This is a double report, the 1st report is from Saturday morning in Snohomish County, the 2nd report is from Sunday morning in Skagit County.

The first lake was 51-53* clear water with the primary shore cover docks and a max depth of about 35'. I fished from shoreline to outside weed edges in 10-15' and rocky points out to 25'. I never had a nibble. Only found one tiny school of perch to mess with. Fished cranks, lipless, drop shot, C-Rig, T-Rig, jigs, heavy swimbaits, Senko, etc.. Used marker buoys from the tops of edge breaks out to 25'. Fished isolated grass and scattered rock here and nothing. Lake has small and largemouth.

This morning I went the opposite route and fished a stained shallow water lake that is primarily vegetation with a few logs and docks. Water temps here were 49-51.5*. Fished swim jigs, jigs, chatterbaits, spinnerbaits, drop shot, Senko, T-Rig, etc.. from shoreline to 20'. Oddly enough, my deepest bite here came from 2.5 feet! Yes, the decimal point belongs there! Two and one half feet was my deepest bite!

The first fish hit in 1.5' when I pitched a Rage Tail on a 1/4oz bullet weight in at a dock. My goal was to make a presentation every three feet on the dock, starting at the shore and working deeper. Thought process was that if I could at least get a bite I could perhaps narrow the target depth range down a bit. First cast and solid thunk on the first twitch. Set the hook, felt the fish, then nothing? Reeled in a Rage with no tails, both claws were ripped off, no hookup.

About 15 yards later on a laydown and the pitch never hit bottom! Set this time and bingo! Fish came up, tail walked half the length of the boat and came undone. I watched it zip off down into the submerged pads at the back of the boat, guessing two pounds.

That sent me chasing a shallow bite for the last hour I was there. Had one more bite but missed cleanly on the hookset. I rated this a 2 as a couple decent bites in less that three feet of water in early November = FUN!

Have a post doctor's appointment lake picked out for tomorrow now...want to take advantage of the sunshine and stable barometer.

Amx

11/12/2018 4:30:31 PM

My only bite today came in 17 foot on a Dropshot. I fished way shallow to about 40 feet. Senko under and around docks and walls and rocks. Spinner shallow.

Amx

11/12/2018 4:31:34 PM

1 bite, one fish - 1.60 Smallie. Fought well. 50.something water temp.

Jamesb

11/12/2018 8:05:27 PM

Nothing like shallow bite...I got out Saturday to Cassidy was flooded...way up from week before...only got one bite...lily pads were half under water now...so bite from weekend before was gone...Glad they are still biting.

fisherman92

11/13/2018 10:47:24 AM

Yeah I hit cassidy friday afternoon for 2 hours on my pontoon. got one small guy and missed 3 other small ones on weightless senkos.
Hit stevens the next day all morning (water temps 53-54). fished from shore to 30 ft deep. focused on 10'-25' mostly on drops/ points/weedlines/ deep docks with not one bite. my buddy and I used deep diving cranks, jerkbaits, plastics, rattletraps, spinnerbaits, swimbaits, ect, nothin... I may hang up the bass rods for the season or focus on a shallow muddy lake one more time. just not a ton of options since most of those lakes are pretty small...

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