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Silver Lake Report
Cowlitz County, WA

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07/22/2008
Largemouth Bass
All Day
07/22/2008
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Just got back from our 3-day trip to silver lake. I got there on Sunday and the bass tourney was in progress. The first day was real rough covered allot of water and no fish. Once the tourney was over I started catching fish. The water was very stained. Ended up catching pretty much dinks the whole trip with the exception of a few 2 pounders, but I didn't have my camera with me for my better fish but the fish in the pics are what I was catching allot of. I had one good 7 pounder take a swipe at my popper and missed. I went back to that spot 3 different times and never saw that fish again. I lost one 4 pounder at the boat!

The wife and kids had fun they caught crappie, perch, bluegill, a few bass, and some catfish.

Successful baits were topwater popper and buzzbait in the morning and evening and in the afternoon it was gary yammamoto flippin hawg, and pig and jig for structure and crankbaits on the rocks. Lost allot of crankbaits but the key was to get the crankbaits deep enough to tick on the rocks.

Got to try my new tube out didn't know how good it will be with my bass boat but it turned out good and was pretty fun. Ohhh, the look on a 6 year old's face when they are scared and having fun at the same time. Ended finding a stranded family with a dead battery so we gave them a jump.

All in all, it was a good trip and worth the drive. My only complaint is there is just way too much lilly pad growth. I highly recommend the motel resort for families, my family loved fishing off the back porch.


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Denman
7/22/2008 4:15:00 PM
nice report. fishing off the back porch with the family...can't get any better than that.
kevinb
7/22/2008 4:32:00 PM
Nice work Derek, Sorry to hear about the one's that got away but sounds like a great trip and an added bonus getting the family on fish.I'll have to get the family down there. Great report too!!!
kzoo
7/22/2008 6:04:00 PM
Too bad about the hawg getting away man. At least you got to go fishing for three days! Great to meet you and team Oly.
BassinBomber
7/22/2008 6:11:00 PM
Man talk about a fun Fam-Bam event,..fishing off the back porch,...hmmmm one can only imagine,..nice work "D"!
3riversbasser
7/22/2008 7:23:00 PM
Glad to see you got into some fish. We saw you out there on sunday. We were in the blue and white skeeter.
bassmasterderek
7/22/2008 8:22:00 PM
Thanks guys! Kevin, you guys would love that motel check out silverlakemotelandresort.com. 3riversbasser nice to meet some more people from the site too bad I don't remeber the blue and white skeeter sorry saw allot of bass boats that day. Hope you did good in the tourney though!
Bigbass Dez
7/23/2008 2:02:00 PM
good job out there D , Keep casting and stay safe bro .. BBD
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