Steel Dreams Guide Service - Steel Dreams offers fishing adventures on Washington's premier rivers: the Columbia, Snake, and Grande Ronde as well as Idaho's Clearwater. Take your choice of power sled or drifting for salmon, steelhead, bass or sturgeon. Great pricing, quality equipment, and priceless memories make Steel Dreams the best choice for your next epic fishing adventure.
Went out to shadow lake/pond after work. Arrived around 5 pm water was like glass,really beautiful for about 20 min,then a downpour came down for about 30 min and back to being quiet,and peaceful. There were two other guys fishing,I used my favorite setup-a 6inch watermelon pumpkin seed senko,first cast...bam,fish on!!! Didn't know it then,but that was the biggest fish of the day,I can't tell you how long it was or the weight but it's the biggest one in the picture. After a few more casts I pulled out one around 13 inches and basically for the next two hours I caught a total of 6 bass and 3 out of those were pretty good sized,once again I don't have a scale and don't want to estimate how much they weighed cause I'd probly add a few pounds,haha. But size doesn't matter,overall I just had a great time being outdoors and catching the most bass that I've caught in a while,this lake is a little gem,please keep it clean and full of bass:)if you have a light boat you can carry down it'll be pretty easy to catch nice bass since I did pretty good just off the shore,tight lines!!
Yes you can defiantly keep them and eat them,it's just bass are wild fish and no one plants them into lakes so most people practice catch and release,I won't lie I've eaten bass before,they taste great,BUT if I'm looking for a meal I'll go catch perch and makes mini fillets and bread them up and fry them and you got yourself really good fish sticks:) or trout,there plenty of them out there and they taste excellent smoked with alder,I don't see a problem taking a few,just wouldn't recommend doing it everytime,hope that helps:)
Forgot to mention that fish that come from smaller lakes/pond will not taste good due to all the weeds and grass and the meat will taste like your eating mud.
Thats awesome! I've been there a few times, and havent caught much. How are you fishing those senkos? I've been drop shotin finesse worms and havent had a hit. Only caught a 9 incher on a rapella. Caught too many trout this year and want to start focusing on bass.
My favorite is a Texas rigged weightless senko,I had good luck on the green watermelon one,another fisherman came and I gave him a senko and second cast he caught a bass,I'm sure they'll go for any senko,I've just had my luck with the green and I cast it out and let it sink without touching the line and just stay on the bottom,and reel it in super slow,or you can jerk it every few feet and wait. I always like to pretend a bass is watching it so I do different movements to get its attention. but I'm not a pro,just had good luck today,I only started bass fishing last year,but fell in love with it!
Catch and release all the way. That's the best way to keep a healthy bass fishery wherever you are, especially on smaller lakes. Also, the larger bass are not as good of eaters as the smaller ones, under 12'', so there isn't much point to keeping them. I agree with AlexanderS- perch, trout, or panfish make better meals.
Thanks guys for info I just hear people eating them and see post of people catching big ones and always realeaseing and everyone says they are yummy so I was just curious to why people always realease those monsters but u pretty much answered my questions thanks again good catch by the way
Fished this lake few years back no luck on the bass only perch and gills. This this a nice little lake and lots of fish to keep u reeling. Nice catch man
So went tonight for a few hrs with doing as you said! Had 2 bites, one was a monster and snapped my line. Other than that, nothing. Guess you just got all the luck haha. Gonna try again in a tube friday
Good job!,yea there's a lot of big ones out there,I like to use a 12-14 pound line,the big ones tend to break the line especially when they get in the lily pads,I might stop by tomorrow as well.
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Steel Dreams Guide Service - Steel Dreams offers fishing adventures on Washington's premier rivers: the Columbia, Snake, and Grande Ronde as well as Idaho's Clearwater. Take your choice of power sled or drifting for salmon, steelhead, bass or sturgeon. Great pricing, quality equipment, and priceless memories make Steel Dreams the best choice for your next epic fishing adventure.