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18 - Lake Roosevelt South End to Spokane Confluence Fishing Reports

By: catchme
Posted: 4/3/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/31/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Well it's been awhile, but we dusted off the " Ole Sunbeam " and got her belly wet. Beautiful day, no wind to speak of. Launched out of Spring Canyon and headed up to Swawilla. Fished from about 9 am ...
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Posted: 3/27/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/23/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Brother Ron and I fished Saturday and all the years we have fished Roosevelt I can honestly say this was the worst day fishing we ever had. We put in at the Lincoln launch at daylight and went toward...
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By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 3/25/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/23/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I know others have landed more fish in a day and rated their trips lower than a 5 but I'm giving this day a 5 because we finally located some fish and the weather was amazing, FINALLY! The Packernut...
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By: dlantis
Posted: 3/25/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/23/2019
Hot Spots: 0
What a strange trip this turned out to be. We had heard no reports of people fishing in the Keller Ferry area so we were skeptical. We left Yakima at 3:30 AM and launched the boat at Keller Ferry ab...
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By: Froggie
Posted: 3/24/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/20/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at Spring Canyon with my hubby, Ben & our dog, Daegan. We broke thru a few sheets of ice while trolling around Plum Pt and across to the cliffs. Only marked a few fish, saw a few other boats,...
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Posted: 3/24/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/23/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Targeted Kokanee a little further upriver than usual. The rainbows were around but not in the typical high numbers.
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By: buc
Posted: 3/15/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/14/2019
Hot Spots: 1
cold and windy, stuck with it main lake flats w/ jigs 50+ft...
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By: buc
Posted: 2/19/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/19/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Beatdown - again w/Jig's main lake.
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By: CCTMark
Posted: 2/4/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/2/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Almost the same results as last week. Fished the same areas using the same jigs/colors. We did have to work a bit harder this weekend; the bite was slower and you had to basically drag your jig in ord...
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By: Waderjs
Posted: 2/3/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/2/2019
Hot Spots: 0
2 of us launched out of Spring Canyon and noticed right away the water level had risen since our last trip (which surprised me, since February usually means even lower water levels). That rising wate...
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Posted: 2/1/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/31/2019
Hot Spots: 0
We fished out of Spring Canyon. I had 4 rods setup with planer boards and one downrigger rod. I caught several fish on the downrigger set between 10-14ft. I ran 3/8oz lead on the planer boards to keep...
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By: mcgregor
Posted: 1/30/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/29/2019
Hot Spots: 1
Launched at Keller Ferry late morning trolled south, Caught one rainbow right away then nothing the rest of the day. I did not expect to get to many rainbows for the gear being ran and as slow as I wa...
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By: buc
Posted: 1/25/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/25/2019
Hot Spots: 0
winter walleye beatdown as usual , usual suspects ...
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By: Part-Time
Posted: 1/25/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/25/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Skunked again, seem to be on a roll here. Launched at Keller, fishing by 8:30 from Keller down to the South Wall, across to the shallows, down to Swalilla then back up to Covington Bay. No Bites. Pret...
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Posted: 1/23/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/19/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Yeah, I'm rating it a 1 because, for the first time in I forget how long, we got skunked. Nada. Zero. One takedown about 2hrs in but nothing more. On the bright side, water was calm, we spent half ...
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By: Waderjs
Posted: 1/23/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/21/2019
Hot Spots: 1
Arrived at Spring Canyon launch about 0800 Monday-surprised to find that we were the first boat there. Motored up-river just past Swawilla Basin where we found fish last week. It was breezy with water...
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By: CCTMark
Posted: 1/23/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/21/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Took a couple of my normal fishing buddies out on MLK day and caught buckets O fish, literally. When we emptied my livewell at the end of the day we had 2 five gallon buckets full of eyes and had to g...
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Posted: 1/22/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/20/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Took my son and a friend to find a few walleye. We launched at Ft. Spokane about 1pm. We went up and fished around the island till dark and managed to land a few walleye and a burbot. Only got 2 walle...
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Posted: 1/21/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/21/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at Keller about 10am. Trolled the bays downriver for an hour. Nada. Zip. Went up river to Jones Beach area. Found a few bites but not consistent and had difficulty boating the few we ho...
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By: Waderjs
Posted: 1/13/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/12/2019
Hot Spots: 2
Made the foggy trip to Spring Canyon Saturday. Lots of boats at the ramp. 2 of us motored up-river and started the day fishing in the narrows between Swawilla basin and Keller Ferry. Trolled the south...
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Posted: 1/7/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/5/2019
Hot Spots: 0
The good weather presented a nice opportunity to get out with my daughter and a buddy to test out some upgrades to the boat. Despite our late start, we got on fish right away. The first spot we tried ...
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Posted: 1/6/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/6/2019
Hot Spots: 1
We arrived at the launch at Keller at 7:15 and headed out and got our lines in the water. The first three fish came pretty quickly and were all 12 inch kokanee. The next strike came on the sidewinder ...
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By: Part-Time
Posted: 1/3/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/1/2019
Hot Spots: 0
This report actually covers 12/31/18 thru 1/2/19. We tried Banks Lake on the last day of the year with out much success. We were going to try for whitefish but stories at the launch site said their b...
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By: Waderjs
Posted: 1/1/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/1/2019
Hot Spots: 1
We launched at Lincoln this morning (yes, the Roosevelt ramps are still open despite the partial government shutdown). Not many people out today but it was a beautiful, cool & calm day. It was 24 de...
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By: Part-Time
Posted: 12/23/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/21/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Well we set the special sea and anchor detail at Lincoln around 8:15 and slipped our lines and headed out of port about 20 minutes later. We went downstream to A Rock and started getting lines out. H...
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