So we headed over the mountains last weekend for my wife's family annual birthday bash in Ephrata as she shares the same birthday with her brother but with a spread of 15 years so had a great bbq with all of the extended family members coming from Moses lake to Wenatchee. My brother in law Scott had just got a smokin' deal on a boat and was excited to take me fishing, so we talked the ladies into letting us take the boat for a spin Sunday morning- and of course brought along some fishing gear! Now the wind was whipping Saturday night so wasn't sure if we would even be fishing Sunday morning but low and behold the morning dawned with just a breeze moving the trees!

Scott said they had been nailing the LMB over by crab creek and may get into some walleye too so were up at 5 am and were rolling towards the Potholes at 5:30 and greeted by a beautiful sunrise! Got to the state park and motored over to some of the islands to throw some top baits cranks at the shallows~ we worked our way around some shallow water and little islands and Scott got the first bass of the day! Turned out to be the last as next we hooked about 5 catfish on crank baits! Go figure! We did get to see some cool wildlife included a pair of deer swimming from island to island!

Moved out to the open water and saw about 20 boats working over the water so switched our gear to walleye and started trolling in the 22' to 12' water column to see if we could get some buy eyes! Over the next 2 hours we hooked about 15 catfish and we were almost out of worms and our wives called us to get our butts back for Sunday brunch!

Oh well, it was a fun day with my brother in law to try and different type of fishing for me plus he got to know his boat a little better as well! See you on the water!