My job took me to Spokane for 3 days and I got a chance to fish both Lake Eloika and Lake Newman for a couple hours each day at dusk.

Sunday night 7/19 at Lake Eloika I launched at Jerry's Resort ($3.00) because the public launch is closed/under construction. Hit the water at about 7:30 and immediately got hits from surface feeding crappie. They were everywhere, and I got 5 to hit my weightless black rubber worm that I would swim slowly across the top of the weeds (which are everywhere). I rigged my worm with a smaller exposed hook, not Texas rigged. I got some weeds, but my strikes usually resulted in hook-ups. The crappies were incredible, 12-14 inches, fat/healthy, and all released gently. What a blast for the 2 hours I was there, definitely worth the 3 bucks...thanks Jerry's Resort.

Lake Newman at dusk on Monday 7/20 was also fun. I got many hits, but only 3 hook-ups in the 2 hours I spent there. Many small fish pecking away at my worm. But I did manage to get 3 largemouth bass, one was about 2 pounds, the others a pound each. All three were caught around docks on rubber worms. I talked to some nice people as I worked my way around the edges in my tiny boat...what a beautiful place is Lake Newman, and cool people live there too!

Wish I could report more, but I really did not have a lot of time to fish...but since I went that far I just had to sample these awesome fishing lakes.

Hawgs On

7/24/2009 6:19:00 AM

I uploaded photos for this report, but for some reason they aren't posted here.

BMGW

7/24/2009 10:37:00 PM

Email admin and they will download them for you.. Great job on the Crappie! I just talked to my dad back in Int'l Falls Mn the other day and they boated two black Crappie over 3 #! They have been doing something back there I think if we do will get the same results: During winter they make and haul out onto the ice in chosen locations "Crappie Cribs" that are made from the local willow and weighted down so come Ice Out they sink and the Crappie use these locations to spawn and the cribs help keep the predators from getting the young, after a few years time the cribs disintegrate and the numbers of Crappie are up dramatically. That and the slot limits have helped to create what I think has become the best Crappie fishery in the US. My wife won a fishing derby a few years back by entering a 4.79# crappie that took first place for the entire month of July... I think we can get there too if we engage in these tactics.

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