Fishing around here has been slow.  Lake Pend Oreille has really slooooooow.  Bass fishing has tapered off.  Fish are moving to deeper water.  Large Lake Trout are nearly non-existent,  rainbows?  what rainbows?  The dead sea is once again…the dead sea. 

Unless you like catching Sqawfish (Pike Minnow)  these things are everywhere and they are stuffed with Kokanee.  I cut one open yesterday and it has 27 baby kokanee in it’s belly…good thing, according to studies, they don’t eat kokanne.

On a good notice the Kootenai is on fire!  Hopper fishing has been outstanding, especially on the lower stretches.  The Clearwater is putting out steelhead everyday!  Mostly smaller “a-runs” but soon the big dogs will be in.  Smaller flies on floating or intermediate tips have been producing.

Good luck out there.  I am headed to SouthWest Washington….(More steelhead over there right now)