Bass fishing

[D-Rock425]

has anyone been fishing for them yet?  I lost a good one on clear lake yesterday on fish we had on last him right at the boat.  Lake goodwin has put a few small mounth in the boat but fishing is still slow.

[BLKBEARKLR]

I got out the other day on American lake, wind was bad 2-3 foot white caps. Did not really do a heck of a lot of fishing was just getting the boat out after her spring tune up. I will start hitting the smaller lakes next week sometime.

Good luck to you out there..

Joe

[alanger]

I'm gunna be up at lake chelan for spring break so i'm definately going to be trying for them, don't know how deep they are still.

[MtnMuley]

I'm gunna be up at lake chelan for spring break so i'm definately going to be trying for them, don't know how deep they are still.

Deeper than you're capable of going, alanger. 

[SpokaneSlayer]

A buddy of mine and I went to Roosevelt on Saturday to pre-fish for tourney this coming weekend.  We didn't put one bass in the boat.  Water temps were frigid, 39-42 degrees and ultra clear.  I threw everything I could think of.  Dropshots, big jigs, small jigs, lipless cranks, tubes, etc.  We just could not locate fish.  I did catch my first couple fish of the year, a pair of 18" rainbows dropshotting a Zoom 4" worm in smokin' shad color.  If this trip is an indication of what's to come in a few days, it's going to be a very long and tough tournament.

[MtnMuley]

A buddy of mine and I went to Roosevelt on Saturday to pre-fish for tourney this coming weekend.  We didn't put one bass in the boat.  Water temps were frigid, 39-42 degrees and ultra clear.  I threw everything I could think of.  Dropshots, big jigs, small jigs, lipless cranks, tubes, etc.  We just could not locate fish.  I did catch my first couple fish of the year, a pair of 18" rainbows dropshotting a Zoom 4" worm in smokin' shad color.  If this trip is an indication of what's to come in a few days, it's going to be a very long and tough tournament.

Were you marking any fish?

[SpokaneSlayer]

Yeah we were in some spots, but few and far between.

[alanger]

I'm gunna be up at lake chelan for spring break so i'm definately going to be trying for them, don't know how deep they are still.

Deeper than you're capable of going, alanger. 

Doubt it but i've been talking to poeple hopefully the water is warming, forgot to look the last time i was up there.

[D-Rock425]

Got 2 nice small mouth sat morning close to 4 pounds each.

[BLKBEARKLR]

A buddy of mine and I went to Roosevelt on Saturday to pre-fish for tourney this coming weekend.  We didn't put one bass in the boat.  Water temps were frigid, 39-42 degrees and ultra clear.  I threw everything I could think of.  Dropshots, big jigs, small jigs, lipless cranks, tubes, etc.  We just could not locate fish.  I did catch my first couple fish of the year, a pair of 18" rainbows dropshotting a Zoom 4" worm in smokin' shad color.  If this trip is an indication of what's to come in a few days, it's going to be a very long and tough tournament.

Well how did you do on it?

[SpokaneSlayer]

I posted a full report about it on here.

[Antlerking]

They are hitting, a little prespawn action. My dad and bro fished the banks lake open last weekend and placed 23 out of 45 or so boats, not bad ,but I thought they would do better. They caught a lot if fish but mostly shakers. They couldnt get very many tourney fish in the boat.

[rasbo]

I got out the other day on American lake, wind was bad 2-3 foot white caps. Did not really do a heck of a lot of fishing was just getting the boat out after her spring tune up. I will start hitting the smaller lakes next week sometime.

Good luck to you out there..

Joe

I see they have changed the regs, on all lakes starting april 1st speed limits are not to excede 10mph..Studies at wsu and Isu and oicu812 shows it disturbs the beds during the spawn,and erodes the shoreline..These were articles written by Stu padaz

[SpokaneSlayer]

They are hitting, a little prespawn action. My dad and bro fished the banks lake open last weekend and placed 23 out of 45 or so boats, not bad ,but I thought they would do better. They caught a lot if fish but mostly shakers. They couldnt get very many tourney fish in the boat.

We stayed in the same campsite as the guys fishing that tournament.  Water temps were approaching 50 in some of the bays at Banks.  Heck of a lot warmer than the 39 degrees we saw.  Winning bag for that tournament was 14.99 lbs I think.  Our winner had 14.71 on the first day.

[woodywsu]

I got out the other day on American lake, wind was bad 2-3 foot white caps. Did not really do a heck of a lot of fishing was just getting the boat out after her spring tune up. I will start hitting the smaller lakes next week sometime.

Good luck to you out there..

Joe

I see they have changed the regs, on all lakes starting april 1st speed limits are not to excede 10mph..Studies at wsu and Isu and oicu812 shows it disturbs the beds during the spawn,and erodes the shoreline..These were articles written by Stu padaz

Where did you see this rule?

[SpokaneSlayer]

I think he's kidding

OICU812?    Isn't that a Van Halen album?  Nevermind, that's OU812.

[fishcrazy]

I had a really good day on black bass on Saturday.


Kris

[Dustin07]

i was just updating my journal before seeing this post. I caught a 2lb+ largemouth on lake sawyer on 2/31. I'm not sure what the temps were, but a few days earlier they were about 44f (h20 temp). and on 3/27 I caught a new personal best smallmouth, 3lb5oz in sawyer. temps were 53f. The guy who took me out and taught me a lot about bassing caught two more SMB's that day, in the 2lb+range.

I'm planning on going to Mardon april 15th-17th I think to mostly fish for bass, but hope to put a couple walleye and trout in the smoker too.