We set out Saturday morning with Ron, Ed, and brother in law Dan to see if we could catch some of those channel cats we have seen reports on. We launched at the mouth of the Palouse on the Snake and ran up the Palouse in search of the mighty mud cats. The first thing we discovered as we got upriver is there is very little depth to the water on the Palouse delta! Got below 2' QUICK!! YIKES.... Saw some other boats fishing so we dropped the anchor and proceeded to fish chicken liver, salted herring, cut bait, worms....you get the picture, all the "catfish" stuff. No bites; zero zip nada.

We watched the other boats traverse the shallow water and decided to move and see if we could change positions. Went up the left side of the bay headed up river and found the water depth was passable. Got back out among the other boats and started fishing again. Only saw a couple or three caught. Finally Dan's rod went off at 5:30 PM and he was rewarded with a fine 10# channel cat.

The best part of the day....all of the entertainment from boats getting stuck in the mud! One guy in a bass boat put out a 50' high plume of water and mud trying to get unstuck! Then there was the 20' Hewes Sea Runner that thought he could get across by flying down the river full speed...yep he got stuck in the mud too! What great entertainment we had for the afternoon.

All in all a great spring day on the water with friends and even one nice catfish in the box.

Tight lines - Alan
"The Experiment Must Continue"