DC evening X

We went out for an evening fish to DC. Parker pulling full time work at 2 different jobs at times that work with his school schedule. To say the least we haven't been out much lately. Parker was ready for some relaxation and fishing was the ticket. We left shop around 4 pm Wednesday night and made it on the water by 5 pm and was fishing after a short run to our favorite lane on the lake. We stopped and dropped the trolling the motor and was fishing. 

 Parker was the first in and then I had a line in shortly after. I had on a two tone JoD and within a couple minutes, before I could my second line in the water, had a hit! It was a good fighter and jumper so we knew we had a rainbow trout on line. He fought and jumped and made it fun to bring in. We netted him and were quite happy thinking this is going to be a stellar evening. Not so much! He was the only fish for the night and again we ran every combination of colors and depth we could think of. The water is heavy with algae right now and needs to turn over. With the weather pattern changing this week and snow in the mountains this may happen earlier than usual. Plus I think the number of recreaters we have been out with may play a role in the activity level of the fish. Usually we are in and out of the water but that is in the morning runs and before all the recreaters are on the water. We fished each of lanes for the evening and them the storm came in with a vengeance. Lightning started hitting the peaks and hills and we were off the lake very quickly after the first strike hit. The rainbow we caught was a nice 2 pounder and gave us two nice fillets. We cleaned it and got on the road just as the full front hit the lake and canyon. We were happy to be off the lake before the torrent of wind and rain hit.