Nateraz

Little one from this morning, fish were in flooded cover and was catching em on spinnerbaits. Picked up the 175 and caught the biggest one of the morning on the first cast (4lb 11oz).

Couple night smallies from last weekend

I haven't been fishing all that much recently due to poor conditions and work. I was able to get a weekend off to go smallmouth fishing. My friend told me the bite had turned off a few days prior to arriving (just my luck). So, to start off, my friend had snapped off his deps 175 earlier that week and asked if he could borrow mine. I give him my bait, although I was looking forward to fishing it. We head out the first day I get there in the afternoon, nothing in the boat for the first 3 hours, just some good hits and such on my deps that my friend is using. I was alternating between an 8" TT and a crank down bait. Around 8 pm, my friend gets 3 small fish on the deps off of 3 consecutive laydowns. I know I don't have another smaller glide so I ask my friend what he's got, I go through his box and find a DRT tiny klash, take the lip out and flip the tail around, and I started fishing. A couple casts later I get my first fish, it's a dink but something sorta clicked. We head over to the other side of the lake and we start fishing, I get bit on the end of a laydown and finally boat a good fish. Around 4.5lbs. We keep fishing that evening but nothing big and pack it in. The next day we head to a different lake, I'm fishing the klash and he's on the deps. We both got some fish, I pulled two 4+ and my friend got some smaller ones. Final day, we go back to the lake we started at, and start fishing weedbeds, see some huge followers but no commits. Later in the afternoon we get a double header, me with the klash my friend on a crank down. We got a couple more fish but nothing huge. We also had some major truck issues but we pulled through.

Got this fish a week ago on the deps, only 5lbs but she fought decent. Got her on my new combo too, now i gotta break it in on a big fish!

Gill baits, i fish lily pad patches, swim docks, etc. I like stuff in about 4-10 foot of water, just out from where there was a large concentration of spawning fish.

How'd you know?

I went out today and shore banged for 8 hours. This lake is not known for big fish, lots of dinks. The weather conditions this past week pushed up our first wave of spawning fish, yesterday a big cold front moved through and pushed most of the bass back offrom and back into a feeding mood. I threw the swimbait for the whole day, around 6 p.m I dumped one around 4lbs out on a weed edge, one that I was fishing for quite some time. About an hour passed and I thought the fish had moved up a it more, I do a long cast and bring my bait over a small ridge in about 6 feet of water and bang, the rest is history. Slightly long write up, but I'm pretty stoked on this fish. She was 6lbs 8oz, 22" long, on a white burrito baits taquito unweighted.

In

I'm up in Vancouver Canada, 1 hour north of Seattle

Went out today for five hours, got two swimbait fish. Both at 5lbs. Hoping to get out again before the first wave of spawners come up. Also got a 6lb 11oz pre spawner flipping, sadly not on a swimbait

No better way to spend 3 hours!

Finally found a big one on the swimbait, it was a long winter and it's finally spring. No scale but she was 23" long and thick

Got my first swimbait fish this year today, went out for around 3 hours after I got out of school and headed to the lake. I got two, and my friend got one, all were on a huddleston 68 special I used a Dobyns Fury 795, with a Daiwa tatula 200Hd with 20lb seaguar invizX florocarbon My friend used a Denali swimbait rod, Daiwa Lexa 300 and 25lb trilene big game

You're a skunk.

I'm in JC!, This should be interesting to see the fish caught on this sucker!

I'm in! Very nice gesture JC!