WOW that is a huge smallie.  Good for her, and good that you are spending time with the most important person in your life.  Way to go Mark and Anita.

Sounds like another great day on the lake for you.  I'll be out there tomorrow and I'll be happy with fraction of the fish you caught.

Went out today with two of my buddies and worked different areas, mostly deep docks.  Dropshotting was the technique with different plastics and my friend Som boated a 1.5, 2.2, and a 3.0, while my other friend boat a couple 1.5s and a largie that went over two pounds.  The weather was ok at first, but got nasty around 11am.  I didn't do a whole lot, except for dinks, some perch and a 13" smallie.  I was mostly trying different lures.  I wonder how Chuck did?  We launched out of Coulon at the same time.

My girlfriend Susan and I went out to Lake Wa today.  8:30am-2:30.   Fish seemed to be biting well.  We caught alot of dinks, so we probably got 10-15 fish each.  A couple perch, and a 3lb squawfish were also caught.  Mostly were caught using drop shot rigs.  Around 1pm we had a great experience.  I started it off with a 4.2 smallmouth.  When I pulled this fish into the boat, I swore I had my first 5 lb smallie, man this fish was FAT.     Barely measured 18 inches long.  My girlfriend Susan caught her 3.9 lb smallie about 15 minutes after mine.  Thats her biggest smallie so far, and I imagine will get up'd fairly soon   These fish are really eating up.  Alot of 11-12 inch fish were caught, and a few around 14 inchs, Great day on the water.

The big fish came from a dock, the end of the dock in probably 18 feet.  Boat sitting in 25 or so.  We also hit some weedlines by the old mill like in Chucks post, 15-20 feet.  Look for rock, weedlines and deeper docks.  I was going to mention but didn't want my post super long, that 2 other clubs were having a tournament out there today.  LLBC, and another club out of Tacoma.  At one point there was 6 boats fishing the vicinity of Coleman point    Looked like the community hole today. 
Hope you can get into some nice fish tomorrow Nick.  Give us a report. 

Chris

unfortunately I didnt get to get out, my buddies truck is having problems, so I am sitting here today cleaning the house.

Over time, the largemouth have mostly been replaced throughout the lake by the smallies.  The exception being around the cut near the U of W.  Occassionally I still catch a largemouth here and there elsewhere in the lake but those are rare surprises.  (There are a few other exceptions that are held in secret by a few tight lipped anglers.)

The old lumber mill disappeared last year - it is being replaced as we speak with condos etc..  You can locate it in the East channel.  If you put your boat in at the South end and go around Coleman Point heading North, the lumber company was located on the East shore.  Where the individual homes give out, you will see a small creek and an Osprey Nest on a pole, just off shore.  From that point on, (heading North), you will see lots of construction taking place.  If you motor around you will discover a set of flats that go 2/3 of the way out into the East channel to 40 feet before they start to fall off fast.  It is a huge area, but there are a few sweet spots on it that make the search profitable!