Fished a small pond with a buddy and caught a couple of nice Bass

There is a little lake we fish in the summer that produces some fat
largemouth so Mark H. and I thought we would see if we could catch any in the winter. We arrived about 8:30am, drilled some holes (ice was 8-10") and got to jigging. The skys were overcast and calm though a stiff breeze would kick up once in a while but only for a few minutes.
I used a swedish pimple & Mark used a 3/16 jig head, both tipped with worm. Half an hour in I have a nice little bass, maybe a pound. 10 minutes later my buddy lands one, a little bigger. Then nothing until about 1:00pm. The bite was slow and sporadic all day but we ended up with a number of perch and bluegill, 2 bass, and a crappie.
Mark did have something grab his jig hard enough to pull out the drag but unfortunately he must have been daydreaming because he missed it! Maybe next time. Not really anything to write home about but all in all, not a bad day on the ice.

Went out for some ice fishing on saturday, Arrived on the ice about 8:30 am and drilled several holes. tipped a jig with worm and the first fish was a large mpouth bass about 16 inches long, also caught some perch and crappie, Had a great time and will be back for the bigger ones. Still trying to get pics from a trip the weekend before cought 3 large mouth bass and two of them are bigger than the one posted, will post pics when i get them, Hopefully the weather holds up and stays cold in the north.

Another amazing day. We fish tidal water this time. My buddy was on fire until he broke his pole(ouch). He already caught 8. I kept my last 2 so he did'nt have to stand around the rest of the day. The hen was about 9 lbs. and had sea lice on it still! The buck was a shade under 15lbs.
The usual float/jig. I can't think of any other tips to tell you, other than to maybe sell your soul so you have have gas to make the drive out to better rivers. Round trip today was about 270 miles. we fish about 4 hours.

I was in the southwest area of the state. I just found a outstanding river so I'm goin to be greedy for a while. my buddy and I hooked 8 and landed 5. I think it was my best day ever for steel. We only threw jigs as usual. Half were caught on pink and half were on nightnare w/the pink body subsitute. I kept my first fish(the hen about 9lbs) I let the buck go so I could keep fishin which resulted in a lost chrome hen at the bank and landing a beautiful native hen about 10lbs. My buddy just kept one hen about 5lbs.
The river was low and clear, you just have to change were you fish and cover a lot of water. We will fish all rapids and fast riffles, then just into the deep part of the hole. We never fish any tail outs. also, we both wear spotting glasses, which are more for finding channels, rocks or any structure we think the fish will hold by. If we do find a fish we will work hole harder and change up colors or just leave and give the fish a rest them come back. Again, always using shrimp oil. Last, I will change leader length about 100 times or so in 6in. increments. I try to find bottom then bring it back up a few in. I hope that helps and/or motivates someone to fish low/clear.
I also bought a new pole. I always have used long poles so I went with an Okuma 13'6" 2-8 lb. fast action. It is center pin style. I put on P-line "cx" 12 lb and it match pretty good. with the fast action you can reef on those fish no problem. The two big one still burned about 75yds. of line though. I'm gonna try to film my drag screeming next time!

Fished from sunrise (a little after 7) until about 10 using peach powerbait with garlic smelly jelly. Landed two 16"ers and lost one a little bigger at the dock. Tons of bites and had a blast.

Out and about on vacation. Guess the fish species and location...

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We took our annual 3 day vacation to the upper Stehekin Valley. Did some hiking and threw #8 to #12 Stimulators and Hoppers at wild cutts and 'bows. The company was terrific, the fish were eager and the scenery was the best on earth. I'm renewed and ready to go again.

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Got our early to the lake this past weekend, and caught some nice crappie. 22 in total all ut 3 above 10 inches. two nice erch as well for the fryer.

I had heard rumors of large trout inhabiting a C&R only pond in a private community in the Bothell area. Fortunately I had access through family members and went out to fish it last night. The lake was C&R, no bait so I stuck to using spinners most of the night. Started with some Blue Foxes I bought and lost one into a tree overhanging the water immediately. Switched over to a larger Rooster Tail and missed a couple taps before picking up a decent sized (Would guess 12") Rainbow. I continued to move down the lake missing another couple taps before landing my second (and final) trout. This one was a bit bigger than the first, maybe 14"?

I briefly thought I'd discovered the giants talked about, but it turned out to just be a school of Carp floating around. I hear they don't like them in there so I volunteered to remove them if they would like. It'd be a fun fight at least and it's only a few minutes from home :)

So in short, as far as I can tell there are no "monster" trout in this lake, or at least nothing bigger than holdovers you'd find in the stocked lakes in the area.