Started trolling with basic trout gear, ford fenders and wedding rings tipped with pieces of worm. Hit a few trout and a couple of kokonee, but nothing big. Anchored inside the reservior area outside the buoy's at the mouth of the upper Lewis and started catching them like crazy. Bottom fishing with worms and salmon eggs. Ended up with a nice string of fish from 10" to 18". Good day overall, other than the wind blowing around 11:00am. Normal day to day activity up there.

went to swift today, got a late start and got there around 10 and was in the water at 10:20 and the first fish on the bank 10min later, the fishing stayed pretty consistent throughout the day, the fish averaged 10-16in with a mixed bag a slimmers(trout) and kokanee, started off with a bobber and worm about 10-12ft down, caught a few fish,so i got bored and wanted to do a little experiment broke out one of my ice jigs and attached it to the bobber, It was all over but the crime. ended up catching at least a dozen or so that way before we called it a day, Performed C.P.R caught photographed and released, Talked to a few other anglers and seemed that most people were doing ok for the most part. I did see one guy with probably a 5lb trout on the way out, (Very nice fish), I cant wait for next weekend gonna take the boat out,

Ever have one of those days? Made it to the lake a lot later than I had planned, around 2:30 pm. Swift is definately dropping, I was told by some people in a RV that it had dropped 18 inches since the previous day! Started to back my boat in and accidentally rubbed my front fender of my Toy 4Runner on the dock side, ouch! Then, I got my boat into the water with some help from the people in the RV and started to motor off when I realized the stern was riding kinda low. Oh no! I forgot to put the plug in! :-( Back to the dock, I pulled the boat back out and turned on the bilge pump. Twenty minutes later I'm finally heading out on the water. Was told by several people in boats that the fishing was really good, and even though it was getting late in the day I decided to head towards the dam and find my favorite spot. Began trolling and instantly caught a salmon (not sure exactly what kind) about 12 inches. Trolling along with my downrigger about 40 feet in about 130 feet of water I wasn't paying close enough attention when suddenly I was in like 35 feet of water! The pancake weight got caught in something on the bottom and a few minutes later I was looking at the snarled end of my broken downrigger cable! Auggghhhh!! What else I'm thinking? Well fortunately the fish were actually close to the surface and I began trolling with my gear just under the surface. In all I landed about 7 (released 2) of these (landlocked silvers?) and kept enough for the frying pan. Very tasty! But it didn't exactly make up for the bucks I have to spend now to replace/repair everything. Oh well, at least my boat isn't sitting on the bottom of the lake!

Tight lines, and if you plan to go there go this week! The lake will probably be too low to launch after that.

Sorry, no pics this time, my camera would have probably been dropped overboard anyways! :-(

Got on the lake a little after noon, had our first fish on a few minutes later. Had our best luck between the dam and swift creek. Water levels are still high enough to allow for great fishing. Good fishing.........

Went to Swift at about noon and caught our limit in about an hour and a half using worms on the bottom. Good fun, hope to be back soon.