BEmerson

I have an oldeer champion and I have looked all over for some one who makes an flipping deck insert/extension for my boat. Does any one have any Ideas where to get what I need.

I like how you put that, with the wind. Now where do tidal bass spawn? With the fluxuating water table how do they find the sweet spot for a bed. I am a sight fisherman at heart so where do I look?

Wow this is great, Now the question that I have is how do they associate to Pillings and floating docks? We have a ton of those and I think I have flipped a jig or spinner bait on every one of them with no luck. I have been able to locate a few small mouth along some rip rap, but I want to get some green ones in the boat. If any one has fished this area some some pointers would be great. I have spent some out in the Scapoose bay area but like I said I cant find the green Fish!!!! Its killing me.

I am new to a tidal area (Portland OR. Willimatte and Coulunbia Rivers) and have very little experience fishing this style. I have had some trouble finding articles that spell it out well enough for all to understand. So I thought that I would pull from the pool of knowledge here in this fourm setting to hopfully answer some question. I will have more questions and if you have questions please feel free to add as this goes on but I would like to know the basic rules first, if there are any, to fishing tidal bass? Like I said feel free to add anything that might help those of us who are not familiar with this style of fishing.

I dont care where you are from, if you can get on any body of water and go and catch fish then you are good fisherman. How ever if you want to find the best you need to find the person who does this the most consistantly. In the lakes and rivers of any of the sothern states the climate does not change as drastically as it does in states further north. I dont think that lake fork has ever froze over. So to say that those who get to fish all year long are better leaves some room for debate. I am sure that they are good at fishing that type of water but how would they fair fishing a lake that just came out of a freeze. It would work the same if a fisherman came from a colder climate and went to the south they may not know how the fish position themselvs during the day, or how they adjust to thermocline, and oxygen density. To me if you want to know if the fisherman from the west find out who have been the most consistant on tour and see where they are from.