Hit the Arm on Friday with my buddy Glenn. Started working our way upriver towards buoy 5, occasionally stopping to jig some of our favorite areas. We caught a total of 33 for the day, most were caught jigging but we did pickup a few trolling down river with worm harnesses. After catching a few trolling we would drift and jig the same area but the eyes wouldn't hit the jigs, very much a reaction bite trolling down river with the current at 2-3mph. The majority of our fish were caught in the main channel in strong current. We tried shallow with no luck. We talked to another guy who we saw up shallow and he wasn't catching any eyes, only smallies and trout. Best color was red with a 4in pumpkin worm tipped with half a nightcrawler. Talked with four other boats as we pulled the boat out and most only caught one or two if any eyes, so we did pretty well considering a week earlier we got the big FU when we fished the same areas in the Arm. All the fish we cleaned, the cleaning station is open at Porky, were males (16-18in) except for one (21in) spawned out female.

P.S. It would be nice if this site could include a location listed as the Spokane Arm to better reflect where we are actually fishing. It is one of the most fished areas of Lake Roosevelt.

Kfedka

4/29/2013 10:00:00 PM

Thanks for the report. What depth did you catch the majority of the fish and what time of day was most productive?

CCTMark

4/30/2013 7:34:00 AM

Our best depth seemed to be between 35-40ft or the deepest part of the river channel. Late morning to right before noon was best then the gale force winds started and the bite turned off. Current seemed to be the one thing that really made the fish aggresive.

buc

4/30/2013 8:48:00 AM

Interesting so when you cleaned your fish where they just loaded with kokanee?

CCTMark

4/30/2013 1:24:00 PM

Nothing was found in any of their bellys. Most of the fish we catch out of Roosevelt have nothing in their guts, I guess they have an extremely high metabolism. Although we will find an occasional koke or rainbow in one. I caught one last year in rufus that had a fat 8in rainbow in it and still hit a blade bait, what a pig.

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