Not as good as I had hoped.

I went out yesterday at about 9:30am from the fort spokane launch, motored out to the point at two rivers by 10:15am or so. The water temperature was about 38 degrees in the spokane arm and around the same in LR. From what I gathered about what people were saying from boat to boat confersation, I arrived just in time to miss the bite. I gave this trip an average rating because I did hook into a few trout and one walleye by the end of the day, but of course I was there for walleye so the trip wasen't great just ended up average.

Key points:
- used a 3/8 oz chartuse ball head jig with a 3/4 nightcrawler threaded up the shank and a trailer hook.
- bottom fished from 15 FOW to 60 FOW in almost every line from the two rivers point into LR and the Spokane.
- trolled the east side of the river from the two rivers point up to abraham's cove. Troll set up was 18 lead core 3 colors (100 feet of line) in 25-35 FOW breaks, with a rattlin rouge crankbait in clown color and a wounded shad colored rapala tail dancer. Varying speed from 1.5 mph to 4 mph. Nothing.
- switched over to the west side of the lake, went into small bays all the way south back to two rivers, got into a lot of trout in each of the bays, but again... I was there for walleye...lol
- trout were average sized, about 18 inches maybe 2.5 lbs or so, nothing to write home about.
- tried to support berkley's claims that gulp outfishes live bait, and for like the 10th time in a row, real nightcrawlers outfished it.

I'm heading out to 7 bays now we'll see if I can do any better maybe the waldos are staging at the bend right now and haven't quite got up to fort spokane yet, that's what i'm hoping for anyway.

Tight lines and heavy nets,

Fowl

MotoBoat

2/21/2011 9:57:00 AM

Nice report. Hope you locate the "waldos". These waldo reports as of late, make a guy that has never fished for them, get a hankerin to do so!

The tug is the drug.

gonefishn

2/21/2011 10:51:00 AM

In years past, I used to catch several 9-12 lb. walleyes fishing the same jig and worm combination in Feb. and March in Porcupine Bay. I was in 14-22 ft. of water towards the Spokane side of the Bay. Not many people fished it then and I have a 31" , 13 lb. mounted on my wall caught there the same way. Another way we used to do well was late at night (midnight) casting plugs around the launch at 7-bays. Lot of big walleyes cruising in there at night. One guy even pulled in a 15+ lber. one time! Try Porcupine Bay With that Chartreuse Jig and a nightcrawler trailing an inch or so behind next to the Spokane side where the bank has all the bird holes in it. Good luck!

Lundegard

2/22/2011 2:36:00 PM

Don't be afraid to go deeper. Even in June in LR, I've found Uncle Wallace at 110 feet. It's all about temperature, which means oxygen, which means food chain.

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