Headed to Two Rivers with my wife's cousin and his 10 year old son for some "first time" burbot fishing. Went to launch our boat but with the low water levels, ended up launching at Fort Spokane. Once at the marina, started fishing for burbot around the net pens. By 10:30, we had 3 burbot, and the kid brought in the first two!! We fished until 1:30 AM and ended up with 8 nice burbot. Only one was too small to get any nice meat off of so we released number 9.

Next morning we headed up to Split Rock anticipating a great day of trout fishing. We fished until noon and it was far from great. 4 hours and only 2 fish. It's not every day the burbot fishing will out fish the trout. That evening I was joined by another friend to fish more night burbot. He was excited to repeat last night's action. Not so much. We ended up with two very nice burbot by 10:30PM and then nothing. I ran out of gas and crashed so we could get and early start for more burbot fun up the Spokane Arm.

We motored up to buoy 5 in anticipation of many burbot and walleye in the boat. We caught 2 burbot and no walleye. Long boat ride for very few fish. I hope others has better luck. It was fun to fish up there for the first time but hope next time the fishing will be more productive.

Burbot baits that worked the best were brined herring with crawdad oil. A few were caught on various jig heads and worms but the herring out fished everything. The four burbot pictured were Saturday night and Sunday morning's effort. Tight lines.

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