Took the little kids and grandparents down and fished right in front of Gonzaga Law School. Took the crawdad trap along as I'd seen some big ones in there. Baited the trap with chicken liver and tossed it in then went to work rigging up the kids' poles. We were just plunking with worms and dough balls as I didn't care what they caught. They're 2 and 3 so you know fishing with them is almost more work than it's worth. Anyway, it's so rocky there we kept getting hung up on the bottom and breaking off. My son did manage to hook a fish (don't ask me how) but got it wrapped around something a few feet from shore and broke it off. My daughter caught a huge crawdad on a worm (must have been about 7 inches). Eventually I pulled the trap and had a few dads in there so for fun we just tied some liver on their poles and let them fish for crawdads.

We ended up with 32 before the storm hit that evening. Also managed to land a couple of fish but I don't know what they were. I thought they were whitefish but they didn't have mouthes on bottom, rather big mouths in the front. I don't think they were small mouth bass. They were probably around 8 inches and caught on a nightcrawler.

One of my friends said the river is pretty polluted, but let me tell you I could barely taste the mercury in those crawdads after I'd boiled them up and dipped them in butter.

I'm interested to hear anyone's take on what type of fish I was catching. They would hit hard but not put up much of a fight.