It was a cold and miserable day. Glenn launched out of Ft Spokane and we headed out to the main Columbia River. We spent a lot of time near outhouse flats and across from 7 Bays. Early on Glenn was having success with a blade bait and I was picking up some eyes using a hyper rattle. We were both using the same colors, chartreuse with orange highlights. When that bite died we switched to jigs. We both had the best success with a black jig head but Glenn was using an avocado red flake swimbait and I was using a chartreuse grub with gold flakes. 3/4 of the eyes were just weight when we picked up our baits off the bottom. The others actually were classic walleye tics. We caught 25 eyes and cleaned 24. We also caught 8 small burbot and released them all. We worked everything slow and would often let our lures sit for a few seconds before jigging them. We also caught a few by doing a random fast jig that got a couple of followers to hit. Wet and miserable but our expensive 100 mph gortex kept us dry.


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