Northwest Fishing Reports

First one of the year! 3/30/18 Not a giant, but nice to get the monkey of my back! Time for the hunt!

5 pounds 3.2 ounces (5.2 on my digital scale but each .1 = 1.6 ounces)

I actually caught a bass yesterday, but it wasn't THAT big.

Here's a couple of the 5.3 I got today and a 4.

At least I caught 2 today, largies even.

Didnt measure or weigh this time, Im guessing it was around 4lbs

4.01 on a Tiny Klash followed by a 2.6 a few casts later.

Here's a 4.8lb largie from Tuesday and a 4.0 smallie from yesterday.

My biggie for the day today. Along with a bloody thumb from all the lippin.

3.81 Smallie.

Here's a 5.2 I caught on a bait I just made the other day. She took the darker colored one. Choked it in fact, it was way in the back of her mouth. I pulled her out from under a dock with my new Phenix Feather heavy spinning rod I was trying out for the first time today. It passed the test, it handled her perfectly.

I had a good day on 6/7. I beat my previous PB with two fish: a 5.5, followed by a 5.3!

4.5lb SMB. My new PB smallmouth that's been weighed!

Congrats, a fatty for sure.

Seeing as this thread hasn’t seen a post in awhile, I’ll put one up. Caught these last Monday out in the smoke. They weighed in at 5, 4, and 3lbs. The 5 inhaled a knock off of a Grande Bass Airtail Rattler that I made, the 4 on a jig that I made and the 3 on a Picasso Shock Blade.

Great looking fish. Congrats.

Thanks! I think I’m beginning to figure out these Washington bass. So far it’s been quite different than eastern Idaho.

Caught this guy while crappie fishing at night. 1/32 oz crappie jig, 6 lb suffix nano braid line on a an ultralight rod rated for 2-6lb test. It was just over 22 inches long, didn't get an accurate weight though. Maybe 6 pounds? Regardless, its definitely twice the size of my previous personal best! It was an epic battle I wont soon forget.

Great. Congrats on your new personal best.

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I was bassing in May at Clear Lake...got 13" very close to shore 15" by boat launch very, very close to shore...and used that pattern down to south end...got 17" to tie my lake best...then next bass was 18.5" photo would not load...then next bass saw wake he missed it then cast in again see wake and fish on!!! He jumped three times ..20" by 6" wide. I don't own a scale but beat my personal best since 1987 by 1"! (Which I tied in 2000 both at Sunday Lake) I was having a hell of a day!!! Not often you tie and break your lake record on back to back to back bass...good luck out there.... James

Two smallies