I have spent many winter mornings on the Colville Indian Reservation fishing from the shore at the net pen site. It had been a while since my friends and I have had a chance to give this a try, and the opportunity came up a few days ago. As we pulled into the site, I only saw two boat trailers, and we had the beach at the boat launch to ourselves. We found the river current running fast, and the water was so high that we were restricted to a small area near the boat ramp. James Lebow and I cast out our favorite color of Power Bait. Our other fishing buddy, Ryan Harris, did the same, but added a Power Bait Mouse Tail to his hook. James and I had laughed at Ryan when he first used one of these on a trip to the net pens a couple years ago but then had to borrow some when he had success with them. We spent just a couple of hours fishing, as the day became colder and threatened to snow on us. Guess what, the only bite the three of us got was on Ryan’s rod, with the Mouse Tail.