Okay, I’ll admit that some of my ideas about where to go fishing don’t always pan out. I talked my buddy James Lebow into getting his boat out of mothballs and try trolling for rainbow above Priest Rapids Dam. He, Ryan Harris and I pulled plugs along the can line above the dam all the way up past the State Park, and only got couple of hits. We changed the plugs and depths without any results. I suggested we try a spot further up the reservoir, and that was almost disastrous. While we were cruising along at full speed we hit something but didn’t know what. We turned around and drove back and found a 2-inch thick flow of ice that was almost invisible, as water flowed over it. We cut the 20-foot long flow in half. James noticed a vibration in the motor that wasn’t there before, but we were able to run up and troll off Brandts Landing and make it back to the dock. None of us could remember the last time that we had been skunked. So much for my bright ideas. We agreed that they would choose the destination for the next trip.