LAST EDITED ON Jun-28-01 AT 10:50 AM (PST)

Matt,

I know the pool you're talking about. I call it the third pool. That pool is the furthest pool down that I've caught largemouth. I've caught smallmouth all the way down to the White Rock picnic area.

I started fishing there in 1988. After a couple "sunfish" only trips I caught an 8 inch smallmouth. I had never seen a smallmouth before but new it was a bass. The next weekend my cousin and I went up there before dark and did very well on decent sized bass (up to 16 inches). I'd have to say the R & R Strokers Beavertail Grub and the Rebel Crawfish are the best lures. It's amazing how much the river has changed in the past 13 years yet the bass remain.

I screwed up. The rope swing pool is what I call the "fifth pool". There is a small hidden pool just up river from the pool you caught the fish in that we call the "fourth". I have found 8 "pools" that hold decent bass from time to time not counting the pool below the dam. The seventh pool is my favorite - it is where I got my biggest redrock largemouth (18 inches).

I got my biggest redrock smallmouth (18 inches also) from the "second pool". That wide flat one right before the pool you're talking about.

The beavers scared the hell out of us the first morning we discovered them also. I still have friends here in town who do not believe me when I say there are beavers up there.

All this talk makes me want to get back up there. The ocean has had my attention too long.

I didn't fish on Father's Day (at least I don't remember fishing Father's Day :)). I did fish that Saturday (16th) with live bait for the first time from my tube.

Pete

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You can't catch tomorrow what you kill today - please practice catch and release.