Greg: Rock Lake - 6/6

I pulled the boat to work again today and a coworker and his son joined me for the evening at Rock Lake. He just got a Crestliner and wanted to get a look at Rock Lake with someone who had been on the lake before. I did a poor job of "guiding". Between the 3 of us, we only landed 4 fish between 5 PM and 9 PM. We took home 2 brown trout around 15 inches and released 2 small rainbows. The lake was flight calm and the sun was bright when we arrived. I was a bit surprised that the fishing didn't improve as the sun set.

More Info: We trolled around mid-lake with four rods. I used a dodger with a brass walleye spinner tipped with half a crawler on on rod and a Rapala Troll-To (10ft) crankbait on a planer board on my second rod. Each of these rods caught two fish. My coworker and his son tried various shallow diving cranks and trout spinner/dodger combos with little success. We finished the evening by casting crankbaits into the shore line for 45 minutes. A couple fish followed the lures to the boat, but nothing bit.

My Humminbird 899 is a cool toy. It clearly detected suspended trout and bait fish. We got our bites shortly after we trolled over the best looking arches. Trout were suspended between 20-30 feet. I liked using the split screen setting with traditional sonar on one panel and Side Scan on the other. The suspended trout showed up as little white specks on the Side Scan to the left and right of the boat. Pretty sweet! Is it worth the money? I'm still not completely convinced, but it is a cool toy.