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Reports > 2011 > March > Friday 18
Friday, March 18, 2011
 
By Dave Graybill
 
If you like fast action for rainbow trout with some kokanee mixed in, Lake Roosevelt would be a great destination. I jumped aboard the Shane Magnuson, Upper Columbia Guide Service boat last Saturday to see how we could do. The boat was launched at Spring Canyon and we found most of the fish almost in front of the park there. Shane was trolling with side planers and three other rods, as we had a boat load of anglers with us. He was targeting the kokanee and using lures he figured would have most appeal to them, knowing that rainbow would take the same thing. They sure did. They liked the Rapalas and small hoochies just fine. We ran the pink hoochies behind small trout dodgers and baited the hooks with white, shoe peg corn. In just a couple of hours the boat claimed nine rainbow which were as large as 20 inches, and three nice kokanee. All of the fish were taken pretty shallow. We figured that our baits were never any deeper than about ten feet. It was pretty windy and Shane said we had the best action when the boat was cruising along at 1.2 to 1.7 miles per hour.