One of the places I wanted to check out on a recent trip to upper Grant County was Crescent Bay. This bay is popular with bank anglers looking for the triploid rainbow trout that are released into Lake Roosevelt. Did you know that over 700,000 trout are released into Lake Roosevelt every year? A fair number of them like to cruise through this bay, which is located just down the hill from the town of Grand Coulee Dam. Even when Roosevelt is at a very high level there is a long sandy beach that people like to cast from. When I stopped by there were a few anglers fishing from the far end of the beach and a family enjoying a picnic at one of the tables, while they watched the rods they had set up on the shore. I have a friend that lives just above Crescent Bay and fishes here very often in the fall and winter. He will cast a marshmallow and shrimp or a marshmallow and nightcrawler combo bait to catch his fish. He may not limit every time he fishes here, but he has caught rainbow measuring up to 24 inches from the shore at this bay.