Prime fishing season is nearly upon us! Several area\nlakes are already turning on, and more will follow soon as temperatures\nstabilize. Read more about where the fish are biting in this week\u2019s fishing\nreport. But first, a few notes on upcoming fishing events: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brownlee Reservoir\n(Crappie, Catfish, Bass) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Brownlee is a prime spring destination because of its\nvariety. Crappie are always a popular target\u2014they are schooling up in 20 to 30\nfeet of water right now, and while the bite has yet to really heat up, you can\nusually catch a handful on panfish jigs tipped with crappie nibbles. Small\ncrankbaits also work well. There is some size disparity this year, with lots of\nsmaller fish mixed in with occasional 14-inch slabs. If bigger fish are more\nyour style, a recent bass tournament produced lots of fish in the 3-pound\nclass. Crankbaits and finesse jigs are the ticket. And anytime you visit Brownlee,\ncatfish are an option. Channel cats and larger, stealthier flatheads will pick\nup cut bait, worms, shrimp, jigs and crankbaits fished near the bottom. Reeling\nup a big cat is a great way to break\nout of a spring fishing slump<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Lake Lowell (Bass)\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Motorized boat season opens April 15 at Lowell, putting\none of the most popular and convenient local bass fisheries back in the\nrotation. I\u2019ll be curious to see what conditions are like\u2014after a couple of\ndown seasons, Lowell appeared to be on the comeback last year. I saw lots of\nsmall bass, which is a great sign for successful spawning, and my partner and I\nclosed the season with a 20-fish day in September. Water levels are sure to be\nhigh this spring, which means flipping soft plastics and jigs in the flooded\ntrees or bumping crankbaits along rocky shorelines are good ways to locate\nfish. Be sure to observe the no-wake zones for nesting birds, and remember all\nbass are catch-and-release through July 1. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Anderson Ranch\nReservoir (Kokanee, Chinook, Bass) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The ice is off at Anderson Ranch and anglers have been\ncatching some nice stringers of Kokanee. Trolling in 20 to 40 feet of water is\na good place to start this time of year, using wedding rings, squid jigs and\nflashy spoons tipped with corn or a salmon egg. As an added bonus, Anderson is\nhome to landlocked Chinook salmon. The average size is about 18 inches, but I\nhave seen some really big specimens over two feet long. Those would be fun on\nmedium-weight Kokanee gear! There are also smallmouth bass in Anderson,\nalthough they might still be sluggish in the chilly spring runoff. When they do\nawake, target them with jigs, soft plastics and crankbaits along rocky\nshorelines or near submerged vegetation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prime fishing season is nearly upon us! Several area lakes are already turning on, and more will follow soon as temperatures stabilize. Read more about where the fish are biting in this week\u2019s fishing report. But first, a few notes on upcoming fishing events: Brownlee Reservoir (Crappie, Catfish, Bass) Brownlee is a prime spring destination…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,44],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brownlee","tag-fishing-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tightlines208.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tightlines208.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tightlines208.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tightlines208.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tightlines208.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tightlines208.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/tightlines208.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tightlines208.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tightlines208.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tightlines208.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tightlines208.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}