After hearing that the weeds were not too bad, I decided to try Bay Lake for largemouth bass. It had been 7 years since I fished this lake -- I had given up on it because it was so weedy. Anyway, the weeds are still there but far less than in the past. Fishing solo, I launched the old Bass Tracker onto the lake with warm weather and sunny skies. There was one other boat on the lake but I have no idea what they were fishing for -- I never got close to them. There was also a nice fellow named "Don" fishing for trout from the shoreline. He said he visits washingtonlakes.com but was not a member. I encouraged him to join up. I fished most of the shoreline but the weeds were still bad enough to catch on almost all lures. They were not so bad, however, that I couldn't run my motors almost anywhere around the lake. I hooked only one bass -- about 12 inces on my brand new "Vampire" Rapala size 11. It was the first fish for this lure. I was sure that with a name like Vampire it should be a real fish catcher. I did see one nice bass about 4 pounds crusing around in about 2 feet of water but he didn't like Vampires. It was a beautiful day to be on the water. I didn't want to send a photo of a 12 incher so I attached one that was taken a few years ago at Bay Lake. On that day, I hooked a 4-10 and a 3-8 on back to back cast while fishing with my son.

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