Question on Kokanee fishing on Roosevelt

[mschulman]

Hi all,

Went out this past Friday looking for Kokanee. Launched out of Fort Spokane and went left to where the rivers merge and saw nothing on the finder, so I then turned around and headed past the launch and up river. Saw some fish on the finders in 100 ft of water at about 40 feet, but only thing I caught was a Walleye. I am pretty new to Roosevelt, but keep hearing the Spokane arm mentioned a lot. When I went up river I thought that was the place but not sure. Was I just having a bad day or was I not in the Spokane arm? Any help would be great. thanks

[Hunter757]

Welcome to NWFR, I have only fished that area once. But after reading all the reports they are catching them around Keller ferry area and then out of Spring Canyon launch. There are a few video's on you tube as well. Good luck!!

[hewesbob]

mschulman welcome to the area. Most folks are fishing just above Grand Coulee Dam at a great place called Spring Canyon. It's about an hour and a half or so from Spokane. Along with all the great information on this site you can also check out Wenatchee Fishermans Forum on Facebook, it's just a bunch of folks from the Wenatchee area that share their fishing stories and they have been doing great on Kokes both at Spring Canyon and Lake Chelan. Tight lines my friend

[surfj9009]

Can somebody recommend a good internet source or two to find weather forecasts for spring canyon area or the spokane arm? We're new to the area too, just moved to spokane. We've been planning on heading over this coming weekend.

[hewesfisher]

Hi all,

Went out this past Friday looking for Kokanee. Launched out of Fort Spokane and went left to where the rivers merge and saw nothing on the finder, so I then turned around and headed past the launch and up river. Saw some fish on the finders in 100 ft of water at about 40 feet, but only thing I caught was a Walleye. I am pretty new to Roosevelt, but keep hearing the Spokane arm mentioned a lot. When I went up river I thought that was the place but not sure. Was I just having a bad day or was I not in the Spokane arm? Any help would be great. thanks

You were fishing in the "arm" which is defined as the SR25 bridge upstream to 400' below Little Falls dam. You launched in the arm and left it once you went under the bridge.

As mentioned, the best kokanee fishing is downstream. From Ft. Spokane it's about a 75 minute boat ride to Spring Canyon if running 35mph and maybe 50 - 55 minutes to Keller Ferry. There are rainbow in the arm, and probably some kokanee too, but the arm isn't known as a hot kokanee spot. Best to launch at Spring Canyon, lot shorter boat ride that way.