I live in Cheney on the weekends, at least I have for the last year and me and Da Stump (my dad) went down this last June and it took us about 1.5 - 2 hours from Cheney towing a boat. You would want to stay, part of the fun is going to be camping. Smallmouth will just be starting to turn on also along with walleye.
Hope to see you all there.
Gear that I like to bring out in my boat:
Giant cooler full of food, soda, and water, also works for a bunch of fish
2 steelhead rod with 12 plus pound line on it for cats
1 rod for spin casting for bass, walleye, squaws, and the triploids at the secret pond 6-8 lb test
3" dark tube baits for bass
powerbait orange trout
red eggs triploids
Size 2 hooks, lots of them, pre-tied steelhead hooks work good with a bait loop, cats
Size 8 hooks to catch the best bait on, squaw fish, cut plug them, plus they work on the triploids or other trout
large swivels
three way swivels
pyramid weights or pancake weights, 1,2,4 oz
weight slides for your line, just like for sturgeon
3/4 oz slip sinkers
Worms
Shrimp in shell, not cooked
Beef Liver
trout (store bought f course to make it legal, I even have a pkg in my boat to prove it)
Crawfish smelly Jelly
Net, large enough for a 20+ pound fish
rope stringer, don't want it breaking
Good fillet knife
2" x 12" x 30" board with big nail, help fillet the fish
camera
Plus the basic stuff that you want for camping. I will have a tent set up, possible a tent trailer, plus a 10x10 pop up tent.
If there is an interest I can bring down the BBQ, has like 6 burners on it 160K BTU
I hope to see as many people there as possible, we need to think of prizes for:
biggest fish
most fish
most variety of fish
or any other category you can think of
this will be fun, we will document it with pics and make all of you that can't come wish you would have