excellent, I love Munsel, deep clear water. From what I saw on Tuesday, we appear to have 2 pairs of Osprey and in the far north end a pair of bald eagles I observed might be settling in...
a couple of fun things about Munsel: it gets heavily planted with trout from Feb-early May. Then in June, 10,000 coho fry that STEP is raising nearby get fin clipped and planted in the lake so they can eventually make their way down to the Siuslaw and out to the ocean. There are also coho making it through the lake now and spawning in the inlet creeks, so by mid-summer there will be lots of coho smolt (with and without adipose fins) getting to the 7"-8" range...these can never be retained! so anyone fishing Munsel during the summer should remember: salmon smolt are shiny silver and have forked tails and lakes that connect to the ocean do not have kokanee in them!
also interesting is that Munsel gets back some big, unclipped rainbows that have visited the ocean. goes like this- STEP runs an "eggs-to-fry" program in the elementary school here and ODFW lets the kids plant the steelhead fry in the lake as part of that program. (Munsel doesn't have any appropriate spawning grounds for rainbows or steelhead). Some of the fry make it to the ocean and return to the lake, the ones I have seen were all about 22" long, cookie cutter brats from an elementary school aquarium...these can be retained as the "1 rainbow over 20 inches" per day part of your daily 5 trout limit. I have not talked to anyone that has caught one yet, not even sure how long they stay in the lake before trying to get back to the ocean...
cheers, roger