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19 - Spokane Confluence to Lake Roosevelt North End Report
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01/05/2016
31° - 35°
Bottom Fishing From Shore
Rainbow Trout
Power Bait
Olive
Cloudy
Hook & Bait
Morning
41° - 45°
01/06/2016
3
1546

Roads out of Spokane were really slick - 25 to the bridge was in good shape. Got out of the house to play wintetime
beach bum and see if I can at least catch dinner of a couple of trips/rainbows. Tried everything, powerbait, chartruese,
rainbow and olive/garlic - caught one on each color - a 22" and 2 ea., 15-16". Gave worms a try and all I got were hits
and lots of hooksets, but no hook-ups - also tried cocktail shrimp with anise scent - also lots of hits and no hook-ups.
There were a lot of hard hits on the powerbait, but no hook=up - tried smaller hooks, #8 and #10 and still no more
hook ups. Air temp at 8:00 was 27deg and 2:00 was 35 deg. There was one other fishing in the area and it looked
like he picked up two. The best day fishing is better than ...................


Comments

kevinbe
1/8/2016 11:11:00 PM
That Rosy's a big body, where abouts were you fishing from? Thanks for the info on the baits. I'm all in on the day of fishing is better than...
outtheresomewhere
1/9/2016 7:59:00 AM
Kevinbe, Rosy may be big, but a change in level does affect fish behavior - went again yesterday (1/8) and the lake was down 4-5' from
Tuesday's level and the bite was almost non-existent. There were 4 boats launched at Ft. Spokane, I talked to one of them and they
said the same thing - if we got two fish we were lucky and they were the dinks too - no size to anything I saw caught. I'm out of the SW side
of Spokane, retired and can pretty much go like the cat, when I want, where I want, and try to catch dinner. All fish I saw caught yesterday
from the bank were on powerbait, mostly orange - tried worms and shrimp and all kinds of scent and nothing at all. Hook size is now
down to #12, small wad and only one marshmallow - scent seemed to repel them.
kevinbe
1/11/2016 8:47:00 PM
That's good info. I love bank fishing trout in the winter. I've previously only used worms and mallows, with limited success. I've noticed recently having better success since switching to power bait.
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