Great report. Glad to hear you made it out Ron. it was good to see you the other day. the Prickly Pair is up and running now.. only took a year, Roosevelt is next on the list of things to do. I owe somebody a trip down there also.
Thanks for the report.

Two Brothers: Sounded like a good time was had by all. Where were you and would you share some details on your approach?

SnoKing

Two Brothers: Sorry, I missed the first report....so you were down south of Lincoln. It appears the fish may be a bit shallower than they are further north up around the confluence. From what I understand, success gets better when the water temps drop and that makes sense. This is my first year fishing Roosevelt and it's really a different fishery when you consider the water level differentials and the impact on the feeding, water temps, air temps, and throw in the barometer drops.

Interesting to hear they were on top, I'd have expected them to be a bit deeper yet as surface temps are still a little warm. One "general rule", water level tip, falling levels = good fishing, rising levels = poor fishing (usually). That said, I've had good success with rising levels of a foot or so, but not when level is rising that much, or more, per day.

Thanks for the additional details! :-)

hewesfisher--- At first we also expected to find them deeper also, but the bite started right off on top so thats where we stayed. Also there was several + fish that were jumping out of the water, which we don't see that often also. Strange ? A lot of the fish landed came from fishing the "Rip" Line " or debris line which we often troll through and along side of. I believe your water level tip, but also feel that after two or more weeks of falling levels we find ourselves fishing closer towards the dam, as the current pulls the plankton along with fish in tow. Thanks Hewesfisher for bringing that up. It seem's the older we get the more scientific we try to make this simple art of catching fish into something complicated. Good Fishing---Ron ( two brothers #1 )

Ron: Hello. Thanks for the great report. I thourally enjoyed reading it. I am trying to get over to Lake Roosevelt soon, but I've never fished it before. I was hoping you might be willing to share any info. about what color of kekeda flies might work over there, or any other type of fly or lures that I might be sucessful with, approximate areas that I might try, right time to be out there fishing, whether or not to use a downrigger to get down to a given depth, or just using a particular size of bananna weight, distance behind the boat ect. or any other suggestion you might be willing to share. I do pretty well over here for fall kings, but I refuse to compete with all the gillnets that have been on the Columbia this fall, so I'm considering switching over to fishing at Roosevelt. But it's about a 6 hour drive one way for me to get there. So it would be nice to have some pointers to get me headed in the right direction. I hope to become a decent Roosevelt Lake fisherman. Any help would be very much appreciated. You can e-mail me at whalendenton@gmail.com if you'd prefer. Thanks again.
Denny

Denny - Not to speak for Ron, but best Kekeda choices, IMO, would be perch, orange/black, and pink. No need to get crazy with setups, leaded line out 150' - 155' will do the trick. If you've got 2 rod endorsement, you can run two leaded line rigs, or one each leaded line & mono. On mono, I've had good success using Rip'n Minnows in perch as well as jointed Rapala's in same color pattern. Check my reports for more setup and location info, I don't leave anything out. :-)