Greg K: Lake Roosevelt - 10/6

My Father-In-Law and I went to Lake Roosevelt for the afternoon on Thursday. It was a cloudy and cool day with a few light rain showers. I hadn't been on Roosevelt since the club's Fall Camp Out in mid September. Fishing was really slow back in September, so I wasn't expecting much. We were pleasantly surprised. Between noon and 5 pm, we caught a dozen small walleyes (11-14 inches), 3 rainbows (16-20 inches), and a couple little bass. The lake level was up to 1284 feet...about 5 or 6 feet higher than mid September.

More info for club members: Fishing at the Camp Out was poor, so my expectations for catching keeper walleyes was low. My Father-In-Law didn't care what kind of fish we caught, so we started fishing for trout along the "Weeping Wall". The Humminbird was marking fish between 20 and 30 feet, so we let out 30 feet of line, attached 3 ounce snap weights, and let out another 30-40 feet of line. We pulled spinner/crawler harnesses and caught 2 trout in the first 15 minutes, then an hour of nothing. We motored up above Buoy 7 into the narrow channel and pulled bouncers and crawlers in 25 to 35 feet and began catching walleyes immediately, as well as a trout, and a few bass. Color didn't seem to matter.