I went into the weekend with kigh expectations...New Moon phase and stable weather were some positives, yet my partner Dan Hiatt only caught 1 smallmouth bass in two days of fishing! We hit the soth end of Soda Friday morning, but it was uncarachteristically slow, and I caught just 3 fish on the smaller side. We struck out at Mesa lake too. I wasm't untiil;; we fished Wind Dust Park on the Snake river, that I caught a half dozen decent smallies on 3" smoke grubs. We then hit the Columbia down near Plymouth below John Day dam, where I caugth 7 Smallies to 3 pounds Sunday morning on grubs, Carolina rigged FX Robo worms and smoke tubes. Dan finally caught a dink up behind John Day Dam and I put 5 more bass on the bank using Gulp minnowsw\ and tubes. Hopefully luck will smile on Dan in future trips...we really had to work for our fish this time! The Jigmiester

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