Had some fun looking around on Washington yesterday with Mark Maderos.  We only managed to find one fish willing to come to the boat 3 lb 12 0z's.  Caught off Webster 15-20ft on a Crankbait D16 Crawdad.  We were looking for beds and did not see any.  Water around 58 with a moderate North wind.  Thanks Mark for a good day on the water.

BillB

Well thanks Danny, but I'm not used to catching fish that big. Before that my biggest was 6lbs 7oz. I have to thank Rev's boss above for that fish...

I have had some great days at Scapoose Bay.  I remember fishing a cow pasture hole where the Largemouths would leave a blackspinner bait alone.  The key in the old days use to be clumps of toolies.

Rob,

Yeah, Scappoose Bay is right off the Columbia by Mt. St. Helens. Supposedly, there's good largemouth and smallmouth fishing down there. Never fished it myself. Chris S. and Terry S. fished it last weekend and caught a nice limit of smallies. Took 19 pounds to win the tourney I believe, with a big largemouth kicker over 5. But that doesn't impress you, you're used to catching 8-9 pounders during tournaments, right?  Awesome fish by the way!

Danny

Where is Scapoose Bay? Is that off the Mighty Columbia somewhere?

I'm timid to post after the Silver Lake report....wow! Nevertheless, I spent Thursday and part of Friday prefishing for the Federation Qualifier with my Dad. Covered a ton of water and only caught 3 fish, all were nice though, 4, 4-2, and a 4-10...my biggest smallmouth to date. Two on jerkbaits, and the big girl took a dropshotted tiny brushhog. Looks like my Dad might be having back surgery, so I'm trying to find another boater for the Qualifier. If I get to fish, I'll post. Should be a great learning experience for me. On a side note, congratulations are in order to T. Steffenson who landed a 15+ pound spring chinook on a splitshotted lizard during the NW Bass tourney on Scapoose Bay last weekend. Way to go Terry! Unfortunately, Sarge and TS were disqualified when they tried to include that fish with their stringer See you guys soon.

Tight Lines,
Danny

Mark, where were you out there?  I was out there too but I didn't see you.  It was beautiful day, but the fish were tight lipped.  I managed to squeeze out 4, all between 3 to 4 lbs, but I worked my tail off to get them.  3 came in 20 feet on cranks and the other was on a drop shot in the canals in 8 feet.  (56.4 degrees in there). Another day of consistent weather, and things ought to get really good out there.

Hit Washington today and got one for 2.8 lbs on a crank in 16 ft of water.  Forgot to bring the camera, So I wasn't able to look for fish holding on anything.  Beautiful day out there.  I wish I had more time to fish.  Good luck to all in Silver Lake draw.  Everyone will be fishing for 2nd behind me

Mark

I am close behind ya folks! since Feb!

You're not the only one Chris.

I must be doing something wrong.  I think I need to try that old Trout technique called Trolling. 
I hate to say it, but I'm still bassless for the year, can u believe that  ???

As far as color - I was using shad.  But as fast as I am trolling - I don't think color is that important.  Certainly the perch color is a great one on Lake Washington, but speed is a bigger factor - I just don't want to give them too much time to look at it.  (I think it was a size 7?)

By golly I think you have got a good little thing going there Rev.  Except the wind and rain part.  But I guess you have to get it when you can.

Good job.  What size Rapala were you using?  I would think a perch color plug.

Rich

This Monday I went out with just one thing in mind - to experiment with my pre-spawn trolling technique.  The conditions were windy, and wet (rained alot).  But I fished only one depth - 20 feet, and drug the Rapala Shad Rap across flats and along contour lines.  I caught 10 smallies, lost two others.  Four were 4lbs+, three were 3lbs+, and the rest were 2lbs+.  The largest got away at the boat, but the next in line was 4#6oz. 

One thing I did note was that wherever I caught one, subsequent passes caught at least one more.  In other words they are sticking close together.  On one flat I took 5 passes and caught four fish.  Something to play with...

I guess some were at the Silver Lake Open.  I had to be in Ballard about 4pm, so went to the Outdoor Emporium Bass Clinic from 11am > 3pm. Won a $130 G.Loomis spinning rod in the raffle, but turned it into a CBR 841 before I left. It was tough work, but somebody had to do it.  I was  perfectly happy not to be out on Lk. WA in the rain that was coming down around 3:30pm.