Thursday 18th of March I went fishing on Dwvorshak reservoir with my friend Duane. We went up to the lake at 1000am and launched the boat from the Big Eddy Boat Launch. There was a dozen other rigs parked in the parking lot. We started fishing along a rocky shoreline across from the boat launch. There was very little wind so it was easy to keep the boat where we wanted it. We used the electric trolling motor to reposition the boat if it drifted away from where we wanted it. Duane had the first bite on a spinner and worm combination. It was a 11 inch trout that we quickly put into the fish basket. The fish basket was tied on to the boat and tossed over the side to let the fish swim alongside.
Duane got another bite almost as soon as he got the re-baited spinner back into the water. I was changing my jig to a spinner even before he got the second trout to the boat. This fish was a nice 10 inch rainbow trout. I un-hooked the fish and put it into the fish basket. I got the next bite and soon had a 12 inch rainbow trout flopping in the bottom of the boat. I quickly added it to the fish basket. Duane had another bite and it turned out to be a kokannee about 9 inches long.
The morning quickly went by as we slowly added fish to the basket. There would be lots of bites but the hooking was difficult. I think that the small mouthed kokannee was nibbling of the end of the worms from the hooks.
Right after dinner we moved about 5 miles to the Canyon Creek area. We fished in the same area as 5 other boats. It was an area that we had fished in years past that usually held fish. We managed to catch 3 kokannee but quickly the fish stopped bitting. We moved to the end of the bay where the creek entered into the reservoir. We failed to get any more bites. After a sandwich and drink of water we decided to go back to the are where we had started.
The fish in the basket was getting more numerous so i decided to count them to prevent from catching more then the limit. I found that there was 11 trout and seven kokannee in the basket. W started getting more bites and quickly caught several more kokannee. The last trout, number 12, made up our limit for the day. We continued fishing for kokannee. We threw back all the trout after that. I cleaned the fish as we fished. We had 12 trout and 12 kokannee
We quit fishing around 400pm. After loading up the boat we drove home. That evening we had a fish fry with the fresh kokannee! It was delicious!
