This report is a bit late. I saw that WDFW had a rainbow stocking at Grandy earlier in October so started thinking that it may have sparked some interest in the bass for some larger swimbaits. We hit the lake and spent a fair amount of time dragging some bigger rainbow and crappie swimbaits through the water. Nobody wanted to play.

Most of the pads are gone but we worked the shoreline under the trees and logs, as well as by the pilings and edges of the remaining pads. We caught one 12" bass on a blue/black Senko. Cranks were actually pretty effective, but it was rainbows up to 20" or so that provided the action. It was fun to watch them charge 10-15' to grab a crankbait just as it got to the boat. We released them all for some of the dedicated trout guys to have fun with.

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