I was invited to fish Billy Clapp Lake with Dennis and Monaca Beich last Sunday and I said yes with enthusiasm. I have mentioned in previous reports that I’ve had several great days fishing for rainbow trout here in the late winter or early spring. I stopped by the week before to check on conditions and found the dock floating and people launching their fishing boats. After loading the boat, we headed up to the big basalt island and started looking for fish on the Gamin fish finder. We weren’t really seeing many. There were a few marks that looked like big trout, but nothing was hitting the plugs that we were flatlining out the back of the boat. After a while we decided to make the run up to the top end of the lake to see if we could mark some walleye. We did get some good walleye marks, but they were awfully deep, and we weren’t set up for walleye fishing. We spent a little more time trolling back where we started, and got a couple of hits, but didn’t hook a single trout. We are hoping trout fishing will improve when the water temperature warms up.