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I had 45 minutes to kill tonight so I drove down to Waverly Park just north of downtown Kirkland.
Little did I know I had an impending showdown with mother nature. So out on the dock I went.
My new starting activity is a worm, straight down under the dock. Good sign ... a 4 inch bass, then a 5 inch perch, then a couple of this year's bass minnows.
By then the rain and wind were picking up. I told mother nature in no uncertain and certainly NSFW terms that I didn't care how hard it rained or how hard the wind blew, I was fishing and that was that. So I cast out from the dock with my perch trawler. It acted really funny on the cast, more on that later. In short order I had another perch, maybe 6 or 7 inches. But by this time it was getting darker, and raining harder, and blowing harder, so I glared up at the sky, and it rained harder, and I uttered some choice words, and then it pretty much was in full on torrential downpour mode. Water soaking through my clothes in 3 minutes, dripping off my hat, soaking through my shoes, basically I was nearly as wet as the fish. And then suddenly it stopped raining, and the gale came, almost blowing my net and tackle box into the water. And then 3 minutes later the wind died down to what it had been before.
I kept fishing.
I did have one more bite, but I was monkeying around with the other pole and didn't get to it in time. From how it was acting, I'm guessing catfish, but who knows. Could be anything in Lake Washington.
In any case, back to the funny action on casting - I figured it out. From the dock at Waverly, you can cast into water that is DEEP without even casting hard. I'm guessing 40 feet or so. Also, the bottom is very rocky. Not much weed hangup, and a lot of chatter from the sinker on the bottom.
It seems to be a much different habitat than what I've been fishing. I will have to return when I have more than 45 minutes of daylight, and I'm not directly under a thunderstorm.
And on a final note, I really wish that people would stop feeding the vermin. Seems everywhere I go around Lake Washington, there is some pathetic scavenger lurking. Seattle side it is blue herons. I would happily feed a blue heron a fish, with a big hook in it, and take it home to feed to my cat. And chop up anything the cat wouldn't eat to use for crayfish bait. Other than that it has no use. It is a wild animal which should not be begging from humans. At Waverly it was a seagull who some idiots had clearly been feeding little fish to. I chased it away at least 10 times and it kept coming back. It too would make good cat food. It is really unfortunate that people do not think about what they are doing.
Available Fishing Guide:
Website: Darrell & Dads Family Guide Service