Northwest Reel Life March 2024 Volume 3 Issue 5 - Flipbook - Page 9
Southeastern Washington,
offer another March
destination. Speaking
with Kim Andersen at
The Last RV Resort (the
closest resort to these
lakes), I learned two small
lakes (Blue and Spring)
are open all year and have
historically received plants
of 24,000 and 15,000 trout
respectively.
Four additional lakes open
on March 1st (Deer, Watson,
Rainbow, and Big Four),
though Anderson says
since the area flooded a
few years ago, Big Four
Lake doesn’t really exist
as such and should not
be considered as a viable
option. Asked which lakes
fish best in early March,
Anderson said Spring, Deer,
Rainbow, and Watson
Lakes all fish well when icefree.
The Last RV Resort near
Pomeroy has cabins, RV,
and tent sites available
along with a coffee bar.
Anderson says they still
have openings available
for the popular March
1st opening day of trout
fishing.
www.thelastresortrv.com
LAKE LENORE TROUT
If you are looking for some
big trout to catch and
release, consider a trip to
the Columbia Basin north
of Soap Lake and cast a line
into Lake Lenore. You’ll find
Lahontan cutthroat trout
here, a species native to
Nevada that was stocked
in this very alkaline lake
decades ago by WDFW.
The trout commonly weigh
two to three pounds but
five to six-pound fish are
not uncommon and there’s
always the possibility of
landing a ten-pound trout.
This was a very popular
spring fishery in the 1990’s
and early years of the 21st
Century. Unfortunately,
poaching efforts knocked
down this fishery. Why
anyone would want to take
home fish that likely taste
like soap, I do not know but
enough people did that the
fishing suffered.
Fortunately, the fish
population has rebounded
but despite that, the word
hasn’t gotten out to most
anglers and this place
fishes under the radar. It
is a selective fishery lake,
where only single barbless
hooks are allowed. If you
are in a boat, you can only
use an electric motor and
your fishing net has to be
knotless.
If you do decide to take
a fish home you only get
to take one and it must
measure at least 18 inches
long.
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