Im still pretty new to the area, and am learning the lakes and river system as I go along.

I was wondering what kind of bait fish are located around these areas, and what colors resemble them.

The reason for asking, is Im shopping for soft plastics, and would like to match the hatch.

At the moment I know the bass here feed on

perch
blue gill
crappie
trout

what else is there?



Thanks

Can you say Goldfish? (joke)

Legal disclaimer: Mike has never used Goldfish as bait and Goldfish are not a specie of bait fish in NW waters.

I seem to remember the Biologists from the state that spole at our club say a stat of the stomach contents of the SM on Lk WA. Wasn't it 80% sculpin?

I know that I have tried several pretty raindow colored and perch painted baits that have some third world kid airbrushing till midnight. Nothing seems to work better then the natural tones of greens and browns. Can't go wrong with that.

Mike

Hey Mike and everyone else,

I just finished analyzing some data from Lake Washington a while back, and here are the percentages from around 50 smallmouth bass diets in spring of 2005:

41% crayfish
19% stickleback
13% sculpin
10% unidentified fish
6% smelt
3% sockeye salmon
7% cutthroat trout
1% unidentified salmon


Thought you might be interested...

Chris

How can an salmon be "unidentified"?  Hmm...  Either you is or you isn't.