I'll be taking a non-outdoors dad and his son fishing the end of August, they live in Olympia.  Plan on showing them (they will be in a Malibu XL 2 Plus) a variety of small jigs, live and rubber worm set-ups,  etc. so they get an idea of different baits.
Even if it's not great that time of year, I'm assuming we can get some action and more will be better even if it's smaller. Right now I'll plan on Silver Lake unless someone has a better thought for this type of crew in the Oly area.  I'm quite a bit north and don't fish that area much. 

JasonM, I've been watching the calendar as well.  I have a non-fishing dad with a son who REALLY wants to catch some fish.  They live in Oly and I'd drive them down to fish out of my Malibu II+ while I fished out of the Trident.  Normally I'd love to investigate this on my own, but I only have 1-2 shots with the young fellow and want to hook him up.  I've attached a map with a 1 and 2 and would appreciate any suggestions for one or the other.  Are folks putting in at the Silver Lake boat launch or Streeters?  These will be first time kayakers in the Malibu tank and while it's very stable, I'd like to reduce paddling distance if possible for them.

Any suggestions would be appreciated, I'm leaning toward 10-14, weather permitting.

Upland, Really appreciate it. I need to help this dad get some fish for his son. We’re at least 10 days out which should help. Will try streeters launch as I might end up towing them lol.

As the weather for crabbing is just a bit unpredictable and on the exciting side, but I still have the Saturday pass with my wife tied up (not literally), Silver lake is the new target. 

That's to some help from Upland, if you look at the picture above, I plan to try the area in the #1 circle, the northern tip.  His video toward the beginning of the thread is really good.

It's a 2 hour drive for me, so I'll plan to launch about 9:30 - 10 and will be in a white camo trident 13 if anyone is interested.  Hoping there's some big schools of crappie and perch in there as well as a bluegill or two.

Towards the end of September (the 20th, I think?), I went out and just fished in the area right off to your left when you launch from the WDFW ramp and I don't think I took more than five casts the whole time I was there without catching something. Caught a few small bass, but mostly crappies in the 9-10 inch range. Was the most fun I had all year and even took three home and had a nice, little fish fry.

Hope to hear updates on how the fishing is now! I started grad school, so I haven't had much free time so that was the last I've been out, but if the fishing is hot I may have to make some time...

I just checked with the Silver Cove Resort and and $16 and change you get a day pass to fish off their bank if you have kids or others that don't fit in the kayak.  You can see on the map I posted earlier where shore folks were and a decent cast can cross the canal, so aside from not being able to vertical jig, you can catch plenty right from shore.  It's what I wanted to find for my non-outdoors dad with a son who really wants to catch a fish or 30, lol.  Great place to take someone to just have lots of action.
Small white jig of 1/32 to 1/8, or I'm sure a fly with a small sinker 6 inches above it would be just as good.  A bare hook with a strip of porkrine and you'd be baited for the day.  If you haven't fished panfish before, I like a #8 or #6 (6 is bigger) thin wire hook with about a 5/8 " long shank.  That makes it easier to grab the end of the hook to release what you don't catch without injury.  Some guys suggest turning the brb of hook outward a bit to increase chances of a hookup, but I never bother.  Have fun.

Tried Silver Lake again Saturday.  Pretty interesting how the fish have moved.  We put in at Streers and paddled a mile or so through the canal to the place we fished last by Silver Cove Resort.  Pretty surprising to not see a single person/boat in that area.  Two of us were paddling the tandem Malibu XL 2 plus and fished for an hour with NADA. We paddled past a young mom and daughter walking and she mentioned everyone was fishing on a canal on the other side, so around we went. 

The canals are dredged and it's 4 feet deep 1 foot off the bank and maybe 5 in the middle of the 40 foot wide strip.  You had to be near the end to get into fish but we then did fine.  Our best bait was very thin white gulp worms on a 1/32 ounce jig.  Had to add split shot so the bobber barely floated.  Pull it an inch and if it bounced ever so slightly, give a quick test.  Limit is 10 over 9 inches, most of what we kept were 10+.

Also, for the first time in a life-time of fishing got checked by a really nice warden.  He talked for a bit, mentioned it was good we had our PDFs and then asked if we had our licenses, and were they in a place they were easily accessed.  mM friend in the front was sitting low in the water and it was the first time in the Malibu tank it wasn't overly stable).
I could reach mine behind me in the pocket of the seat and flipped it to him.  Checked it over while offering some other lakes, commenting we were using what most were and never asked for the others license (good because it was back in our car at Streeters).

It's a 2 hour drive from Kent and you can pay $16 to enter Silver Cove resort and fish off their banks.  Great place to take new fisher people.  Watched one dad giving advice to about 7-8 year old daughter who dialed in casting and could drop a cork within a few feet of the bank across the canal.  Not like a fight in the salt and not as wild as it was about thanksgiving, but we have a good fish fry in the planning.