My head. oops

Nice one!  I think your head is crooked, though...or is that your hat?

Caught this 4 lb. smallie at the fish-in on Saturday. First fish of 2012 for me.

Sure no problem Brian Love the Panic Minnow just email me I can send you bigger pic if you need.

Do you mind if I use the picture on the Panic Minnow website? Nice shot.
Let me know...
Brian

BassAholic wrote on 09/08/11 at 23:54:16:

Went to Lake WA today drive down the sunrise was awesome but I couldn't take a photo going 60 in the truck got there at 7ish saw Marc Medeiros launching his boat.The bite was insane by 10am I stopped counting at 20 lot of them were size like the photo no huge ones but lot of quality. The bite slowed at noon & I was off the lake by 2pm I love September on WA almost no boat traffic weather is great & fish are in good mood. Hope the bite is this good on Saturday for the cast for kinds event.

Yep no fish in that lake 

Sweet fish Thomas.

Was out on the lake on Sunday the 4th and it was a zoo with all the pleasure boaters out there. Still managed to catch some fish in the morning. Saw Henry and he had a boat load of fish in his live well, ran into a school of smallies all looked decent sized. I caught some small ones but managed two decent sized ones. Big one was 4.4 lbs and other was 3.4 lbs. It got to crazy so I got off the water at about 3:00 pm.

I also was out on the 18th and I didn't see you Larry.  Where were you?

I managed to get 7 keepers the biggest going 2.8.  Also landed a largemouth just under 2.  My biggest came in 27 feet of water with a Yes it's true a 176 grub.

Seens like they are just outside the weed lines.

Sunny and warm.

Bill

Hit Lk. Wa. today from 9:30 till 5:30 biggest was a Smally at 3 lbs even and alot of small fish...still seeing schools of fry jetting around and alot of weed debris snagging up spinnerbaits and cranks...all my fish on dropshots along weedlines.

Good to hear from ya Pat....I'll be on Lk. Wa. today and will say hi for ya...hope all is well and you are getting out over there.

I live in Washougal now but I spent 17 years learning how to catch SM bass on Lk Washington. I was on it 40 to 50 days a year. August was always a great month on that lake. However, you have to be willing to troll which is not legal in competition. I used 10 lb braid and a Hotlips med diver CB in rainbow trout. Put your favorite scent on it. If you use any deep diver CB the resistance will just wear you out. If you try this with any mono line you will fail to get the bait deep enough and will be unable to detect light bites or even achieve hook penetration. Your GPS should be reading between 1.5 and 2.0 MPH. Let the fish tell you what speed they like that day. I am currently experimenting with 12 lb Berkley Nanofil. This rig, if you let enough line out, will get the Hotlips to 28 feet if need be. The bait must be making contact with gravel or rock. You guys know the spots. This rig will work all day but try doing this a couple hours before dawn sometime. It tends to catch almost all quality fish if done correctly and in the right area. I don't why but dinks just don't bite it. I once cought two 5# even smallies on consecutive sets. My best August day was 30 fish.
I really miss Lk Washington. You guys have no idea how good that lake is...

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Pat Sotherlund

Summer is normally my best time on Lake WA I could go out & put 10-12lbs in the boat every time with a few 15lb days This year I work my a#$ off to get 5 keepers. Most the guys I talk to out there say the same thing with the rare one who is killing them & then there is magic Mark M. I bow to your master fishing ability 
At first I was just hitting spots that always produced fish in the past but soon found out that was not going to work Just have to junk fish all-day going from 5ft to 25ft Spinner baits Drop shot Sinkos dragging all seem to catch 1 or 2  fish but no pattern Sucks to the point I don't even want to go & I have had lots of time to go but have opted to stay home & do projects.

Says, Lake Washington can be real humbling in the summer.  I went 8/4 with the kids and managed a limit, but nothing special, best fish was around 4lbs, 1 at 3lbs and the rest just keepers, but I fished only grass lines to stay around perch to keep the kids catching fish.  Hit it again on 8/9 and the bite was slow but the big boys were eating and had around 17lbs for the best 5.  The biggest, close to 5lbs had a crawdad in it's mouth when I landed her.  The claw from the crawdad was close to 4" long.  Basically a fresh water lobster in it's mouth already!  Caught them all DS different baits, and a variety of leader legnths as I experimented all day long.  Caught them on grasslines, underwater rock piles and docks.  But it was a really slow bite.  One here one there kind of bite and nothing stacked up on any one spot.

Mark