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I knew weather was going to toasty, so just hoping for a couple of decent hours out on the water. Spotted the Green Beast. I'm thinking I'm going to make my way up to the north end and see if I can catch anything.

2nd thing I noticed at the launch is how clear the water is compared to a couple of weeks ago. As I'm making my way up north, I decide to pull up to one of my honey holes. 1st cast, I miss the fish. 2nd cast, nothing. 3rd cast, fish on! Put up a good fight. ~1.5#, the one in the picture.

A few minutes later, another bass! Another roughly the same weight. This fish was maybe an inch longer, but very skinny. I drift a little bit, but fish the same general area. BAM! Another fish. Another ~1.5#. Continue fishing the hole and woot, 1 more! ~1.75#.

So in the first 20 mins, landed 4 keepers. I saw another chaser on the last bass. I continued fishing the area for another 20 mins, but no more bass. Just felt small nips and follows from perch.

I make my way up north expecting to see AMX. I get there by 9:30AM, but I don't see anyone fishing up in that area. Saw several south by the peninsula with the helicopter though. Fished the treeline. Caught a ~1# by the sunken boat lift. Textbook spot. Expect a fish to be there, and there it was. Too bad it wasn't bigger. Still remember the 3+lb a couple of years ago, when I was using a small swimbait. Dragged the line over it and pop it and let it sink. *sigh*

There's a lot of baitfish up in the north end. Saw tons of perch and bluegills.

As I'm making my way south along the treeline, 2 boats pulled up to the north end and started fishing there. I wonder how they did.

Moved around a bit back and forth across the lake. Caught a couple 5" LMB and SMB off the same dock. The LMB felt much bigger, bc it wrapped my line around some pads. When it broke loose, the fish came flying out of the water towards me, LOL.

Caught another 1.75+lb SMB on a spot where I would expect a fish to be hiding. Had a chaser, but couldn't find it.

I wanted to go back to my honeyhole, but as I'm heading there, saw another boat fishing it, so kept moving. Fished a couple more areas, but it's getting pretty hot out and lots of people on the water. As I'm packing up, I see my sonar light up in 51' of water, with a few large marks nearby.

Used the DS to get down there and waited. Caught me a couple of jumbo perch. Too hot, called it quits. Started off red hot, but in a different sense, ended red hot. So caught 5 ok bass. Several more smaller and dinks. Nothing over 2#.

2nd picture is of a smaller bass, but I really like the color of it.

Amx

7/5/2015 9:58:00 AM

Yup, was too hot to stay past 9am. and had to be sure the dog was ok and taken care of in this heat. I fished an area where I haven't fished for 20 years. One small Largie in a Smallie area. Hmmm. Went back to one area I've fished the past 3 trips and caught some more Smallies up to 2.07. Then went home. Everything on a dropshot, no bites on a tube. The other day everything was on a tube and dropshot, only a perch on a crankbait. 4 days out of 5 was on Sammamish this past week.

Oh ya, yes the fish have been skinny. A good 3 1/2 lb smallie weighed in at 2.62. Skinny fish but a slab body. Lots of pound to 1 1/2 lb Smallies. Acually felt good to fish somewhere other than my usual spots. :-)

chris adams

7/5/2015 10:34:00 AM

Any other lakes doing good that you guys no of? Been going to sawyer everyday can't catch anything over 1 pound
I'm tired of catching dinks lol any other lakes doing good?

Amx

7/5/2015 10:45:00 AM

I haven't been to Sawyer in over a week.

Haven't heard of any local lakes. That lake over by Spokane always seems to kick out good and big fish, Long, or Newman, or Silver, or Clear, or some name like that. There are a couple reports on those lakes the past couple weeks.

Tapps is usually good, but you can't use a boat or the boat launches yet.

the piranha

7/5/2015 1:08:00 PM

I haven't been going because of the heat. I am out side all day at work.
, so haven't been motivated to be in the heat fishing. Plus crappy post spawn. Should be summer pattern soon.

chris adams

7/5/2015 2:01:00 PM

Pretty Shure it's summer pattern already...water temps are around 81/84

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