On Saturday morning we made the drive from Spokane to the Lincoln boat ramp. The drive wasn’t too much of a white knuckler due to De-Icer being heavily applied to all of the roads except for the last 5 miles from Highway 2 to Lincoln. Not the best stuff to get on your aluminum boat, but it beats jack-knifing into the ditch or worse. We put in a little after 8:00, motored down to the Goat Farm, and had lines in the water just after 8:45. My buddy and his son were with me. With 2-pole permits we were able to troll 5 lines. We had 3 lead-core setups with rapalas out about 150’ and 2 mono setups with perch trolling files on the surface out about 250’. We would have limited out before noon if we hadn’t lost so many fish! For every fish we caught, we lost 3. There were super vicious takedowns, then nothing, again and again. It was worse than fishing for kokanee. The HOT lure of the day was the perch fly. Its strikes outnumbered the rapalas by 2 to 1. The action was pretty steady throughout the day; I don’t think we went more than 20 minutes without a hit. Of course, the hottest times were during snow squalls when the wind picked up. The fish came in groups and we doubled up 4 times. You can imagine the pandemonium with 2 fish on and 3 more lines in the water. We did lose a few during those hectic times. Finally, at 3:00 we landed our 15th rainbow.

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