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18 - Lake Roosevelt South End to Spokane Confluence Fishing Reports
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By: OGFboat
Posted: 7/1/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/30/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The kids and I got out yesterday morning for some summer time fishing. I'd been reading about some good Kokanee fishing going on at Roosevelt, and was hoping to get in on that, but Rainbows would be t...
By: widebear
Posted: 6/4/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The wife and I launched at Keller and had lines in the water by 9am. Started at Swawilla and stayed there. Started off with Orange kekeda with orange /black tiger stripe smiley blade on one rigger, pi...
By: widebear
Posted: 7/6/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/6/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I've been camping at Keller for last 2 weeks and Kok fishing has been mostly good. Only 2 days without limits (2nd and 3rd) Moved out of Swawilla and started fishing up river from Ferry. Start fishing...
By: kingwoodworks
Posted: 7/11/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I have been reading reports about the silver fishing at Roosevelt for some time. Finally, the itch had to be scratched. My friend Dick and I were on the road at 5 am and by about 7am we were on the wa...
By: Hobie67
Posted: 5/25/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
My cousin and I decided it was time to try the trout fishing on Lake Roosevelt for the first time. Why we had never gone there before I'll never know. What a great day of fishing it was! With the 4hr ...
By: widebear
Posted: 6/18/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/18/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I changed it up today and tried up river from Keller Ferry. In the water fishing by 6:30. To start I was running the riggers with pink hootchie and the Kekeda orange fly. Corn on the hootchie and worm...
By: widebear
Posted: 6/21/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/21/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Two of my boys and I went fishing today and did OK. Lines in the water by 7:15. Swawilla Basin is where we started and it was a bit slow but were done at noon. Riggers corn pink hootchie and pink apex...
By: widebear
Posted: 6/27/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing for Kok's on Roosevelt is hot right now. The big ones are hard to find but 17" to 19"ers are common. They are all depths from 35 to 80' depends on time of day. Doesn't matter what you use just...
By: atroutfisherman
Posted: 6/29/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I have to agree with widebear, "Fishing for Kok's on Roosevelt is hot right now." Started at about 7:20 and had my limit of "native" Kokanee in less than an hour! Both fish had adipose fins making t...
By: j-andy59
Posted: 3/8/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
First report for me but have been reading reports for a year learning great information on my favorite lakes. My dad and I went on a three day trip on three different lakes and what a trip it was the...
By: widebear
Posted: 3/10/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing above Keller Ferry at 10:30. It was nice enough the wife wanted to go out and she is glad she did. No rainbows were caught but OH MY were the little Kok's alive today. Just find 40 to ...
By: JWScott
Posted: 6/30/2024
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/19/2024
Hot Spots: 0
The Kokanee fishing has been great, I’m late on posting the reports but the fishing is still on fire. 20’-40’ deep and they hit anything pink that we put out there. We’ve been getting one over 4 pound...
By: mayday
Posted: 4/2/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/2/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Rough luck at lake Roosevelt the last two days. First time in forty years I was skunked. Tried everything.... no luck on trout or Kokanee. Talked to a half dozen other boats and they had similar ex...
By: OGFboat
Posted: 8/17/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/16/2020
Hot Spots: 0
It took me a while to get the Kokes dialed in, but once I did, we got into them pretty good. Not as good as last year, but catching giant Kokes on ultra light gear is always a blast. Had my kids along...
By: Part-Time
Posted: 11/30/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/30/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Finally managed to get to the water, and it was a great day to do so. Launched at Keller but couldn't buy a bite down there so we ran up to the Sterling area. It was still pretty slow up there but we ...
By: kokocrazy83
Posted: 12/4/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/2/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at Keller around 8:15 on Monday. It was a chilly and the fog was hanging on the tops of the hills. A perfect day for fishing. We started trolling along the cliffs directly across for the laun...
By: oldgoatlures
Posted: 12/22/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/21/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Left Moscow around 6:30am and arrived at the Keller launch a little after 9:30. Prepped the boat and we were on the water shortly before 10am. Decided to head south to the cliffs that appear at the fi...
By: Yakhusker
Posted: 1/4/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/3/2020
Hot Spots: 0
This is a 2 day report from a relatively new fisherman to this lake. I’ve been 3 times previous, once with a guide and only caught a couple trout. Heard it’s been ok for both Kokanee and trout so my...
By: ElliottM
Posted: 1/22/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/20/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Monday was a tough day fishing, and all the other anglers we spoke to said the same thing. We launched at Spring Canyon around 10am. We kept mainly to the Swawilla area in the morning and in the after...
By: Part-Time
Posted: 1/24/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/23/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Where did those pesky little scaled beasties get off to this time? Launched out of Ft. Spokane and fished from the bridge out to the main river without a bite so we reeled in and headed down to the St...
By: Part-Time
Posted: 7/14/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/12/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I caught one! I caught one! First Kokanee in way too long. We actually fished Wednesday thru Friday out of Keller Ferry and beach camped, it was great. Would like to give the trip a 4 because we had ...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 7/31/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/30/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I have been able to make several trips since my last report. The kokanee are still pretty prevalent but some days we got to work pretty hard to scratch out our limits. They really are scattered all ov...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 8/11/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/10/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Roosevelt is such a beautiful place with so much to see. I feel pretty spoiled to have fished with guests the last 5 days. Overall the bite has been pretty decent. Not super fast fishing, but re...
Posted: 8/11/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/10/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Great day of Kokanee fishing on Lake Roosevelt on Saturday it is great to see these silver footballs being caught again. We launched from Seven Bays Marina early morning and fished between Haystack an...
By: dharris
Posted: 6/14/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/13/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Had the extreme pleasure of introducing a couple great friends from the westside to our high quality fish in Roosevelt. We were targeting the elusive kokanee but were more than happy to bring quite a ...