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Appreciate the response. Having comfy boots would be a priority for me as I would anticipate doing some hoofing.

Great photos! What did you get for waders and boots, and what did you think of them? Might be getting some myself soon, so reviews appreciated.

Forecast was for a cool, windy, and cloudy day and that is what it was. Based on that forecast I decided I was going to roll with a Rock Crawler all day. I did, and in 7.5 hours of mostly cranking I caught 15 bass with 4 of them being decent keepers. Smallest keeper was a 16" smallmouth, largest a 3.5 lb. largemouth. For those of you that fish the lower end of the lake, you know there are miles of good looking bank structure to fish a crank bait. I covered a lot of ground throwing the Crawler, lots of no bite bank, but when I did catch one there were usually one or two other bites to be had in close proximity. I had fun, but made a lot of casts and my 68 year old shoulders are barking at me this morning. With the wind, there was very little top water striper activity. I fished a few places with a Ned, but other than a couple of 4 inch smallmouth, nothing seemed interested in the Ned. WT 61-62

Sorry to hear of your condition, we've talked a time or two on the lake in the past. I'll email the guys in a local bass club and see if anyone is interested. If I recall, you are now located somewhere around Bull Shoals?

Cool - having live out there, there are certainly lots of possibilities for fishing salt and fresh. Chum salmon should be running up around Hoodsport WA this time of year, you can catch them wading off the beach. Of course timing is everything.

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Cool, good luck!

Got on the water early, very little wind, a little chilly to start, around 50 degrees. Did some bank beating to start, threw a Rock Crawler, dragged a jig - caught 4 smallmouth, one was a keeper. Decided to go up Indian, but on the way there saw some stripers breaking and ended up pursuing them. They were all around, but finicky. Got one that went around 8 lbs. on a 3.3 Keitech, had one other on briefly. There were a few smallmouth that were near the stripers except closer to the bank, and I also caught 4 more of them, 3 were keepers. The stripers were chasing small shad, I did not have anything to match those little one inch shad and they were ignoring anything else I threw at them. I might go back for them this weekend and I'll be a little better prepared - small spoons ought to work. Might bring some marabou jigs too. WT 62-64

Well good luck Mr. Babler! I'm going to go tomorrow, but I am going to chase the brown fish on the lower end of Beaver. That new Berkely Ripfish looks like a good deep water bait too. I have a couple on the way here.

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I'll bring plates, cups, bowls and plastic ware.

Chunky fish!

There's a bedroom with a queen sized bed that now has your name on it. 👍

I booked the A-Frame for Thursday-Saturday night. Looks like it will lodge 4 comfortably. With tax it's a little over $200/night, so assuming we have a 4-way split, It will be $50 per night. Reply here if you want a reservation.

Just don't mention 2nd breakfast around Rick.

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