We spent 4 days at Roosevelt and stayed at the RV Park at Two Rivers and launched the boat there as well. For once the river was high enough to put in at the marina.

We went up the Spokane Arm for the first day and roasted ourselves while jigging for walleye. A bunch of dinks and nothing worthy of mention. I suppose 6" to 10" walleye are better than nothing, but barely considering the intense heat we had to deal with. Our boat even has a hard top and it was still steamy. Chartreuse seemed to be the color of favor with black lead heads.

The second day we trolled using 'riggers for 'bows down river between 7 Bays and Hawk Creek at a depth of 40' or so depending on where we marked the fish on the finder. Used Kekeda (orange) and Kekeda perch flies and picked up one small 'bow in 2 hours so we moved up river to Abraham Cove by marker 12.

It was like night and day! We ditched the 'riggers and two of us had 4 rods out and we were using the same Kekeda flies but this time we had two rods set up using David Browning's new Kekeda pink and chartreuse flies with brass beads and smile blades. In front of the terminal tackle about 30" we had brass flashers with a 1oz banana weight 40" in front of the flasher. We were hitting fish right and left between 20 and 35' at 1.7MPH. At one point, we had 3 fish on! They weren't large at 12 to 16", but they were there in numbers. We caught and released at least 30 fish in the second day and we only fished for 6 hours between about 8AM and 2PM. At that point, it was just too hot to be any fun so we took the boat upriver to Gifford to look at a piece of property.

The next two days were very similar; same tackle, same depth, same location. We made big circles from 200 yards south of market 12 to about 200 yards north of marker 12. I'm embarrassed to say that I actually lost a rod out of a rod holder when something of size hit the fly and drug the rod into the water before I could grab it. Let that be lesson for being lazy and not locking the rod in place.

I would've give the trip a 5 but the heat was really intense.

Kudos to David Browning at Kekeda Tackle for rushing my fly order and getting it my hands in time for the trip. They did the trick!