[thesankers]

A long day of trout fishing in the seeps made me start to wonder why I like bass so much. About a dozen 14-18" trout had been landed while stripping wooly buggers 15-20 down. The trout took line, jumped, didn't give up easily and generally fought like trout. As the day wound down I started to think that I should try for one last largemouth this season. Ended up catching several.

A hurried move to another lake put me on the bass water with about an hour and a 1/2 of light. The first strike reminded me why I like largemouth so much. Yes a trout fights faster, harder and longer.... but the bass strike is so good.

Sunset on the bass pond:

The flies are fun to tie also:

April is less than 7 months away.

 

[Jim F.]

April is less than 7 months away.

And if we have a mild winter, February & March are even closer . . . c'mon shallow, rocky backwaters that warm early . . .

 

[bakerite]

I had a very similar outing on Wednesday. Unfortunately the bass pond I went to had become covered in some sort of algae glop form turnover, so only one bluegill hit. Nice looking diver!

 

[Carter Burke]

Silver lake in Cowlitz county used to have a great LMB bite in November..

 

[dust in the wind]

some huge gills in that lake too

 

[shotgunner]

SWEET tie. Good to hear your outing was success.

 

[Buzzy]

I admire the quick change of lakes and tactics, nicely done. And as always, beautiful tie!