Mike and I launched out of Ft Spokane after a sketchy drive on icy/snowy roads from Spokane. We headed out onto the main lake in hopes of getting in 7-8 hours of casting practice. At our first stop, a rocky hump, Mike's practice was rudely interrupted in the first 10 minutes by two juvenile delinquent walleyes (16 & 16.5"). They both hit his glow jighead with a Mardi Gras grub. They were both told they would pay for their insolence and were placed in the livewell to be dealt with later. Mike had the rest of the day to practice casting uninterrupted.

My own practice was interrupted after 30 minutes by a punk smalleye, 13", who hit my red jighead with a green/red flake swimbait. I gave him a stern talking to about ruining my casting practice and sent him on his way. As soon as I released him an eagle in a nearby tree scolded me for not letting him have the chance to take that punk out for a quick bite to eat. I had another five hours of uninterrupted casting practice as we went up and down the river as well as the Arm. My practice was interrupted for a second time by an 18" interloper who hit the same jig as the earlier one. I looked him straight in the marble eyes and told him he had a date with my air fryer for his attempted thievery of my jig. Into the livewell he went.

Mike and I practiced our casting for anther two hours without any further interruptions. The water temp in the main lake was 39.7 and up the Arm was 42. Porcupine Bay was clear but starting at the first narrows and all the way up past buoy 5 the Arm is very muddy with less than a foot of visibilty. This winter is turning out to be pretty tough for catching numbers of walleyes. All three fish I cleaned were males with sperm sacks that were about half way developed.

Part-Time

1/18/2021 6:41:24 PM

Dang, you must be developing one heck of an arm with all that casting. Being of the lazy low life type I spend the day trolling on Saturday and had 2 takedowns that didn't stick long enough for anyone to get up and hook them. The morale of this story is it's a bit slow in the rainbow world also.

tqfinctv

1/20/2021 7:25:22 AM

Great story!

hewesfisher

1/21/2021 7:10:31 AM

Nice change of pace. :-)

walleyemark

1/21/2021 9:42:16 AM

I obviously had plenty of time in which to formulate this fishing report. Everyone we talked to at the ramp had a similar outing; didn't matter if they were fishing for eyes or trout. I am blaming the lack of productivity as a hangover effect from 2020. It can and will improve over the next several months. Hopefully this year our idiot governor doesn't close down our social distancing during the best part of the year.

Part-Time

1/22/2021 8:14:23 AM

A lady told me the fish weren't biting because the governor had ordered them to stay home, wear a mask and not congregate in large groups. Maybe he can talk to fish, I see some similarities.

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