Details: Largemouth Bass with a Crankbait
2 largemouth, both about 15 inches
When it opens, Lake Washington’s sockeye salmon fishery is one of the most popular fisheries in Washington. Starting as early as mid-May, every year fisheries managers count the fish returning through the Ballard Locks to see if there are enough returnin...
Details: Smallmouth Fishing Hot Spot®
Free Fishing Hot Spot®
The Medina shoreline south of Bill Gates’ house is good for smallmouth along the docks. Smallmouth move into the shallows onto the gravel ...more beds during pre-spawn in May and drop-shotting small finesse baits like a PowerTeam® 7" Tickler is best for these early fish. Smallmouth will spawn in a bit deeper water than the largemouth, so depths around 10 feet will hold bass through all phases of the spawn. Reaction and jerk baits like the Livingston Lures® Stickemaster 20 and crawdad-colored crank baits like the Livingstone Lures® Diver Master 14 can be very productive throughout the warmer months.
Lake Sammamish is a freshwater lake 8 miles east of Seattle in King County, Washington, United States. The lake is 7 miles long and 1.5 miles wide, with a maximum depth of 105 feet and a surface area ...
Central Puget Sound is the most populated stretch of Puget Sound, with Seattle smack dab in the middle of the region. The Central Puget Sound offers very good fishing for Chinook, Coho, pink, chum and...
Stocked catchable-size and triploid Rainbow Trout are primary targets. Jumbo-size rainbow (2-4 lbs/each) are stocked annually in the fall around mid-November. Previous sampling has shown a dominant Ye...
Angling opportunities include catchable and larger size Rainbow Trout, Largemouth Bass, Black Crappie, Yellow Perch, and Kokanee. Kokanee and perch fishing can be good in the summer months. Anglers ca...