T-Bone, your rant needs no excusing as it is completely justified. Personally I can't stand people who can't clean up after themselves. It's totally indicative of our trending culture though where no one wants to take responsibility for their own actions.

As for the fishing, I've fished Rock from both shore and boat and can tell you there's no comparison. For whatever reason you need to cover a lot of ground when fishing this lake as, generally speaking, if the fish are there they will bite. Are you fishing from shore because you lack a boat or just prefer it?

I'm in the process of restoring an old Skeeter bass boat and will likely need a fishing partner when I'm done (my wife worries if I go out alone). Can't say when the project will be done but if you want me to give you a holler when I start taking her out I can certainly do so. I live in Spokane and plan on hitting up both Rock and Long once I've got everything fixed up.

Perry

sorry to hear no fish t-bone, but i'm sure it was still a decent day to be out. i commend you on your litter pick-up, very noble. I usually only pick up a bottle here, a worm container there, two grocery sacks, impressive. think about how many peoples experience you are enhancing by picking up trash!!(especially the kids) i guarantee you will be rewarded by the fish gods...

Nothing chaps my @$$ more than littering also. I have seen plenty of good fishing and hunting grounds get closed/gated ect. I do the same thing pick it up. Thanks Man.

Oyeah, how was the water clearity in the lake. Some times near shore it gets a bit muddy and stays clear out futher and sometimes this time of year the hole thing can get a bit muddy.

Thanks for all the positive comments and as I suspected; a number of you do the trash P/U, too.

Yes Perry, I would be interested in joining you on a boat trip; thank you for the invite. At present, I am "boat-less". I live in Rockford and fish on M/T; due to my work schedule.

I did catch a 17" rainbow last week at Rock Lake from shore and I have had some good days on both browns and rainbows casting small plugs and spinners from shore. A lot of the shore fishing is a SNAGFEST; if you try sliding sinker baitfishing and for some reason, lures seem to work better.

I always have a couple grocery sacks in the boat or truck and pick up a lot of garbage at access areas. Most of the time nobody ever knows about it but one time about a year ago at Wye Lake, I was picking up the garbage and the adjacent home owner caught me in the act and thanked me. I didn't even see him until he spoke. It felt good.