April 29th is the day this year...

I hit summit lake (thurston county) last year and did pretty well... caught and released well over a dozen small planters plus 2 or 3 holdovers (or maybe they were the large hatchery plants) by trolling small white tbs spoons..... a good time was had by all...

it was really a weird day though.... tried a bunch of different colors but only one fish was caught on any spoon that wasn't white on one side....

not sure what was up with that but I think I'll go try it again this year to see if this was a fluke or whether it's a real pattern....

maybe all the food they feed the put and take trout at the hatchery is white and that's why they respond to that color....


probably should also note that virtually all the action was at the extreme ends of the lake... trolled the shoreline along the middle portion of the lake and caught a few there but it was at the ends of the lake where things really got crazy.....