Rock Creek Bass

Been fishing a couple of the nearly lakes (actually backwaters of the Columbia) for bass the last week. We hit Ash Lake last Sunday. I had a strike on the first cast, then nothing for neither my son nor I the rest of the afternoon. Wednesday we fished Rock Creek, and both had a bit of luck. He had one hookup that spit the hook when it jumped, and I caught a decent smallmouth. Friday night we went again, but no luck. Perfect temps, so we ended up floating until dark. Saturday afternoon I took my girlfriend and another friend paddling, and took a couple poles along just in case. Only one bite all afternoon, but it was enough:



Couldn't have asked for much better weekend. We had a blast just floating around, casting & relaxing



Hope this weather keeps up!

Looks like a great time!

Z

It was great, especially since Rock Creek's a mile from my house, and Ash is 3. Love not having to drive far. With any luck we'll be back out tonight!

Well, the folks came into town for the 4th festivities, so we headed back to Rock Creek yesterday afternoon. A bit windy, but after the 90+ degree temps in Hood River, it was just nice to be on the water. Not much luck to start, but as the sun headed to the horizon, I hit on an 11" smallmouth:



A little while after that, I look over to see my son pouring his water bottle in his lap. Turns out he caught a bass, and the line broke right as he hauled the fish in, so it was flopping around in his lap. He couldn't get hold of it, so he tried to keep it wet until I could paddle over:



It was the first fish he's caught out of a kayak, so he was pretty happy. Then, as we were heading back in, my dad caught one in the fading light, making it a clean sweep for us on the afternoon:

Nice report Brian, it's good to see three generations of kayak fishers catching fish together.  I'm jealous.  Seems like you have a lot of good smallmouth fishing around you.. you should sign up for AOTY as I think you'd have a good shot the individual species category.

Brian

Thanks, it was great having all 3 generations on the water at one time. Next time we'll all have to catch fish at once so we can get one photo. Maybe we'll get some keeper trout out of Lost Lake this weekend and can get a group shot.

Been thinking about the AOTY thing, and now that I'm getting time to get out again, might just do it. Edit - I've just signed up, woohoo!

Alright Al, welcome to the AOTY! The fam kayak fishing action looks so great. You must be proud to have 'em all out there and getting everyone on the fish. What can I say.. SA-WHEET!!!

Z

Alkasazi, PolePole is still out of town for almost another week and he handles the AOTY payments.  But I went ahead and flagged your account on the AOTY site as paid so that you can officially submit any fish you might catch over the weekend.    Good luck!

Brian