While most the state’s anglers are anxiously awaiting the opening of the lowland lakes trout season at the end of the month, many are already enjoying good trout fishing here in Eastern Washington. I was in Manson, on Lake Chelan recently, and drove over the hill to Roses Lake. I found good numbers of anglers fishing from the bank and a couple of boats on the water. Everyone was getting limits of rainbow. The fish weren’t huge. Most of them were 10-inchers, buy there are larger fish in Roses for sure. These fish are the result of the fall plant. In the Quincy area people are still taking some fish from the lakes that opened on March 1st and in the Columbia Basin there are trout being taken from the lakes that opened on April 1st. The Colville Tribe also recently released nearly 10,000 triploid rainbow into Rufus Woods Reservoir. Trout fishing continues to be very good on Lake Roosevelt. Buffalo Lake, which is on the Colville Reservation ten miles from Coulee Dam is now open to fishing for trout, it can be spectacular in the spring.