Northwest Fishing Reports

Salmonaddict - Wed May 20, 2020 7:46 am
Me - Wed May 20, 2020 7:46 am

What are the odds?

Per WDFW email alert yesterday... May 19, 2020 Lake Roosevelt white sturgeon fishery Action: Opens a harvest fishery for white sturgeon in Lake Roosevelt. Effective date: Open 7 days per week beginning June 15, 2020 until further notice. Species affected: White Sturgeon Location : From Grand Coulee ...

Sign up for WDFW alerts, will be the best way to know when, or if, they'll open it again this year.

Don’t think of leaded line as fishing super deep. It’s just a matter of how many colors you are running behind the boat. You can keep it fairly shallow. Leaded line will be a more natural presentation. If you are using a mono mainline, and sinkers as you said, and then running line/leader down to f...

WDFW to open some fishing and public lands May 5th - https://wdfw.wa.gov/about/covid-19-updates

Link to public lands "day use" info is on same page under "News".

Go to the main site and search reports under my username to see 5 pages of reports almost all of which involve using trolling flies for rainbow.

When the fun boaters go home after Labor Day.

The state doesn't have the resources to police every body of water in the state so it will happen. I hope those who flaunt the law get the same punishment any poacher would because they are poaching since fishing is closed. Although I strongly disagree with the broad brush closure action, and see no...

Some people are ignoring the closure, talked to a buddy yesterday and at least two bank anglers at Roosevelt, one near Seven Bays, got personal attention from enforcement.

Idiots everywhere, nevermind the statewide closure for C-19.

Let's HOPE it doesn't get extended again.

https://wdfw.wa.gov/about/covid-19-updates Fishing and Shellfishing - Fishing and shellfishing seasons: Beginning at midnight March 25 and lasting until at least 5 p.m. on April 8, WDFW is closing recreational fishing and shellfishing statewide in response to the governor’s order to ‘Stay Home, Stay...

Who knows, splitshot hasn't logged in here since 2011.

Were it not for the pumping station there would be no connection to Banks, in fact, Banks would not exist. I think it quite a stretch to call it the "Banks chain" when the source water is pumped UPHILL from Roosevelt. No dispute on the irrigation project but your claim of it being the "Banks chain" ...

They are ugly and although I wouldn't hesitate to retain a rainbow with a few, I would release any with a heavy infestation simply because that fish would be heavily stressed and unlikely to be good table fare.

They're copepods and nothing to worry about. Usually caused from stress of changing water temperature. See it most frequently in spring, especially if water temps rise quickly.

Mike Carey wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 11, 2020 7:15 am

much longer than that. He stopped communicating with us years ago.

June 2013 was last time he logged in here....

I bought an outdoor fryer so the splatter and odor stay there too. Caught a nice sale on the 2.5gal propane fryer (they make bigger ones too) here last spring. Awesome little unit, restaurant quality in the back yard.

Kudos to Aaron for his hard work resolving the issues.