Installing a Kayak Fishfinder

The old Eagle fishfinder in the kayak is finally going to be replaced with an newer model. I started to get bad water temperature readings; -4°F and the sonar was way off, so I knew something was wrong. Because of the poor readings, I was guessing that the transducer or the transducer wiring was bad. … Read more

Website Maintenance Successful!

We have completed the website maintenance successfully and the watermanatwork.com website and blog are back to 100% functionality. We are pleased to see that the work has paid off and the website is loading much faster than before. Hopefully, you didn’t experience any downtime with the website or blog, we should be online 99.9% of … Read more

Website Maintenance

The watermanatwork.com website and watermanatwork.com blog are currently undergoing major technical maintenance. There is probably going to be some downtime when the website and blog may not be online, but they shouldn’t be down for long. When we are back online, the website pages and blog entries should load faster and there will be less … Read more

First 2015 Smallmouth Bass

It’s been a slow start to the 2015 smallmouth bass season for sure. After a few kayak fishing trips, we finally managed to get a couple nice smallmouth bass in the boat. The secret was to target another species of fish, then we were able to get some smallies. The last time out, we caught … Read more

Slow Fishing & Cause for Concern

We managed to get a relatively calm day in what has been a somewhat windy spring, not that unusual in one of the windiest spots in North America, so we headed out on the Columbia River looking for those big springtime smallmouth bass. The fishing for smallmouth bass has been very slow this spring and … Read more

On The Road

I’m on the road taking care of some personal business so the blog entries are coming kind of slow. I should be back on the water shortly and hoping to be catching some of those big early season smallmouth bass.

Waiting for the Smallmouth Bass

The weather is much nicer than “normal” this time of year, but the fish haven’t gotten the message that it’s time to start moving. There were a number of bass fisherman out looking for those first smallmouth bass of 2015, but as they say, there was a lot of fishing and not much catching. The … Read more