I mentioned in an earlier report that the trout fishing at Curlew Lake is excellent. What I didn’t mention is that the largemouth bass fishing here is a blast. Because it doesn’t take a lot of time to catch a limit of rainbow here, my wife and I are usually bass fishing by mid-morning. It’s a great way to spend the balance of the day on the water. Most of the largemouth are on the smaller side. Most are just half-pounders, but boy are they fun to catch. I have caught bass to about 4 pounds on Curlew, so you never know you might hit a big fish or two during the day. The bass had just started showing up in the shallows when we were there. I had to so some experimenting to find out what they wanted, and what finally worked well was the good old Senko, fished very slowly. A green and yellow worked the first afternoon, but not at all the following morning. I found my trusty smoke blue was what they wanted that day. We fished a large bay in the lower lake that is access through a narrow channel. There are many good bass fishing spots throughout the lake, and that’s where you’ll find the tiger muskie, too.