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Headed out on a bright, balmy Tuesday morning. Shut down west of Gary Light to get lines in before we passed the light and cornered towards the discharge. I set a Dipsey with a bright Super Slim spoon - only 15 feet of line out and it got hit before the next couple of lines were set. Off to a quick start! Headed to the discharge and made a couple of quick circles and had a slow but steady bite. One of my crew saw some deeper marks on the screen and asked what those were. "Probably lakers," I said. He said he'd like to catch one so I sent a larger spoon down. In about 10 minutes that spoon got hit but the "laker lover" was reeling in a coho so the other angler took it. It was too small to be a laker, that was apparent, but it was a brown trout. Then the fog rolled in on a light north wind and the temperature dropped about 20 degrees. 
The action died out as we trolled east along the landfill. Then a big fish took one of the orange ThinFins off one of the high lines. Tom got his laker!  I've learned that lakers are available in early March, but I only get one on a surface line every few years. 
By now, I'd switched to driving by watching the chart because the landfill wall was invisible in the fog more than 30 yards or so. We hit a spot with quick action and made a couple circles back through that area and finished our limit. 
Great first trip of the year, nice sized salmon for early March. Forty-three degees when we left the lake. Seventy-three back home in Newton County. 
No fish photo, but here's me setting a line in the fog!