downriggeral
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Fished lake Roosevelt today in Eastern Washington.
WOW what a day! We launched out of Seven Bays and started trolling just out of the bay about 9:00 this morning. The drive down was not too bad with ice and fog only in some limited spots along the way.
The first rod was only in 5 minutes and BAM fish on. The 18 incher about tore the pole out of the holder!! It inhaled the Rapala. I put out a couple of Frisky Jenney Flies (Lenny Special and Trick er Treat) one three colors lead and one on the downrigger at 18'. Caught fish on both setups.
We in fact caught hungry fish on everything we tried. Trolled at 2.6 mph most of the time. We had four rods out and finished the year out with a quadruple!!! Even got them all in the boat without tangling. That made fifteen fat, feisty rainbows for the three of us by 10:15. What a way to finish out the year. Put the poles away and just let the boat drift while we ate our lunch and had coffee in the warm heated cabin.....life's tough!
Tight lines all and Happy New Year,
Alan
WOW what a day! We launched out of Seven Bays and started trolling just out of the bay about 9:00 this morning. The drive down was not too bad with ice and fog only in some limited spots along the way.
The first rod was only in 5 minutes and BAM fish on. The 18 incher about tore the pole out of the holder!! It inhaled the Rapala. I put out a couple of Frisky Jenney Flies (Lenny Special and Trick er Treat) one three colors lead and one on the downrigger at 18'. Caught fish on both setups.
We in fact caught hungry fish on everything we tried. Trolled at 2.6 mph most of the time. We had four rods out and finished the year out with a quadruple!!! Even got them all in the boat without tangling. That made fifteen fat, feisty rainbows for the three of us by 10:15. What a way to finish out the year. Put the poles away and just let the boat drift while we ate our lunch and had coffee in the warm heated cabin.....life's tough!
Tight lines all and Happy New Year,
Alan
