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This is a report for the last week ( 4 trips out total, averaging 2-3 hrs). Here's the lowdown, water is now down to about 66 degrees. Trout starting to average 12-13 inches, these are the triploids that were 6-7 inches in june that avista had planted. Picked up a few smallmouth about 12 inches on sat. A limit of trout on Friday and almost 2 limits on sat. A few perch starting to bite, but it has not taken off yet. This is all a trolling show with shad raps, cotton cordell mostly in perch patterns. Trolling outside weed edges in sportsman cove about 1.5 to 2 mph. The big surprise was catching 1 walleye each on two of my trips last week, a 14 inch and a 17 inch. I know for a fact that 4 other walleye have been caught by other people this summer, they averaged 11 inches to 7 lbs. Weird that I haven't changed my fishing tactics and all of a sudden I'm catching walleye that supposedly don't exist. The other dynamic is their size is all over the place. My pics are on my phone and i'll get them posted to prove the walleye, might take another posting involving emails etc, I'm still getting the hang of this technology stuff. I'd rather fish than play with electronics. The trout are starting to turn some orange but not up to roosevelts standard yet. Normally when the lake cools I catch a lot of 3/4 pound to 1 pound perch with squaws and a few bass mixed in. I save the squaws for crab bait and there doesn't seem to be quite as many as there used to be. The bite is very slow from about 1230 to 2 pm, unfortunately that seems to be part of my time on the lake. ok phone is dead I will post photos tomorrow because I too have heard "reports of walley caught on long lake".

MattG

9/22/2014 6:05:00 PM

Just to be clear, is this also know as Lake Spokane by Tum Tum and nine mile falls area? or up in northern Stevens Co.
I have heard of guys pulling Walleye out of their also.
Thanks for any feed back.

the thumb

9/22/2014 8:45:00 PM

yeah lake Spokane between Spokane and stevens county, tum tum is about the middle of the lake. I'm fishing closer to suncrest in the big bay off the big farming field on the Spokane county side. It takes a bit to find the weed edges and I'm not talking about the weeds you see. The submerged weeds can go out 100 yards or more and there is a row of submerged tree stumps quite a ways off shore. It is a go to for the fall for me. it's only about a 4 or 5 mile run from the house and is great in the fall. The walleye is definitely a new catch on some sort of irregular basis. The pilke population has also exploded this year also. Good thing the trout were planted so we can fatten up these great warmwater species. I will admit I will keep pike in particular to help keep the migration into the Columbia river. I like to catch salmon also and help avoid all the crazy about saving the salmon( I hope to live long enough to see fish ladders into Roosevelt). It will be interesting to see the direction the lake is heading. Sorry about the confusion I didn't know there was a long lake in north stevens county.

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