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Another trip to Porcupine Bay resulted in 13 Walleyes and 1 Burbot. Wednesday was a gorgeous day weather wise but the fishing was a bit slow. Caught 9 on jigs, 2 on blades and 2 trolling a worm harness. My best fish was 24 in and 5-6 lbs. I took a picture and released her to repopulate the Arm. Take that WDFG, plus who really wants to eat a big walleye, they are not nearly as good as smaller fish. The rest were 1/21, 1/20, 1/19, 3/17 and 1/16 plus 5 dinks. Talked with 3 other boats as I was pulling out and they were all skunked. Most appeared to have gone down river. This should be prime time in the Arm but my guess is the high water is delaying the migration upriver to spawn. Figures we finally have access in April and the fish haven't arrived in any numbers yet.

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Rocky

4/4/2013 7:38:00 PM

Thank you for your report I think you are right on the migration.

downriggeral

4/4/2013 8:20:00 PM

Hi Mark Thanks for the report. Was thinking about going Saturday but the weather report looks a little dicey with wind and the possibility of thunder storms. Walleyes hate thunder storms!
I live at Nine Mile Falls and there is a lot of water coming over the dam right now. It looks pretty good for clarity, not too muddy but I 'm sure the runoff is cold coming out of the mountains in Idaho. Who knows that might be holding up the spawn migration too.

buc

4/5/2013 8:43:00 AM

Nice job mark, Nice to see someone else care about the walleye fishery.

theDrifter

4/5/2013 1:13:00 PM

I'm a transplant to Seattle area from Minnesota and miss walleye fishing fiercely. I have a small (12 ft) boat that is actually pretty wide and am wondering how it would fare on Roosevelt. I'd also like some help on lodging in the immediate vicinity. Any help from my fishing brothers?

Prez

4/6/2013 2:07:00 PM

Drifter, the Porcupine Bay area is actually on the Spokane River. there's a State Park, great launch, and fishing areas not far from launch. Your boat should do fine, and if the wind comes up you can get off the river fairly fast. Davenport is 18 miles from launch, the road is good, and the Black Bear motel is right at the intersection leading to Porcupine Bay. Good Luck on getting your walleye fix!

theDrifter

4/6/2013 4:29:00 PM

Prez: thanks a ton!

theDrifter

4/6/2013 4:35:00 PM

I browsed the Black Bear Motel website and was amused to see that their homepage banner is a picture of 3 grizzlies :)

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