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By: Conradlam
Posted: 7/22/2022
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/20/2022
Hot Spots: 0
A few friends and I went down for the annual Brewster sockeye derby. Better known as combat fishing, roller derby, figure eight racing, and the Indianapolis 500 rolled up into one.
We are all chasin...
By: Conradlam
Posted: 7/17/2022
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/15/2022
Hot Spots: 0
A 3 AM start with my friend out of Deer Park, headed north to fish for giant behemoths. Started early in the morning Fishing in 60 feet of water. We moved around several times and finally found a hol...
By: Conradlam
Posted: 5/20/2022
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/20/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Took my brother out on a rare day off (for him). We started fishing about 7am. We netted our first fish shortly afterwards.
We located several schools of fish that filled up our screen.
We hooked 2 ...
By: Conradlam
Posted: 3/17/2022
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/17/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Silver bullets are here again! This was my first Columbia River Kokanee limit in over 2 years. (yes just 2)
They are not in great numbers, nor in just one area. They are scattered and not schooled up...
By: Conradlam
Posted: 1/31/2022
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/31/2022
Hot Spots: 0
We tried a salmon technique for rainbows today. A slow drift over deeper holes using weights to get down quickly. Gently tickling the bottom as we drifted by, created spectacular results.
The larger ...
By: Conradlam
Posted: 1/20/2022
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/20/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Had to get away for a while
Rough water, cool temperatures
Sheepshead on the bite
By: Conradlam
Posted: 12/21/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/21/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Who said you couldn’t fish when the temperature was below freezing? We started at 16° temperatures. Layered up and ready to go. We had to soak our poles in the river just to cast to avoid freezing te...
By: Conradlam
Posted: 11/17/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/17/2021
Hot Spots: 0
19 degrees when I woke up! Not wanting to endanger myself by launching the boat, I decided to fish from shore. Wearing 3 layers and drinking hot liquids I located a spot that would have sun by 9am. I ...
By: Conradlam
Posted: 9/22/2021
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/22/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to stay local and fish Badger lake. Although this lake is smallish it does have some deeper 100’+ sections towards the middle bend. I marked two areas that held schools of fish.
We are appro...
By: Conradlam
Posted: 8/7/2021
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/7/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Finding the Kokanee was the hardest part of our two day trip. We spent all day Friday trolling around the islands looking for schools. The Kokanee are scattered and haven’t schooled up much yet. We d...
By: Conradlam
Posted: 5/25/2021
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/25/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Who said a fisherman had to go to the Columbia river to catch big Kokanee ? North Idaho has several big lakes with extensive Kokanee populations.
The scale says 5.4 lbs! My blue ruler is 24 inches l...
By: Conradlam
Posted: 5/15/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Started my day early so as to avoid the weekend warriors, and the hot sun. Launched at 7am and headed upriver. The fish were scattered but mostly around 15'. I'd catch one, then several hundred yarn...
By: Conradlam
Posted: 5/7/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/7/2021
Hot Spots: 0
From the Spokane area this is approximately a 4 Hour Dr!
We arrived at Wannacut lake at about 8:30 AM and immediately started fishing on the south end. We were catching smaller fish in the 10 to 12 ...
By: Conradlam
Posted: 11/27/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/27/2020
Hot Spots: 0
We fished up the Spokane arm a bit. The fish were scattered not in schools like they were two weeks ago. We would catch one, move a mile catch another one , move a half a mile, catch another one; very...
By: Conradlam
Posted: 10/8/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/6/2020
Hot Spots: 0
We made a plan to target some of the larger Rainbows that this body of water is known for. Our target was elusive, yet we stayed away from the easy fishing, smaller fish close by the net pens. We rea...
By: Conradlam
Posted: 5/24/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/24/2020
Hot Spots: 0
The fish were far and few between. The ones we did catch were fat and well fed.
By: Conradlam
Posted: 3/11/2020
Species: Dolly Varden
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/10/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Caught and released
By: Conradlam
Posted: 2/8/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/7/2020
Hot Spots: 0
We started early, on the water by 8am. The Lincoln launch was snow covered but offered good traction. We headed to Hawk creek to let the ground fog subside and marked nothing. I decided to make the ru...
By: Conradlam
Posted: 7/11/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/10/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Started at 6:30am fishing edges of rock walls over 100’ of water. Red trolling flies seem to attract the heavier fish. We released 5, and kept 2 ea. Off the water about noon as the wind picked up.
By: Conradlam
Posted: 6/21/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/20/2019
Hot Spots: 0
This is actually a two day report for Thursday and Friday. 6-20 & 6-21. We fished Rufus woods on Thursday targeting Kokanee in the morning and walleye mid day. We finished by 1 o’clock due to Highwi...
By: Conradlam
Posted: 4/16/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/15/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Went out past Tum Tum for the delayed opening of the Lake Spokane boat launch. We got a late start as we spent our first half hour removing floating trees, driftwood and flotsam blocking the launch. ...
By: Conradlam
Posted: 2/1/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/31/2019
Hot Spots: 0
We timed our arrival to coincide with the predicted 32 degree temps. (9am) Foggy weather and a great horned owl greeted us on approach. It was 27 degrees when we launched our 16' Hewescraft. The win...
By: Conradlam
Posted: 1/6/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/5/2019
Hot Spots: 0
First off, would like to thank Bonanzamel, Partime, and others for posting reports that encourage others to follow their steps. Thanks fellas!
We launched at Ft. Spokane around 8:30 am and headed ...
By: Conradlam
Posted: 4/1/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water early after reading the latest reports. We headed up lake from the Honeysuckle launch. This launch is under water with all the recent rains and snow melt. Come prepared with 14" boots...
By: Conradlam
Posted: 7/15/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/14/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We launched from Keller at 7am and headed upriver in search of those silver Monstas. We motored up almost to White Rock and fished our way south. Jones Bay offered no bites. Continuing downriver, we h...