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Mason Lake has always been elusive to me. Looking at a map, there doesn't seem to be any true points, ledges, etc.... Just docks, some lay downs, and some scattered grass (especially in the eastern cove).
So, I was hoping to find them on my lowrance, but that didn't happen! Windy , overcast, and rainy. Tried the grassy area in the cove; nope! Threw Texas rigged donkey chow, spinnerbaits, topwater plug, crankbaits...... Nothing!

Caught one on a wacky rigged senko under a dock. Don't know why it was there because the sun was definitely not out.

Worked all the way south and followed the West Bank north. Finally hit another western cove and started using drop shot around an inflatable slide in 30 feet of water. Got one! Not big, but one. Started moving further towards the deeper docks and caught the almost 4# out in the middle of nowhere in 25 feet! Don't understand it. Caught a few more around lay downs and deep docks.

If there is anything I don't like, it's drop shotting and senko fishing. But it's almost the only thing I've caught them on in western WA. Having a hard time patterning them and end up on docks almost every time.

CAN ANYONE HELP ME NOT BE SO UNEDUCATED!!!!!

bob johansen

9/9/2016 7:52:00 AM

I fished Mason Lake a few times and found it to be a great perch fishing lake but a bit tough for largemouth bass. I caught my biggest bass in that shallow cove just to the left of the access. That fish hit a long cast floating Rapala 11 S near a log in very shallow water. She was 18 inches, 3 pounds and 7 ounces. That was on May 31, 1998.

cobrar543

9/9/2016 9:45:00 AM

I used to fish that place every weekend. Trout were great and bass in the shallow end all the way back in to the creek. Miss it. Thanks for the report that it is still alive

Why2Fish

9/9/2016 4:04:00 PM

Dont know why this lake is not managed more for kokanee than it is. Surface acres, volume, depth are all conducive to a kokanee fishery. The latest I can find about plants of koks into this lake is in 2013. Anyone know anything different?

bothellbassman

9/9/2016 5:53:00 PM

Nice lookin largemouth!
I have been trying to drop shot and senco fish the last several times out because it always seems like I end up fishing rapalas and crank baits around docks and shoreline structure. I grew up fishing rapalas and I have a lot of confidence in that type of presentation. Plastics not so much!
I know it is a presentation that works so in order to get better at it, practice, practice...
There are some really good videos on YouTube about drop shotting and maybe some guys on here will give you some tips.
Good luck!

Dan360

9/11/2016 10:31:00 AM

More and more I am fishing off shore in less obvious areas. I have been having good success cranking in 20 to 30 FOW with a good break. Fish have been suspended off the breaks.

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