Wanted to test my new electric motor and homemade mount, so Monday I headed up the river. First time taking my dog in the boat, and she was a big help! Launched at LePage park and started fishing the cliffs and rock formations along the Oregon side of the Columbia. I had forgotten how much more fun it is bass fishing from the boat, and having the electric motor to keep my location made it even better! The 55 lb thrust was able to push my 19' boat easily, until the wind made it to hard to fish anyway.
The bite was on from the start, hit the water about 10:00 am and first cast fish on. A lot of weeds, and nets, but my best fish came from the areas between the rocks and weeds. Most bites came before hitting bottom, and the water depth didn't seem to matter. Usual small plastics for me, started with a ned rig (shad colored) that was doing well. Then seeing the fish spitting up small whole crawdads, I put a Z-Man TRD CrawZ (green pumpkin orange) on my ned rig.
That was the winner for the day. Fish size was all over the place, largest just under 2 lbs. Several times I had wolfpacks of fish following in the one hooked. Wind blew me off the river around 2:30, but managed 31 for the short day.
One little guy had a large notch in it's back. Fought well, and seemed healthy otherwise, and swam away fine to fight another day. Any ideas as to what would cause this injury?
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The bite was on from the start, hit the water about 10:00 am and first cast fish on. A lot of weeds, and nets, but my best fish came from the areas between the rocks and weeds. Most bites came before hitting bottom, and the water depth didn't seem to matter. Usual small plastics for me, started with a ned rig (shad colored) that was doing well. Then seeing the fish spitting up small whole crawdads, I put a Z-Man TRD CrawZ (green pumpkin orange) on my ned rig.
That was the winner for the day. Fish size was all over the place, largest just under 2 lbs. Several times I had wolfpacks of fish following in the one hooked. Wind blew me off the river around 2:30, but managed 31 for the short day.
One little guy had a large notch in it's back. Fought well, and seemed healthy otherwise, and swam away fine to fight another day. Any ideas as to what would cause this injury?
