Northwest Fishing Reports

You've been picked to be on some gimicky/rinky-dink bass fishing competition on TV with a grand prize of a million dollars. You'll be fishing on your favorite lake versus every BASSMASTER/FLW angler of the year from the past 10 years. You can take one rod/reel and one lure/bait. What lake are you on and what do you choose?

I'd be fishing Lower Granite Lake or around Cascade Locks for smallmouth using my new Shimano Crucial Spinning rod with Stradic 2500 reel loaded with 10lb Fluorocarbon. 1/0 Gamakatsu wide gap off-set hooks, 1/8 oz bullet weight and watermelon Yamamoto Tubes.

Dobyns 693 spinning rod, Shimano Syncopate 4000FG spinning reel, 10 or 12 pound P-Line floro. Jig, 3/8 to 1/2 oz. Craw trailer, or no trailer. Potholes in May/June.

dobyns 744 champ extreme, curado 200e7, 20lb sunline, custom handtied jig, any small trout planted lake.

El Salto and a big ol swimbait...

What time of year is it? That might make a difference in what I bring.

Other than that, I'd bring my Loomis STR1082c and my Curado 200e7 spooled with 12 lbs Maxima. I'd bring this suspending jerk bait that my grandad passed down to me, my all time favorite lure to use. I'd be fishing largemouth on Lewis County's Swofford Pond.

Dobyns 744 savvy series ,Seated with a Quatum PT Tour Burner , seemed with 17lb Sunline Fluoro with a 3/4 oz Spinnerbait with double willow blades . My lake pick would be Lk Erie in Michigan during the spawn in june .. I would love to go toe 2 toe With the bassmasters elite pro's !

natetreat wrote:What time of year is it? That might make a difference in what I bring.

Other than that, I'd bring my Loomis STR1082c and my Curado 200e7 spooled with 12 lbs Maxima. I'd bring this suspending jerk bait that my grandad passed down to me, my all time favorite lure to use. I'd be fishing largemouth on Lewis County's Swofford Pond.

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That is a nice looking jerk bait. Its shape reminds me of the first one I made.

I don't have much of a bass arsenal rod wise, so I guess it would have to be my Shimano Crucial Casting Rod mated to my Curado 101D.

Bigbass Dez wrote:Dobyns 744 savvy series ,Seated with a Quatum PT Tour Burner , seemed with 17lb Sunline Fluoro with a 3/4 oz Spinnerbait with double willow blades . My lake pick would be Lk Erie in Michigan during the spawn in june .. I would love to go toe 2 toe With the bassmasters elite pro's !

You will someday Dez,, Someday..

The rod brand ? heavy, fast action. Reel I like the Quatum PT. Line at least 65 lb braid. Lure 3/4 oz jig with two split tail trailers or two craw trailers. Toledo Bend, La. April or May. or Lake Seminole Fl. same time of year.

Lake Washington in January. Loomis 853 Glx with Ardent xs600, 10lb Sunline, 3/4oz football head, and a grub. No way in a 100 years would I lose!