Friday, May 14th we ventured out to Starvation. We started off at 5:30 am and were on the water by 7:00 am. We had lines by 7:30 and fished until 3:00pm. Parker and Jim were with me on the Fish Steeler. We started trolling in the Rabbit Gulch area. Within a few minutes, Parker was hooked up. He had his downrigger on the back and set lines at 20 and 10 feet. the 10ft lure caught the first of the day. It was a nice-sized rainbow. The catching wasn't super fast but it was consistent in the one hole so we continued to pass through the lane and ended the day with 9 rainbows and a bonus brown trout.
The hot lures were pop gear and worm. They were hitting red. I managed one on a rainbow pop gear and Parker got a couple with pink flasher and squid. We tried rapalas, spinners, spoons, pop gear was the only consistent catcher.
The fish were nice-sized and fun to fight on the retrieval. By 11:00 the wind came in but we missed the rain. The wind gusted up to 20 mph and stayed at around 15 mph. We fished until the trolling motor battery died on us. We decided that was enough time and the bite had stopped as well.
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