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My wife and I returned to Roosevelt on the 18th and 19th and stayed once again at the Two Rivers RV park; great place to locate with the marina only steps away from the RV.

The weather was decent with a partly cloudy sky and 78 degrees on Wednesday night when we got there and then mostly sunny on Thursday with 80 degrees with a strong wind building toward the end of the day reaching 20 mph from the SSW at around 4PM. Water temps had dropped to about 69 to 71 since we had been there two weeks prior. 10' down the water temps were still hovering around 58 although up the Spokane arm the water temp was up at 63 10' down, mid channel.

We hit the water about 8AM and went directly back to split rock and trolled out about 100 yards out along the shelf where the depth drops off to 160'. We followed the shelf closely and used two lead line back 5 to 7 colors rigged with an orange kekeda fly on one rig and a frisky jenny halloween on the other both with 6" chrome flashers. After spending the first hour boating only one modest 'bow of 12", we shifted to chartreuse and blue double whammies tipped with worm and immediately took a 22" 'bow followed 20 minutes later with a 21" and a 16". All were measured, weighed and released. They were probably the fattest 'bows I've seen for their size and the 21" came in at 3lbs 6 oz..

By 11AM things dropped off so we decided to shift gears and head up the Spokane Arm and try our luck with the walleye and my new weapon which is a home made bottom bouncer that has a vertical rod measuring 24" along with 2oz of weight. We trolled up along the cemetery just off the weeds along the mud lines that were stirred up by the wind. We used a couple home made chartreuse blades w/chartreuse beads on mono and had a great time with results although we only boated one over 16".

Friday was spent first back up at split rock with a few 14' to 16" 'bows, same lead line, same approach although Friday we had our success on the orange/black kekeda and frisky jenny halloween flies. Almost set your clock to the bit dropping off so down we went to Hawk Creek to see about the rumored walleye bonanza back up at the mouth of the canyon.

We drifted and jigged with a variety of colors etc., but could only seem to entice a few dinks. We then switched over to the bottom bouncers and home made double whammies and boated/released maybe 6 or 8 in 2 hours. Nothing exciting or special.

Something of interest for the kokanee crowd; Friday night after dinner we did some recon work up the arm and marked huge numbers of what we think were silvers across the bay and a bit down river from the cemetery and lying mid channel. When I say huge numbers I mean they were concentrated to the point where you could walk across their backs! They were deep at 100' and only mid channel. I mentioned this to one of the guys who lives on a houseboat there at the marina and is an avid silver fisherman and he explained that they are forming up just in front of the spawn which I guess make sense.

We'll return in late October and spend a week or so depending on the weather; I'm already looking forward to it.

Kekedatackleco

9/21/2014 8:53:00 PM

Thanks for the report! Really glad to not see a picture like last time with the hooks. Really good info for guys heading down there. Thank you for keeping us informed. I guess even the trout get into the Halloween festivities by looking forward to those orange and black flies. Sounds like a great time.

hewesfisher

9/22/2014 7:30:00 AM

Nice report SnoKing and like Dave mentioned so much better to see hooks catching fish this time. ;-)

I've seen kokanee stacked up in the arm before too, and it's an impressive return on sonar. We will be up late October too, so will watch for your boat. :-)

strikezone

10/20/2014 9:59:00 PM

SnoKing_ Hi. I'm a newbee this year at fishing Roosevelt. We hope to come over for our first time around Thanksgiving if the weather is decent. I read your post about using chartruse and blue double whamys tipped with a worm, but I'm not sure if the lure was chartruse on one side and blue on the other? I looked at Mac's lures and they show a nickle bladed double whamy with blue beads below it, and also a chartruse/rainbow colored blade with a couple differen't bead colors below it? I'm confused about what you are talking about for sure. Would you mind clarifying it for me? Thanks.
Denny

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