Shannon, Cavanaugh, Ozette, Cushman, Merwin, Yale, Swift Creek Res.? The late Dick McElhiney used to fish Shannon. I have been told that Ozette, Cushman and Merwin have bass, don't know about Yale and Swift Creek, but I think we oughta find out. Anybody fish Mayfield for bass? How about Lk. McMurray? Lk. Ki? Flowing Lk.? Why not? I think we need to find out if these lakes a) have bass and b) would be good for club activities.  It seems to me that there are more lakes closed until "last Sat. in April" than ever before, and with this year's weather, I think that's a darned shame. 

C&R, Steve

My understanding is that Lake McMurray doesn't have any bass, but I could be wrong.  Bass aren't listed on the WDFW regs.  The "ramp" is nothing more than a sloping gravel bank.  Speed limit is 5mph.

Lake Ki has bass, but the "launch" is horrible - really only feasable for car toppers.  It may be a trolling only motor lake as well, but perhaps by default due to the launch.  There's no parking lot to speak of either.

There's bass in Flowing lake too.  I've fished it before out of a fiberglass, so the lauch/facilities are good.  It's in a park, however, so you're subject to gate hours.  Been over a decade since I've been there, though, so I'm not sure how it is today.

I fished Mayfield for bass as well, but was only marginally successful.  The club had a weekend picnic there once, so we've had a club activity there before.  The campground there is pretty decent (well, at least it was then - some 11 years ago).  It's very picturesque. The contours are wild - you can have the front end of your boat in 2' and the back end in 70'.  The muskie fishing, I hear, is pretty good though.

Anyone know about Alder Lake? It always looks nice with the stumps and ditches.

i have drove by it a few times and it looked sweet. All the text book structure. I wasn't sure how cold that water got or how warm it got either. I thougt I read about some people catching fish on some site a few years ago. I guess I have to give it a try.