Pend Oreille Fishing Report March and April, 2009 with photos

Well it has been a good start of the year. I've been out probably around 20 times in the past two months and over the past two weeks the water temp has been slowely rising and the fish bite has been turning on. Main lake points and secondary points have been fishing really well for Largemouth. Haven't gotten into any smallmouth yet but waiting for water temp to rise up a bit more. Water temp around 54 in most creeks.

If you are looking for some good fishing I know the places and what is working well. Always looking for people to go out with. Hope everyone has had time to get out on the water!

Nice looking Fish!  I've never caught a bass close to that size.  Very nice.

Nice fishy!

Dang, 54 degrees? I haven't been seeing those kind of temps in my neck of the woods. Time to look for some shallow ponds out in the desert.

Was just there at farragutt state park, didn't fish any (promised my wife) we went to silverwood. But saw some big fish come out of that lake. 4-5# rainbows and some nice lake trout. The biologist at the hatchery near Sand point said that lake trout are a big problem up there, so much that they have hired commercial guys to gill net them. Sounds like some good fishing to me. BIG lake though. No submarines though.

no submarines?? damn, with a navy nuke school nearby you'd think there'd have been at least one. 

Those are just reactor prototypes. Now Dabob Bay and the Hood Canal...that's another story!!!

Darn nice fish! I have been trying here on the Central Oregon Coast for LMB the last couple of weeks, but the fishing is slow. Too many bait fish! I saw bass hitting them at the surface today at Mercer lake, but they wouldn't even look at my rapala. Hmmmm, maybe a road trip?

I was paddling/pedaling just recently along the green monarch mountains on Lake Pend Oreille just south of Lees Landing/Clark Fork Delta and saw a bunch of trout. I was dying as I wish I had brought my fishing gear. You can see Lees Landing, etc. at www.boatingtheinlandnw.com . Whiskey Rock area is also a great fishing area but my favorate on Lake Pend Oreille is the Clark Fork area. Great fishing report, thanks.