I needed some exercise and walked around 5 of the lakes this morning before getting back on the job hunt.
The water levels were easily up a foot and every lake was muddy or green at this point.
I didn't see a single fish in any of the shorelines. When I got to lake 2, there were about 40 people fishing and nothing on their stringers.
I finished my walk back to the truck and as I was passing the last 20 feet of shoreline, there he was. a decent triploid rainbow just cruising about 20 feet out. I cast the spinner fly out and he dipped out of sight... until the line went tight and I was on!
Not a bad stocker bow at all and probably the average sized trout for these lakes this year.
(https://i.imgur.com/5whPLAv.jpeg)
That was it. I walked to my truck and headed home to resume my job hunt. I might come back this afternoon, but will probably just wait until tomorrow and give it a good soak while I get soaked.