Hit Benson Lake fairly early - overcast and a little breezy as I launched. Met up with nice guy, talented bass angler and WL.com member TM (Todd). We had a nice chat and caught a lot of fish during the talking. Unfortunately, we never caught any during the casting. I guess you might say, "I got skunked" but I prefer to think like a WL member posted a while back, "I enjoyed taking my bass gear for a nice boat ride." And, it was nice to meet up with Todd. The breeze increased to a point that I wrapped it up about noon. Tood was still casting after the big one when I left - Hope he got him.

First one to the launch, 5:25am, worked my way around to favorite reeds and laydowns.
Caught 4 bass,missed one, largest only 15". Went to Anderson lk. in Allyn (private) caught
5 there all small. Nice day on the water.

After reading a report from Bob Johanson me and my gf decided to give Benson a try. We got there about noonish and as we were lauching we bumped into Todd. He had a nice 3lb bass and took a picture of him and the bass. As for us the fishing was slow. We had a ton of bites mostly from bluegills biting our worms. I had a 1.5lb bass on but lost it when it got to the boat. We did see a couple bass that were at least 5lbs but couldn't get them to bite. I did manage to get a 14" trout with my black 5.75" yamamoto kutail worm. That's only the second time I caught a trout while fishing for bass.

Arrived at Benson lake 5:30 am, started casting floating rapala to reeds at north end,
caught 3 nice largemouth,released fish.Thanks to Bob Johansen for reports.Look foward to
meeting Bob at Benson lake sometime.

The weather man promised a nice warm, sunny day and he was right. After all the bad news chest X-rays and CT-scans, it was time for a nice relaxing day on the water. My neighbor, Mike L. and I headed for one of my fall favorites, Benson Lake. Benson Lake does not allow gas engines, has clean, clear water and very little aquatic vegitation. It also has a nice population of largemouth bass that I think are probably underfished -- mainly because bass boats with outboards are not allowed. Anyway, the wind was calm as we arrived and the lake was smooth as glass. I launched first and while Mike was launching, I made my first cast with a Rapala. Fish on! It was a nice 12 incher that I landed while Mike watched. Mike is a fly fisherman but after seeing the results of that first cast, he tied on a bass fly. He went north and I went south. I hooked several bass including a nice 171/2 incher. I must have hooked about 25 bass during the day. All but the 17 incher were on a floating Rapala. The 17 incher hit a jig. Most were small but besides the 17 incher I also boated a 16 incher and a 14 incher plus some others that were about a pound. I also had a great surface strike on the Rapala that turned out to be a nice 14 inch rainbow. The rainbow dove down and tangled with a big limb but with my braided Power Pro line, I landed both the limb and the rainbow. Mike caught some trout on his fly rod. Nice day on the water.