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18 - Lake Roosevelt South End to Spokane Confluence Report
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02/19/2017
31° - 35°
Bottom Fishing From Shore
Rainbow Trout
Power Bait
Rainbow
Raining
Hook & Bait
Morning
Under 40°
02/20/2017
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2865

We headed for Lake Roosevelt very early Sunday morning, encountered heave fog and freezing temperatures most of the way from Yakima. Took a little longer than normal to make the trip. Started bank fishing near Spring Canyon boat launch about 7 AM. Boats were lined up in the parking lot waiting for someone to break the ice to get out into the main lake. Four of us fished from 7 until about 2:30 and picked up 11 nice rainbows. Two were over 19 inches and a couple were well over 17 inches. Caught them on various color Power Bait. We caught about one fish for every 3 or 4 bites, we fed them well. Color didn't seem to matter. Rained a little, snowed a little and was cold but it was good to be out of the house.

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Lambojac
2/20/2017 7:07:00 PM
Good to see that the fish are biting good down there. We are planning a camping trip down there sometime in March. The trout fishing really goes to crap once they start lowering the river here up north in Colville. Thanks for the report!
dlantis
2/21/2017 9:08:00 AM
Lambojac the water level is extremely high at Spring Canyon for this time of year and we noticed the bite nearly stopped about 10 AM when we saw the water level start to drop.
hewesfisher
2/22/2017 8:46:00 AM
Reservoir level has dropped almost 1.5' since 10am last Sunday. Current lake level info, and projected levels, can be found here at this link (copy and paste to your browser) - http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/river.php?wfo=OTX&wfoid=18722&riverid=204540&pt%5B%5D=144992&allpoints=144991%2C144992%2C145035%2C145041%2C145048%2C145051%2C145270%2C143450%2C150895%2C146745&data%5B%5D=all
dlantis
2/22/2017 10:48:00 AM
Thanks for the water level info hewesfisher.
jbball50
2/23/2017 1:19:00 PM
How are the roads to get to these bank fishing spots along lake Roosevelt? Are they good enough to get down on with a car or would a truck be more advisable? I was just wondering because if the roads are okay I'll probably just drive my car instead of my friend wasting gas with his truck.
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