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Williams Lake Report
Spokane County, WA

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04/22/2017
Rainbow Trout
Noon
04/22/2017
3
1643

Ok, opening day at Williams - I was lazy and didn't feel like getting up early so got there at the crack of 10am. Fished until 1. Caught 4 had 3 other bites. Still fished worm and powerbait on my float tube. It was relatively windy so I didn't even bring my fly rod.

Fishing was fairly slow (see above) but I did get one nice 2 pounder. Lovely fish. A few boats that came by were doing well trolling and they showed me 3 nice 4 lb rainbow brood stockers. Additionally the nearest boat to me caught two large fish - I'm thinking 2 pounders but maybe bigger.

So, if I had to guess I speculate that the fishing is fine but not near what I consider to be it's peak in 2014. It's hard to say if the big fish were an fluke, perhaps most of the big planters are caught immediately on the opener. I suspect that next year will be the big year post rehab. I was fishing the far SW portion of the lake.


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Purdypog
4/22/2017 6:11:00 PM
Just a few clarifications since I can't figure out how to edit. The peak was 2013 when I thought about it. Also, my rating of 3 is only because it was the opener and expectations are higher. It would be a 4 under normal circumstances.
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