Northwest Fishing Reports

I have been wondering about this for a while. I'm out of state now, and been catching some bass down here in Texas, where the water is usually warm, if not hot. Our lakes are, of course, much cooler, so I am trying to figure out how high of a lake can bass survive in in WA. From what I can tell Alder lake and Lake Chelan may be the highest altitude lakes with bass in them, at 1100 and 1200 feet roughly of elevation.

Downs Lake in Spokane county is loaded with largemouth at an elevation of 1958 ft.

Wow, I never would have thought they could survive that high so far north.

pend oreille chain lakes have bass and they are over 3000 ft in elevation