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https://sdfish.com/forums/attachments/image-jpeg.82063/ yeah, two weeks ago I couldn't get them to eat the frog anymore down here, so went jerkbait. Not too good at it, but got a new PB in numbers after 2/3rds of a day, 57. But got it down pretty good, and landed 70 last week, upping the PB by quit...

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I've been using the 6'8 ML Recon 683 with a Curado 70 and it is great for smaller jerkbaits like you mentioned. Everything up to a Vision 110 is great and the length is just right.

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Nice! We're in a similar situation out here in Colorado. Enjoying the open water fishing while we can assuming the winter hammer is going to drop any day now. What jerkbaits were you guys using? I have my go-to jerkbaits, but always looking for some new baits to add to the line up. Yes, same situat...

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mark poulson wrote:Soooo....what's your vacation spot?

Vegas. Need some sun.

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I made another trip out Friday to try for some December bass. That may not seem difficult to do if you live in California, but in my area of Washington, it is a rarity. Some years the lakes are frozen and people are already standing on the ice fishing in December, but not this year. They are still b...

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interesting....guess we'll see soon enough!

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Yesterday I posted about my struggles on my last trip out. 41-degree water and zero bass. Since my buddy Yah-Tsheng Moua has been catching them, I decided to ask him to go with me. What a difference between the two trips. The water actually got colder, the air was 33-degrees when we launched and sno...

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mark poulson wrote:
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mark poulson wrote:
It looks like a Binsky:

http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Blade_Ba ... -ZLAN.html
It does. I'll have to ask and see which one it is. The crappie loved it
Ask him what size he was using, too.

It is indeed a 1/2 oz Binsky

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mark poulson wrote:
milehi wrote:What is that bait? I've been throwing silver buddys for years, great bait but don't know that one
It looks like a Binsky:

http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Blade_Ba ... -ZLAN.html

It does. I'll have to ask and see which one it is. The crappie loved it

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Yesterday I made it out to the lake and was greeted with 40.6-degree water temperature when I launched the boat. That made it very difficult for me to find any bass, but some people I know are still catching them...and big ones! The surprising thing is how shallow they are fishing and having success...

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milehi wrote:What is that bait? I've been throwing silver buddys for years, great bait but don't know that one

honestly not sure. That was my buddy who caught that one. My personal favorite blades are the Biovex Padas and the Bass Pro one.

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Gotta love the blade bait. I was introduced to it about 3 years ago on the Potomac. It's killer in the dead of the winter for bass. We used it a little on Berryessa the other day and my son caught a 3-4 lb largemouth out of 50 feet. Also hammered on the striper in the Delta with it last week in 20 ...

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We've had a nice break in the weather this week and actually had a record high for Thanksgiving. Temps in the low 50's in late November is a rarity in Spokane so of course, I had to go fishing. The water is still cold, mid 40s, so the blade bait has been the best performer lately. We also caught a f...

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This fall it seems like most of my smallmouth fishing has been centered around fish feeding on this little landlocked salmon. I have been keying on smallmouth eating them on lakes throughout Washington and Idaho and this last trip I got an up close look at the Kokanee that the bass have been eating....

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mark poulson wrote:When will it show up on the Webapp? It still doesn't show your Delta updates.

It's live on the website now. Same place?

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mark poulson wrote:Will the Navionics Webapp be updated, too?

Yep. It will update across the board: ChartViewer (WebApp), ipad and phone app as well as those who update their cards for heir graphs.

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Friday was one of the best smallmouth days I have ever witnessed with 24lbs of smallmouth biting in one hour. Sure, it was Friday and wasn't a weekend with tons of boats out or wasn't "official" in a tournament, but it sure was fun. http://www.thebassbite.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/201...

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milehi wrote:Should have seen that. So the lakes freeze over? Curious way you quit smallmouth fishing

Yep, all of the smaller lakes freeze over. The bigger ones just freeze in bays. Really the biggest issue is finding somewhere to launch on alot of them when there is snow everywhere.

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milehi wrote:You on the eastern side?

Yep, Spokane

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Right now is my favorite time of year to be living in the Pacific Northwest. The weather is getting colder, half of the fisherman are out hunting, no pleasure boats and the smallmouth are chewing. I went out Friday and had two over 5lbs almost back to back from the same small underwater point. Its l...

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Thanks for the info. I bought the Navionics SD Card that I plug into my Lowrance unit. I have the Navionics app downloaded to my iPad and iPhone too, but it asks me to procure the service for $50. I thought when I bought the service for the SD Card the app service came free. Did I misunderstand? Th...

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Living in Washington, I basically live in my raingear in the spring and fall when I'm fishing. I have Gill bibs and jacket and they are awesome. Warm, very dry and lots of pockets.

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Not an expert on Washigton LMB fishing however lived in the Lake Washington area for about a year back '70. LMB back then were considered trash fish and never ran across another bass angler the year I fished lake Washington and it was excellent bass fishing back then. Trout, Steelhead and Salmon ar...

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I don't know much about Washington bass, but that is a healthy bass. Seems to be feeding well. I remember about 20+ years ago a friend moved to Washington state. He called me a few months later and said the bass fishing was excellent and nobody fishes for them, just salmon and trout! I'm sure that ...

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Good Lord that's a FAT bass. It's so frickin thick it almost looks like a smallmouth..lol. Thanks for the info though. Funny, it fits the same things I believe I should be looking for on the Delta right now based off some other information I've been reading on in the past day or so. It was very thi...

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HenderT wrote:That is an incredible catch!

