5-19 SS Spring Fishing

Coming off the winter snowpack rivers may be raging with freezing waters.  Tough to fish but don’t wring your hands together with grief. There is an alternative. You may want to think about spring fishing somewhere else.

 Here’s Josh Mills with a spring fishing solution that is not river based.  “Our rivers are going to enter some biblical flood stage because we have a pretty good snowpack to burn off here but during that time there is a good stop gap and that is our lakes. In Eastern Washington we have thousands of these lakes like the Basin lakes, Lenore, Nunnely, you  have Dry Fall. It can be absolutely tremendous fishing if you get yourself a float tube, or a pontoon boat or a small pram or something like that and you can get out and effectively fish these lakes and I have had days when I have caught 20 to30 trout in a day. What happens is they start to warm up and these fish often key in on chronimids. Chronimids  are midge larvae that hatch in the thousands and they are tiny. You are fishing size 14 to 20 they are not very ornate you finish them under a strike indicator or as people like to call them, bobbers, but these fish really key into them and if you can dial in a depth, you can absolutely, excuse the term, rail on fish, have a great day, enjoy the springtime, listen to the woods wake up from a long winter and have a great day fishing.