If you saw or heard my report for Thursday, you learned that the steelhead fishing was very poor below Wells Dam. The four boats that were checked at the boat launch that morning didn’t get a single fish. Rollie Schmitten and I didn’t get skunked, though. After making several drifts with bobbers and jigs I put out two rods with Mag lips, converted to single barbless hooks. Not long into our drift the outside rod bent over hard. Rollie grabbed the rod and knew he had a big fish on. What flavor we wouldn’t know until it got close to the boat. It came in very reluctantly but without jumping or tearing too much line off the reel. When it got close, I could see the color wasn’t right for a steelhead on salmon. It turned out to be a walleye. We hauled in and got a quick photo before releasing it. It was Rollie’s biggest walleye ever and measured 25 inches. It was a classic Columbia River fish, a beautiful golden color. So, our day on the water wasn’t entirely fishless. I did hear of a quick limit, but the angler didn’t say where he was. I would guess the Methow.