in the water as this year the temp is even colder than normal for this time of year, maybe it is from the river flooding last week, I don't know, but it is freezing, I'm surprized the bass are biting. Lots of wood debri starting to show up too in the water every day. The water was flat all day, excellent.

Then off to the water slides for a couple hours this afternoon, then to dinner, and then of course some of the kiddos, and me still wanted to fish, so off to one of the smaller nearby lakes for some fast action of trout, bass, and every type of panfish found in Washington. Super fast action, a good kid pleaser after the lack of action this morning.

Fishing this morning, the gang....



boats are no fun, don't get one Parker...


My kid wakeboarding...




The chunky just turn 5 year old nephew, who's parents won't get in a boat, but here he is tubing..



While they took a break and ate lunch and sat in the sun at the pool, I decided it was my turn to catch a sucker, just to say I did, they actually don't fight too well when on a bass rod, one caught, that is good for my lifetime..



Jennifer and the kids at the water slides...





The bikini hatch....




Got ya!




The fast action small fish catching this evening....







Hopefully I will have some pics of a decent sized, or at least a few mackinaw tomorrow. I do have a couple good bikini hatch pics, I'll save them for later. So far now we, or actually I should say the kids have caught tons of trout, smallmouth, largemouth, suckers, sqaws, one mack, and a bunch of seriously small but cool looking panfish. Of course, the wake up call will be fairly early in the morning as there are 4 kids waiting to go make another attempt at the macks. So far we have only kept 4 trout, 3 bass, and 3 bluegill to eat. I think tomorrow may be a meal making day if we find some decent fishy's.

By the way, Rocky Point had a lot of good sized smallmouth against the rocks by the road, in about 30 feet of water. I fish for bass here and at Curlew every summer, by far this is the best smallie fishing in this lake so far and the water is super cold, so there must be quite a few here.