Thanks!

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This season has been strange for me. I have caught tons of giant bass but have generally done pretty average in tournaments. In fact, I can recall three or four days when one fish was half of my total weight. I can't complain though, it has just been interesting that I can find one really good one a...

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This past weekend I made my first trip to Dworshak Reservoir in Idaho for a club tournament. It is the home of their state record smallmouth at close to 10lbs! It is a remote fishery with hardly any cell service or basically anything but wildlife. Getting takes a series of steep drops into the canyo...

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The Spokane Bass Club annual two-day event was held on Dworshak Reservoir in Idaho. The lake has a reputation for giant smallmouth and although nobody hooked into a true trophy, there were several quality fish brought in. All of the fish were thick, healthy and mean as they have started to feed heav...

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I use the o-rings and just use various sizes for different worms. Have been thinking of using some sort of tubing like you mentioned to make them last a little longer and so the worms don't fly off.

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http://www.thebassbite.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/wdfw-logo3_t810.jpg The Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife recently released an announcement that they were trying to simplify their fishing rules. This sounds like a great idea because their rules pamphlet is like a textbook. There ar...

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Our September tournament was held on the Pend Oreille River out of Morton Slough. The cool fall temperatures should have made the fishing excellent, but the results did not show it. Most of the field reported catching numerous fish, but the big fish eluded us and didn't make it to the scales. Taking...

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Fall is basically here in the PNW and that means the smallies are going to be eating. Some of the best lakes in the area for smallmouth have one thing in common, plenty of kokanee. Just like the kokanee eaters in NorCal, the fish get really fat if kokanee are around. Lake Coeur d'Alene in Idaho and ...

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I have thrown the NuTech jigs for a few years now and they are a phenomenal bait and they stand up to the hype given them! I just got back from a trip to Clear Lake and fished 1/2oz brown/orange combo football head and knocked the snot out of em. I did not catch any pigs this trip but they put seve...

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The weather is starting to cool and it is getting closer to my favorite time of year to fish, fall in the Northwest. I went out to a local lake the other day despite all of the smoke from the wildfires. We caught fish on a variety of different techniques and landed some nice largemouth and smallmout...

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This summer has been pretty tough for me fishing wise. I have been catching tons of fish, but the bigger ones have been really hard to come by. One angler who has been catching some nice fish is a young angler who lives down the street from me, Noah Whitten. He has been hitting the Spokane-area lake...

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These past few weeks have been pretty slow for me fishing wise, but I was able to help kids get involved in fishing on two occasions. I have done it many times before, but I still forget just how rewarding it can be. I hope this is a reminder for everyone to take kids fishing if you have a chance. T...

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The Fishing Hole is a local tackle store in Spokane, WA that is inside of an ACE Hardware. They have a big following thanks to their great selection of bass gear and this year they decided to hold an open tournament. The entry was $100 per team and both team members received a Bass Mafia box stuffed...

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Our annual night event was again held on Newman Lake. The tournament hours were 7pm to 7am, making it a marathon event and allowing anglers to fish the evening, night and morning bite. The fishing was good with nice largemouth and smallmouth brought to the scales. This was also the first event with ...

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Actual pull test data using Palomar, Uni, SD jam knot would be meaningful, in lieu of trust me it's good finesse line. Tom Thanks for the comment. Have no way to test it, but my experience is based on fishing it heavily. Have found that I like it more as a mainline since it is so soft and have had ...

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The Tatsu has a softer outer core, not the other way around as suggested in the video. Correct. I misspoke in video, but the key is having both soft and hard resins fused together for strength, abrasion resistance as well as manageablity and knot strength. Hard-resin core for more tensile strength ...

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I have friends who live near Coeur d'Alene (Post Falls). I have never fished the lake but have been all over it by boat. It seems to me it would take years to properly learn that huge lake. One would have to learn the weather patterns for a lake that big too. Big wind could be a problem. I have bee...

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A few days ago I went out to Lake Coeur d'Alene in northern Idaho. It's an excellent lake and one that always takes 20+ pounds to win a tournament. We wouldn't have had 20lbs with 30 fish that day though. The fish were biting, but the big ones were nowhere to be found. http://www.thebassbite.com/wp-...

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Yesterday I made it out to a local lake north of Spokane and caught fish many different ways. I was able to catch some in less than 2 feet of water and also as deep as 35ft on a Neko rig. This made me think about the best way to catch big ones during the summer. What do you think is the best approac...

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This year was the first time that Lake Roosevelt was ever on the SBC schedule. The event was originally planned for Porcupine Bay but we had to move the tournament to Ft. Spokane due to Porcupine being closed. This allowed anglers to run just about anywhere on the lake and the field was split with s...

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BuzzBaitBomber wrote:great post ill check out the Baby Boom. I really like the way it looks. Only one size offered?

The original came out last year and is a 6 inch size. It comes in a weighted version with internal weight and a weedless version as well.

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I returned from ICAST last week and was able to hit the water with some new items yesterday. Each year when they release the new items I seem to always end up coming back with a few things to try. This year I brought back the new LIVETARGET sunfish swimbaits, Optimum Baby Boom Boom swimbaits and a f...

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I've been using the Abu Ike 7'10" MH Delay series with a Shimano Tranx and it works really well.

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It's been a weird year here in the PNW. The ice took longer than normal to melt and it was pretty cold all spring. The result was a later than normal spawn and some places still have tons of beds. I fished a tournament last weekend and sight fishing was a viable way to get a check and that is rare t...

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