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18 - Lake Roosevelt South End to Spokane Confluence Report
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04/02/2011
Trolling
Rainbow Trout
Worms
Other
Morning
04/02/2011
3
1348

After so many weekends where we couldn't go due to commitments of some kind or other, we finally had an open weekend, so off to Roosevelt we went. The wind forecast was not good, but we had no real issues getting there.

As we headed out of Seven Bays, we ran into the wind and whitecaps. Once we rounded the bend near Lincoln, they settled down and I dropped gear. We started with a pair of Frisky Jenny Trick R Treat streamers as they were bright orane and the water was quite stained and muddy looking. Sent the streamers out 155' on leaded line. On the long line rigs, I sent a Ripn Minnow in silver/orange to the depths and the other had a bright orange Rapala F7. Both went out 225'.

Had first fish on in less the 10 minutes, but to my surprise it was a walleye that ate my streamer! Nice chunky 18" male that weighed 1 1/2lbs.

My wife caught the next one and it was a chunky 16" bow that also ran 1 1/2lbs. We caught 2 more nice bows, one of which was a native. That one was 2lbs, 13ozs the largest for the day.

The wind was the big factor in today's outing. The fishing wasn't fast and furious, but it was consistent. The wind however, forced us to call the day short and is the reason I rated it a "3".

We were on the water 4 hours and had 4 nice fish for our efforts despite difficulty maintaining boat control. Both my ladies were happy to be off the water today. :-)


Comments

The Jigmiester
4/2/2011 4:41:00 PM
Making the ladies happy is sometimes the best thing we guys can do! Great report sir. Jiggy
G-Man
4/2/2011 5:37:00 PM
Gotta love that by-catch. Cold water walleye, mmm good!
Anonymous
4/2/2011 8:52:00 PM
Good to hear you were able to get out fishing , thanks for the report !


Charlie
blufin loui
4/2/2011 10:28:00 PM
Nice mess of fish there. A day on the water, fish for the skillet, and the ladies are happy. You have it made. Thanks for the report and stay safe and well.
hewesfisher
4/3/2011 6:14:00 AM
I'd have stayed out, but Debbie was feeling "green around the gills" as she put it, and poor Amber was trying to dig her claws into the vinyl floor to stay in position. Each trout caught was bigger than the last, so if that would have continued, who knows what we could have ended up with, but, coming in early was the right thing to do.
afk
4/3/2011 8:57:00 AM
Keeping the ladies happy & catching fish. Sounds great. But, it sure would have been fun to keep the, " each one bigger than the last" going.LOL You are a smart man to know when to call it Quits.
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