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Fazon Lake Report
Whatcom County, WA

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08/08/2016
71° - 75°
Bottom Fishing From Boat
Largemouth Bass
Black
Mostly Sunny
Jig
Afternoon
66° - 70°
08/08/2016
3
1243

Still thick with the green stuff so I just went ahead and started with the Senko. I was about 75 yards in to the right (east) of the launch before anything touched it. It was a dink fest for a bit until a decent 1.5 grabbed it. Then it was slow until the turn back towards the west, in that little cove I pitched into a hole in the pads, felt the tap and game on! Finally a decent bass! He tried his best to wrap me around the pads but fortunately I had changed spools from 8lb mono to 14lb and got him free of the pads where he made a couple nice runs before I got ahold of his mouth, 4lbs even. I continued back west hitting a dink / pounder here and there. All along the shore frogs were spooking and jumping into the lake from the reeds as I passed, this gave me an idea and out came the flipping stick! I did another lap pitching and flipping a Z-Hog on a 1 ounce tungsten pegged into every little crack in the pads starting as close to shore as possible and working out towards the edge. This nabbed decent bass #2 a 3lber and a few more pounders and a couple misses. Once the pads were picked apart I decided to head out deeper and drag 7 and 10" worms along the bottom. The only nibble here was on the 10" and I don't know what the little guy was thinking? I just held pressure and let him tug for all he was worth until he dropped it. Besides that I has zero other action and departed at about 1-2pm.


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bob johansen
8/9/2016 8:09:00 AM
Nice Report - Nice catch! I like 15 pound Power Pro braid when fishing in or near the pads. At times I have even used 30 pound Power Pro. It still has a small dia.
Spaceyak1000
8/9/2016 2:52:00 PM
Does it seem like the pads are denser this year? Frogging has been sort of lame because the Seattle area lakes do not have an gaps in the pads.
8theB8
8/9/2016 2:58:00 PM
Depends on the species of pad as well as the lake level. It doesn't take much weight to flip through them so most times flipping is my option. Although frogs are more fun! Even if they miss.
Jamesb
8/10/2016 8:42:00 PM
Sounds like a good day.
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