After having lunch and a rest, we headed over to Wapato to check out the Spiny Rays. We thought to hit wapato instead of Roses because we thought Wapato would have less big boat traffic. WRONG!! There was 5-6 boats sking, tubing, and wake boarding, plus several jet skies, some of which were trying to pull skiers. On a lake of this size it was Busy. So needless to say the wave action was active. The east shoreline was murky from all the wave action, and we didn't get very many bites on that side. We did pick up a few perch in 20 feet or so depths, but decided to move to the west shoreline. the water is deeper there and we did catch some scattered fish. Once again the fish were in 8-25 feet of water and close to the bottom. We caught several Bluegills in the 7-9 inch range that were still full of eggs, back they went. and kept a couple nice bluegills. Caught several crappie and kept a few from 9 1/2 - 12 7/8 inches. The yellow perch were scattered but we did keep a nice mess to go along with the crappie and blue gills. The perch were running 8-10 1/2 inches, so were plenty big enough for us. We used 1/16 oz jig heads with a berkly nymph tipped with a crappie nible to work the deeper water. We used a 1/80 oz jig with a "Tiny Tube" tipped with a 1 inch berckley black leech. These little guys were killers. Had to be super patient for them to sink to the strike zone, but when they did, there would be some kind of fish yanking on them. Not many fishermen out, but other than the constant wave jumping it was a great day on the water. 75* with a water temp of 68-69*. Perfect weather for fishing.

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