Trout bite through chilly Opening Day conditions in June Lake Loop

SILVER LAKE 

                  While all these lakes are relatively close to each other, conditions can vary between them, and Silver Lake took the brunt of the wind and cold.It was still fishable, but it was borderline white-caps at times, and some float tubers showed up, watched it from shore for a while only to move on to a Plan B somewhere else.Shore pounders had a fair run on DFW rainbow trout with floating baits, while some guys in waders connected on spoons and jigs.Bonnie Peak of Oregon weighed in a 5.8-pound rainbowwhile fishing with Jason Bivins who had what looked like a 3 pounder that fell for salmon eggs. There was chatter of a 6-plus pounder weighed at the store when WON arrived to check the scene out. Most boaters were positioned offshore of the Rush Creek inlet, while the best shore fishing was on the opposite end near the launch ramp and floating dock.

GRANT LAKE

The wind also was part of the equation at Grant Lake, but not to the point it kept boats off the water. McDonald told WON brown trout to 3 pounds and “some healthy full-finned rainbows” were caught across from the Marina, and the area just outside of the Rush Creek inlet. That’s where WON reader Gabriel Marquez dropped his tube in and proceeded to bag at least one nice brown and a 4.8-pound rainbow that stood as the top Grant Lake fish in the Ernie’s Tackle Monster Trout Derby. He said he was working with Get Bent Customz Sluggos in the Emerald Hopper color.