My my younger brother Ken was here from the west side for the weekend so I hustled him up to Lake Roosevelt for an afternoon's fishing. We launched about 1:30 and went to one of my favorite spots near Split Rock. I had one rod rigged with a perch pattern Rip'n Minnow and rigged the other with a perch pattern Frisky Jenny fly tipped with half a worm.

No sooner than I set the fly rigged rod in the holder it was FIsh On and my brother boated the one he's holding in the picture. We hadn't even been there 5 minutes! So, I re-rigged the rod while he piloted the boat, and started cleaning the first fish when, BAM, another one hits the fly rigged rod. A short battle and another nice trout in the boat. We repeat the process again, and another one takes the bait. 3 nice rainbows in less than 15 minutes!!! At this point I decide to re-rig the other rod since nothing had touched the Rip'n Minnow, and put another perch pattern Friskly Jenny fly on it, well, I tried too, but we couldn't keep the rainbows off the other rod long enough for me to get it in the water.

We had a blast! Ken and I even doubled up on his last trout. After that, he piloted the boat while I fished off two rods (I have the 2-rod permit). It wasn't long before I had my limit in the boat, and in less than 2 hours, we had 2 limits of nice fat rainbows in the cooler! My brother said it was the first time he's been out where it wasn't fishing, it was catching!!! ;-)

We finished the day with a 2-hour boat ride/tour before heading in. A perfect finish to a great day!!!

We were trolling with leaded line, out 155'. I forget the speed, but it was somewhere around 2 - 2.3mph. I used some R-Fly attractant on the flies every so often, but it really didn't matter. The 'bows are on the feed big time right now, and you almost

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