Been dying to get on the water. Today was the day. Waited till about 9:30 for the fog to burn off. Started out trying shallow around docks, lay downs and weeds with a spinner bait and a buzzbait. Only one dink hit the buzzbait came of and hit it again. Started moving deeper till I finally started marking fish about 28 ft. Use a drop shot with a 3" gulp alive minnow. BAM set the hook and line starts stripping off my real after a few runs back down finally get it in the net. 2.11 lb smallie with crawdad chunks in his mouth. Keep working that general area at the same depth and catch about 8 more including 2 dink largemouth. Move further down toward the south east corner of the lake and start marking more fish at 28 ft. Catch a few on the drop shot. Was experimenting with different lures used a roboworm and a craw chunk It did not matter they bit it all. Something big hit and immediately broke my line rather that re-tie I grab my other rod that has a green watermelon jig with a candy craw chunk similar in color to the crawdad leg in the other fishes mouth and begin dragging it along the bottom. Bam solid hit and hook set. Feeling the head shakes and this fish does not want to come up. Finally in the net 3.03 lb smallie. Release it and throw my jig back out sinks to the bottom start dragging it and the rod is almost yanked out of my hand. This fish is big I can hardly get it turned and I start thinking to myself (is there some other species in here I'm not aware of if not this fish is huge). Fish keeps digging and we fight for longer than I would like. Finally get it to the side of the boat. This is the biggest bass I have ever caught in Washington. As I'm netting the fish it jumps hits the net and comes unbuttoned I scream in disbelief still shaking from adrenalin. That fish was between 4-5 lb closer to 5 I'm guessing. It was not meant to be. Hit the west side in 28ft near the ramp catch about 5 more on the drops hot at least one nice one and then it was time to go. These fish were fat and feeding up for winter they were also holding tight to that 28ft depth. Hoping to make it out one more time before the end of the month.

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