Lake Lenice - Grant County

Got the first report this morning from Larry Roxby (Captain Larry) from this popular Eastern Washington quality water and the reports are in fact "Great". Larry said that the smallest fish he landed yesterday on the opener was 18 in. and many were pushing over the 20 in. mark. He mentioned that the fish were not very selective and in fact were being caught on virtually everything that you would cast out. All the normal Eastern Washington patterns were producing well. Leeches, blood worms and chironomids all produced well. Larry said that there were plenty of anglers fishing yesterday. (I suppose which is an indicator of the poor economy and everyone has time to go fishing).

Water temperature was at 46 - 47 degrees, 10 degrees warmer than it was this time last year.

When I spoke with Chad Jackson, one of the WDFW biologists for this region this past week he mentioned that the mild winter did wonders for this and many other lakes of this area. The weather not only accounted for better than average growth rates but virtually no winter kill!

The fishing should continue to be quite good for a while, and we should start to see some early bug hatches with the warmer than normal water and air temperatures.