Eastern Washington Trip (Pic Heavy)
Re: Eastern Washington Trip (WaYoop)
What is the name of that fish? Looks like a carp, we don't see fish like that in my neck of the woods, at least that I can remember. Once again lovely seanery.
Re: Eastern Washington Trip (Lpolk)
Re: Eastern Washington Trip (WaYoop)
looks like a good time wish i could have made it.
Re: Eastern Washington Trip (steamfitter)
did you fish the rock slide on the west side of steamboat rock, i never got around to it when i was there but it looked good?
Re: Eastern Washington Trip (steamfitter)
I did on the last afternoon for a bit, kind of got blown off of it...Got some fish but didn't really fish it that long. We will work out a trip next summer - I need someone to show me how to catch some big fish at Roosevelt http://xs-s.com/zf/images/smile/emthup.gif
Re: Eastern Washington Trip (WaYoop)
Re: Eastern Washington Trip (WaYoop)
WaYoop,
Man I just happened to be over there the same time you were. I went over on Thursday the 9th and got back yesterday (the 13th). I was with my friend fishing out of his Triton 21X with a Mercury 250 PRO XS . I love my 191 Champ but his boat flat out hauls! He said he saw a Champion when we were in town. It probably was you!
We planned on fishing Banks the first day and then Roosevelt but decieded to hit Roosevelt first since as you said, has the bigger fish in it. We did so well on Roosevelt that we ended fishing it for 4 days and never made it over to Banks. The top water bite was definately on!! We didn't catch anything over 3 1/2 pounds but we SAW some huge fish. We were actually on a houseboat up by Seven Bays with some other guys. What a blast!
My friend Mark with a nice smallie
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Another nice smallie
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Me with a smallie
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Houseboat we were on
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Black bear that must have smelled our cooking!
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Picture showing how close he got to us!
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Re: Eastern Washington Trip (WaYoop)
Re: Eastern Washington Trip (jkainoa)
Great pics John http://www.bassboatcentral.com/smileys/thumbsup2.gif I thought about shooting you a message, but then thought what are the odds you would be over there.
I will definitely pick your brain before my next trip over that way, probably next spring/summer. I caught a ton of fish at Banks and Roosevelt, not a lot of big fish, but fun.
Take care - Rob
Re: Eastern Washington Trip (WaYoop)
Rob,
Glad to hear that you caught fish on both lakes! I plan on going back over this weekend and later in October if I get a chance. I was there last year with a buddy of mine that lives in Spokane and although the bass fishing was pretty dismal for us, (we caught one bass all day long) we killed the trout!
This past weekend we did find a couple of spots that were holding mostly smaller fish (up around Keller's Ferry) but when we did catch bigger fish, they seemed to be in groups. Several times we would hook a fish and see others swimming along with it, kind of like what you see fish do in the spring. There was really one common pattern that was working for us. I'll try to mail you to send you more info.
Re: Eastern Washington Trip (jkainoa)
