Hunting Washington Forum
Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: ridgefire on May 03, 2011, 07:50:15 PM
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my brother and i are thinking about going bassing tomorrow but do not have much of a clue about bass fishing. we live in monroe and looking for a good lake to try fishing. anybody have a recommendation for a lake and what type of gear as far as crank baits or spinner baits or plastic baits. thanks
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Goodwin is loaded with them.
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So is Rossinger or Cassidy
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what you guys catching them on, we went to flowing on sat. and got skunked. usually catch them on my flyrod with a woolly bugger or on the spinning rod with a mepps or rooster tail but want to learn the bass lures. any suggestions for lures for roesiger for this time of year.
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Any of the above with the addition of chain lake and blackmans lake especially for bass a good fail safe of mine is Samammish I catch big guys there at the park on the SE end
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All of those and flowing. Senkos will catch fish just about anywhere, and they're easy to fish too!
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Try Vibrex # 3-4
They work good for everything
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Some nice smallies in Lake Stevens. Look around the site for "Skillet". He fishes the lake and I think has some posts regarding bass. You can also PM him and I'm sure he'll pass on some tips. I've met him on the lake and been out shooting with him once..nice guy.
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went out to roesiger for a few hours after running down to three rivers marine to get some bass gear and plain got skunked. we were throwing senkos and some jig thing that three rivers sold us on. probably try out cassidy or goodwin next.
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Hammered a few out of flowing lake about this time last year, while taking my boat out for a test run. Finesse em! Plastic worms jigged of the bottom around the docks or by the lilly pads up by the north boat ramp. Or better yet, just give me a call and this ex bass fisherman will show you how its done. ;) :chuckle:
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Bass should be coming off the spawn right now, you might want to dead stick those senkos some
Joe
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Coming off the spawn? :dunno:
If you fish cassidy beef your gear up a little there is a ton of structure in there. We've done good on jig and trailers there.
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is brifor who i think it is? do you have a twin brother by chance.
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With the spring we have had I would think they are just starting to think about spawing. Water has been too cold for them to do their thing..... :twocents: x2 on the senkos and jigs. Good luck!
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yes and yes.
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I have spent about 10 years fishing these lakes for bass Cassidy, Roesiger, flowing, Panther etc.. Flowing and Roesiger always starts late due to cold water and depth. Flowing is over 100 and Roe is about 80 so they..take way longer to warm up. Cassidy is probably the best early lake around you can fish that is Jan and flip a jig to the cover and catch largemouth. Storm lake is always a good bet for numbers fish a Senko or pitch a jig to the docks and the timber. Get it close to the docks like within a few inchs.. Skip senkos under the docks.. if you have not done this you should learn, its like skipping a rock. Once done right you can skip a senko 20 feet under a dock. I would say you best bet to catch a fish right now would be Storm, Cassidy or panther. Stick pretty shallow with a Spinnerbait, senko and a Jig. If its pretty cold make sure to move those SLOW!!!
Hope that helps.. once flowing heats up and Roe, you will start getting some big ones.. both lakes get a fair amount of pressure but hold big fish.. we have had several days with mulit fish over 5 lbs. and had a few 8 lbers. (all on scales and I have fished tournament for over 10 years now so not full of chit).
Good luck and hope that helps
Oh and make sure to use natural colors on flowing and Roe.
Brian
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all great info from wabassguy for the local lakes..
hey brian didn't you move already..?? stick with the east side stuff now will ya since you bailed from us over here :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
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went out again with my boys today and managed to get a couple small ones, bout six inches or so. the boy was throwing a mepps for trout and was catching bass so had to tie one on, couldnt get outfished by a ten year old. :dunno: anyways, had fun taking the boys out after school, they love it. will probably wait till it warms up till i go out again.
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went out again with my boys today and managed to get a couple small ones, bout six inches or so. the boy was throwing a mepps for trout and was catching bass so had to tie one on, couldnt get outfished by a ten year old. :dunno: anyways, had fun taking the boys out after school, they love it. will probably wait till it warms up till i go out again.
Ridgefire, Glad you guys had some luck. Seems like there are larger bass in the big pond up the hill. Might still be early with all cold weather we been battling.
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Yep im on the Eastside now.... where the sun shines and the fish have been biting like crazy.
