We hit lake Goodwin at the crack of noon? This client never wants to fish early, and that's O.K. by me as it's nice to sleep in occasionally. We started by drop-shotting sniper snubs in 12-15 feet of water and started catching dinks right away, so we moved to slightly deeper water 18-20 and picked up a three pounder right away. By late afternoon we were struggling to get even small fish and we are getting cooked in the direct sun, so we switched over to trolling perch pattern cranks running about 8-10 feet while we had a sandwich and a beverage. After just a minutes my rod just buries and line is burning off and the fight is on, after about five minutes we still have not seen the fish, no jumps just long hard deep runs. I Finally get the fish to the net and it turns out to be a five pound Smallie, what a brute, pound for pound they are one of the best fighting fish around. So we get back to trolling and eating and my friends rod starts bouncing and the line is going sideways fast as the fish is running, as he tries to catch up to the fish reeling frantically it breaks water and we see it's a very large trout! He lands the Rainbow just as the plug comes unpinned 22" and 3 1/2 lbs just a great looking fish, firm and all fins crisp and intact. After that we caught a few more 12-14 inch trout and called it a day. It's the time of year for some night time Bass fishing, if you have never done this it is a gas, and the fishing can be crazy! Give us a call 360-333-9326