Tough fishing. Had all the potential for the makings of a great day. Sunny. No wind. only problem was the fish didnt cooporate. We got to the launch at Kettle at 8:00. we ran down to the collvile river mouth and picked up a 19" eye early on a chartruesse blade casting towards shore and jigging it back towards the boat. He got another hit on the same thing 10minutes or so later. That was it for the eyes for the rest of the day. I picked up a burbot further in towards the collville. 2fish in the boat in 2hous caused us to move down the lake to another spot. nothing doing there, so we moved up the lake and fished a huge hump outside of the big bay above the bridge. No bites. we were finding great spots with lots of structure and depth changes, but we just weren't marking many fish. By 1, we moved up to the kettle river. Here we found many fish,alas, but in an hour of fishing,couldn't manage a bite. the water temp in the kettle was 4 degrees less at 32deg., so maybe that was it. we tried real hard,fished everything we had, but couldn't figure them out today.

mtngrizz

2/21/2015 8:36:00 PM

I recently worked the Colville River area to Lake Roosevelt with absolutely zero fish. Was looking for Burbot with one rod and Walleye with the other. Zero action for three hours all over this area. I've had success there many times in the past especially for Walleye and Rainbows but not recently. Looks like the bite is stale of late. Going back next Tuesday, will give it another go. Thanks for the report. Good Luck next time.

kevinbe

2/22/2015 9:16:00 AM

Mtngrizz: we spent 2 hrs working down the north shoreline towards the highway at the mouth of the Colville. We got 1 eye and 1burbot, both at the 20-30 fow. Hindsight, maybe we shouldn't have left, as we did not get another bite the rest of the day. I would've maybe moved in further up the river to see if they're inside more. I hope you find em.

ridgeratt

2/22/2015 7:22:00 PM

I came back this afternoon and only saw 1 boat working the flats in singer bay and it was almost mid river.

ridgeratt

2/22/2015 7:23:00 PM

I came back this afternoon and only saw 1 boat working the flats in singer bay and it was almost mid river.
No sign of any one south of the 395 bridge along the bank.

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