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I went out to fish on crescent bay after fishing banks lake the day before but got nothing on Banks but did see a bunch of catfish jumping, unfortunately I didnt have the right baits for them. so I headed to Crescent bay at about 11:30 the next day and saw a few crappie jumping but I was itching to get my first bass for this season. When you go fishing on crescent bay you head down a dirt road. Shortly after getting on the road you look to the right and theres a sign saying non motorized boats only, STOP RIGHT THERE! get out and to the right you see Crescent bay. Theres a large pipe coming in from roosevelt lake, (the intake for Crescent). Theres a five pound bass that likes to hang out right there in front lof the pipe, but it is very easily spooked. If you climb up a couple of feet from the pipe you can just sit there and wait for him to come out , bring your poloroized sunglasses, you need to get there in the early morning because thats when these bass do ALL there feeding, if the five pound bass isnt exciting enough theres a 10 pound monster there as well in the same spot. Both are very tough to catch, the day I was out there I tried all the things in my tackle box from rooster tails to plastic crawdad. The crawdad got the most response from the five pounder it swam right towards it then turned away at the last second. Night crawlers also got some good reactions, my best bet would be get there early in the mourning drop in a night crawler and just wait, but don’t stay close to your pole and don’t cast it out it only needs to be maybe five feet away from you. If you get there in the afternoon or middle of the day use a huge fish shape lure (the bigger the better) because the bass would want to keep its territory and fight off trespassers, unfortunately I never tried that there. If you catch either of these fish I hope you release them so someone else could catch them. GOOD LUCK
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Fished the morning (7-11am). Weather was overcast with a slight breeze. Wind picked up later in the morning. Water temperature seems to be cooling with the warm days and cool nights that Columbia Basin has been enjoying the last two weeks.
Fishing was very good for fish in the 15-19 inch range. All fish that I caught this time were rainbows (unlike the summer months when a brown or two entered the picture. Fish were in superb condition, full of fight and quick to recover upon release. The Washington Fish and Game department has planted Dry Falls with a healthy population of 8-9 inch fish. When I inadvertently
allowed my fly to get up in the water column, I often hooked up with a little guy. Big fish seemed to be hugging the bottom. A motor-oil colored nymph in a 12-3X did the trick in the early part of the morning. A Black chronomid accounted for a couple more prior to a fair-sized hatch mid-morning and the standard black wooley bugger helped me finish out my day.
Lots of critters out in the early morning hours; coyotes, rabbits, deer, ducks, geese and the ever-present coveys of quail. What a great place to fish !!
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The wife and I went fishing between 10:00AM and 1:00 PM. We worked the north shore with bottom bouncers and chartreuse walleye worm harness spinners. Got lots of bites from perch and we caught about 8 of them. But no walleye. The best spot for the perch and they were keeper size was out from the little bay about two thirds of the way down the lake in 20 to 30 feet of water. We also worked the little slack water "hook" area right as you come into the lake on the south shore, right as the cliffs start.I've caught smallmouth here before and I did this trip also. Nothing to brag about. We also caught some more keeper size perch. Has anyone else noticed the return of descent size perch the last few years. And I mean in all lakes not just crescent.
Weather was breezy with partly cloudy conditions and the temp was in the upper 60's maybe lower 70's.Please excuse my spelling I'm only a cc grad.
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