anyone know where to get a map for roosevelt with depth chart?

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Permalink Reply by Aaron Christel on August 7, 2010 at 2:12pm

I got one at sportco in fife a few years back and I have seen them at auburn sports and marine. They are not very detailed though: I think they have lines ever 20 feet or so? You are only gonna learn water not to fish, but I guess its better than gouing there blind.

Permalink Reply by rzone on August 7, 2010 at 7:06pm

I concur with Aaron, charts might tell you where NOT to fish.

I have a house up on Lake Roosevelt and fish it darn near exclusively now, I have a lot left to learn, so take this with a grain of salt.

I have the Navionics chip in my Humminbird but don't really look at the depth lines that much, you can darn near read what the bottom does by looking at the shoreline. If you are near a big bluff you can bet 20FT from shore you will be in 60-100FT deep water.

If you just want to look at depth contours, get the $10 Navionics app for the iPhone and study that.

It is a different lake to say the least, you will see more dinks this time of year than you can shake a stick at. Good size fish are in there, you gotta fight off dinks to get to them.

Not sure where your tournament will launch from, but I would fish between Spring Canyon and Keller Ferry, get down around 15-30FT deep. Color is key, I have lots of tackle in my boat and my family are all avid fishers, we have seen one or two colors dominate all others, then a week or two later it's another color that rocks them.

Every time I say to myself "there are so many fish here, color can't matter", and I try a color that everyone in my boat is not using, I end up going to the color that we have empirically found to be the color that works.

Green/Gold Flake tubes, grubs, drop shot style, other good colors I would take would be gray, smoke, purple and some white sniper bolts. Last week I lit them up on those new Panic Minnow swimmers, drop swimming them was very hot. The ones I used were the Natural Shad color.

I'd go up the San Poil river, find rock slides and work up to it from a ways out in the lake.

I see a lot of boats blow by me heading up the Spokane Arm, I have caught fish up there, but I would not run there and waste the time or fuel if you launch from Spring Canyon. There is great fishing near Keller and down around Plum point, why pass them by?

Earlier this year my wife caught four fish that would push 20LB, the biggest I have seen by far. Last year one of my kids took a 5LB football sized hawg from the rock piles just south of Keller Ferry.

Take extra XD-100 if you have an ETEC, there isn't any on the lake, you would need to go back to Coulee Playground for it, or trade me cash + beer for some.

Good luck, watch the water level it's dropping now.


Aaron Christel said:

I got one at sportco in fife a few years back and I have seen them at auburn sports and marine. They are not very detailed though: I think they have lines ever 20 feet or so? You are only gonna learn water not to fish, but I guess its better than gouing there blind.

Permalink Reply by eric mccarthy on August 9, 2010 at 9:51pm

Thanks for all the info! I just bought the navionics mobile app for android. Its not like a hds lowrance or anything but for 12 bucks it kinda rocks.

I wanted a depth chart to pick out some spots to fish and avoid but also for boat saftey I have never been there and didnt get a chance to prefish i dont want to run into any suprise shallow rocky areas if I can help it. It looked like you should be able to run most of the lake right down the middle and its super deep.

Thats funny I do have an e-tech and you reminded me to top it off before I head out but if I did run out I would probably have some green dos equis to trade for some xd-100 depending on how many dos equis i had left...priorities

rzone said:

I concur with Aaron, charts might tell you where NOT to fish.

I have a house up on Lake Roosevelt and fish it darn near exclusively now, I have a lot left to learn, so take this with a grain of salt.

I have the Navionics chip in my Humminbird but don't really look at the depth lines that much, you can darn near read what the bottom does by looking at the shoreline. If you are near a big bluff you can bet 20FT from shore you will be in 60-100FT deep water.

If you just want to look at depth contours, get the $10 Navionics app for the iPhone and study that.

It is a different lake to say the least, you will see more dinks this time of year than you can shake a stick at. Good size fish are in there, you gotta fight off dinks to get to them.

Not sure where your tournament will launch from, but I would fish between Spring Canyon and Keller Ferry, get down around 15-30FT deep. Color is key, I have lots of tackle in my boat and my family are all avid fishers, we have seen one or two colors dominate all others, then a week or two later it's another color that rocks them.

Every time I say to myself "there are so many fish here, color can't matter", and I try a color that everyone in my boat is not using, I end up going to the color that we have empirically found to be the color that works.

Green/Gold Flake tubes, grubs, drop shot style, other good colors I would take would be gray, smoke, purple and some white sniper bolts. Last week I lit them up on those new Panic Minnow swimmers, drop swimming them was very hot. The ones I used were the Natural Shad color.

I'd go up the San Poil river, find rock slides and work up to it from a ways out in the lake.

I see a lot of boats blow by me heading up the Spokane Arm, I have caught fish up there, but I would not run there and waste the time or fuel if you launch from Spring Canyon. There is great fishing near Keller and down around Plum point, why pass them by?

Earlier this year my wife caught four fish that would push 20LB, the biggest I have seen by far. Last year one of my kids took a 5LB football sized hawg from the rock piles just south of Keller Ferry.

Take extra XD-100 if you have an ETEC, there isn't any on the lake, you would need to go back to Coulee Playground for it, or trade me cash + beer for some.

Good luck, watch the water level it's dropping now.


Aaron Christel said:

I got one at sportco in fife a few years back and I have seen them at auburn sports and marine. They are not very detailed though: I think they have lines ever 20 feet or so? You are only gonna learn water not to fish, but I guess its better than gouing there blind.

Permalink Reply by rzone on August 9, 2010 at 10:05pm

You are good to run in the middle for sure, its deep.

There are some nasty rocks and since it is not full pool they will be right about perfect depth for taking a lower unit off. One I have seen take out boats is just up river past Sterling Point on the right, three nice little sunken rocks the size of a house or bigger.

If you go up to the Spokane arm, when you make that turn just don't hug the right hand edge.

Here is what the water level is doing:

http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=otx&gage=gcdw...

Dos Equis...

Reminds me of the web site:

http://www.dosequisguy.com/




eric mccarthy said:

Thanks for all the info! I just bought the navionics mobile app for android. Its not like a hds lowrance or anything but for 12 bucks it kinda rocks.

I wanted a depth chart to pick out some spots to fish and avoid but also for boat saftey I have never been there and didnt get a chance to prefish i dont want to run into any suprise shallow rocky areas if I can help it. It looked like you should be able to run most of the lake right down the middle and its super deep.

Thats funny I do have an e-tech and you reminded me to top it off before I head out but if I did run out I would probably have some green dos equis to trade for some xd-100 depending on how many dos equis i had left...priorities