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By: arniejl
Posted: 6/1/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished this afternoon and evening. Caught one on a 7" power lizard no weight and weedless, skipping it from pad to pad. Caught the other on 7" powerworm in blue fleck. Overall, pretty darn slow. Spent...
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By: arniejl
Posted: 5/27/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished this afternoon for bass and an hour or so of that for Crappie. No Crappie, so let's get that out of the way. Did manage to get two bass to pose for pictures before their release back to their a...
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By: arniejl
Posted: 5/24/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This was a long day, a beautiful day, yes, but long. Fished Kapowsin hard, by myself in my littel boat. 3rd cast of the day caught a 12" LMB. 5th cast caught a 10"LMB. 5 hours later, I caught my nex...
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By: arniejl
Posted: 5/23/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Let me see how many ways I can type this out. 0 for Alder Oh for Alder 0 4 Alder Oh 4 ahl-durr 5th trip this year to Alder Lake and, once again, the big NADA! Fished the shoreline for a ...
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By: arniejl
Posted: 5/21/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, live next to Spanaway and always said that I would never pay to launch my little boat.....but, I did. I always wanted to give it a try out there. Was on the lake at 8:00 and off at 5:00. Was sup...
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By: arniejl
Posted: 5/20/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished here yesterday and caught two dinks and many rock bass, maybe 50. Today started out on south side of lake fighting the wind but it was so warm. Had trouble keeping the boat anywhere near w...
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By: arniejl
Posted: 5/18/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
OK, OK, I acknowledge that fact that do not know how to fish this lake. Everybody gets 4 and 5 star days, but I suck, totally. I have came to the conclusion that I am adequate, for a noob, fishing sh...
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By: arniejl
Posted: 5/16/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Swofford for the first time ever with a friend that lives in Morton (he has never fished it, either). Got on the water around 1:00 p.m. and instantly started catching bluegill with a small Rapa...
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By: arniejl
Posted: 5/15/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, my skunks are adding up. Should have stuck with Chambers, I guess. Got to Tanwax way early. Had stuff to do and then off to Elma for the Sprint cars, so, on the lake at 5:30a.m. and off shortl...
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By: arniejl
Posted: 5/14/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took my kid out after work, again, to Tanwax. Was fishing by 5:15, or so. I fished plastics, for the most part, with some crappie jig tipped with worm, here and there. My kid fish some crankbaits, an...
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By: arniejl
Posted: 5/9/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 7:15 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. with nary a bite.
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By: arniejl
Posted: 5/6/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took my son bass fishing for the second time. Fishing was real slow today, but, my kid finally caught his first bass. A one pounder, or so, caught on a floating Rapala. A bit later I caught a couple, ...
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By: arniejl
Posted: 5/2/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around 11:30. Windy is the keyword. I ran down to the far end of the lake thinking that, with the wind direction, it would be managable there. It was OK, but still a challenge. Casting...
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By: arniejl
Posted: 5/1/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got onto Tanwax about 2:30 p.m. in search of LMB. Seen a guy pulling out with a decent bass boat and talked to him for 15 minutes while waiting for my buddy. This guy had caught no bass, so I figured ...
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By: arniejl
Posted: 4/24/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy had caught bass here before but it was my first trip to ths lake. It was sad. I seen a lot of trout caught and some full stringers, but we wanted bass. We did catch 4 or 5 rainbows in the pro...
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By: arniejl
Posted: 4/21/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I have a good friend that lives less than 10 minutes to Chambers Lake and he has, in the past, fished it quite a bit but never had any luck for bass. I read Dave newby's report the other day for this...
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By: arniejl
Posted: 4/20/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Finally broke the 2010 jinx. Today was my 7th trip of the year and my third to Kapowsin and I finally caught a bass. Used plastics and what not, to no avail, and finally put on a spinner that is kind...
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By: arniejl
Posted: 4/18/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Put in at the nice ramp at the town of Alder. was fishing by 8:00. Fished either direction from the launch for a couple hours and then headed out into the big part of the lake. Went across the lake to...
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By: arniejl
Posted: 4/11/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Tough for me to make an accurate rating on today. My report is on Bass and I gave it a 3 star rating, but truth to the matter is, I never hooked a single bass. If I had targeted Rainbow trout, the...
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By: arniejl
Posted: 3/24/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
First off, fished Alder Lake on Friday. Put in at Rocky Point and fished around there and across lake near the big point. Tried most all bass tactics and only mustered up an 8" Kokanee caught on a Rap...
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By: arniejl
Posted: 3/4/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Thought that we would get an early jump on St. Clair but the lake taught us a lesson. Fished from 8:30 a.m. until about 1:30 without as much as a single bump. Tried most everything. Drop shot with sen...
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By: arniejl
Posted: 6/11/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My fishing buddy and I hit St. Clair this afternoon. We fished from 1:00 p.m. until 6:00 or 6:30. I, personally, caught 4 little guys and got each one of them on a dropshot with a 6" natural colored ...
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By: arniejl
Posted: 6/2/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Good news bad news. Took my Gal Bass fishing as she has never done it and I am trying to learn it. We did absolutely no good, what so ever. In fact, from 11:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. we caught a total o...
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By: arniejl
Posted: 5/27/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Short report for Kapowsin. Fished from 9:00 or 9:30 until about 3:30. Caught four or five Rock Bass, one big Bluegill, and one LMB about a pound or a little bigger.
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By: arniejl
Posted: 5/23/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/22/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished solely for spiney rays. Fished the docks and along the shoreline. Caught roughly 30 rockbass and one accidental rainbow. Understand that I am not really a bass fisherman, and that I am trying t...
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