This report is a few days late and Saturday was pretty cold; we had to continuously chip the ice out of our rod guides.
Launched out of Ft Spokane with my buddy in his Lund and headed out to the main river because the Arm is extremely muddy with visibility of maybe a foot. We tried various spots; across from 7 Bays all the way up to Wilamont creek. The bite was better in the morning; we had our best luck anchoring up and casting jigs to humps in 35-45 FOW. Black and red headed jigs with anything pumpkin or green pumpkin produced the most results. If it had a chartreuse tail all the better. We ended up keeping 28 eyes between 15 and 21 inches plus one 2# smallie. We had enough fillets to fill 2 1/2 gallon Ziploc bags so it was a pretty good day to be on the water. I initially thought the increased catch limit would be a bad thing but the quality of the fish coming out of Roosevelt has definitely increased, no more skinny and transparent eyes to be caught.

YJ Guide Service

2/15/2018 7:07:04 AM

good job guys way to put the fish in the boat....see you out there soon..

Part-Time

2/15/2018 9:14:35 AM

Thanks for a great report, the weather being the way it is I need all the encouragement I can get.

downriggeral

2/21/2018 9:05:44 AM

Good to see you got out Mark, thanks for the report. Wanted to go last weekend but we all know what the weather did! We'll see what happens this weekend. Tight lines - Alan

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