Told ya Carl: Blue and Park are shot,will be even worse next year unless F&G gets on the ball
and rehabs em. I used to get 20-30 per day C&R on chironomids in late June, but this year only a couple per all morning. Where those 100,000+ planter trout go on Banks who knows?? They get some fishing walleyes with blade and worm, but they're scattered and few and far between normally.
Shoulda tried flyfishing for Carp on Banks at that shoal just N. of Coulee City where the road nears the lake.
Or else if you come this time of year pay a few extra bucks and fish Omak Lake for the big
Lahontins. Get em trolling spoons or flyfishing the South end shoals. They don't get on the
thermocline and start Plankton feeding like the Rainbows do once the water reaches 65.
I love to get em dragging a muddler on sinking line.
The net pens on Rufus Woods have been slooooow lately, but those that know the lake are getting a few in the shallow bays up nearer Bridgeport and Chief Jo.