I have mentioned that Tom Verschueren and I like to fish for smallmouth bass at Crescent Bar this time of year, and we got a chance to do it last Tuesday. We launched the Smokercraft Phantom across from the marina and headed up the channel below the cliffs. I always tilt my Mercury 250 out of the water and let the Minn Kota Ulterra do the work. I kept a close eye on the Garmin fish finder as you cross some shallow bars on the way out. I also like hug the shoreline to present the crank baits that are trolled behind the boat. I hoped that we weren’t too late, and the smallmouth had spawned and dispersed. Turns out our timing wasn’t too bad. We were trolling everything from Rapalas in the perch pattern to Bandit deep divers and some other brightly colored plugs, and the bass hit them all. We fished for about two hours or so and landed nine and lost a few more. So, the fishing is pretty good, but I would get on it soon. We quit early because we wanted to give Evergreen Reservoir a try. That’s a story for another day.