Lake Erie is a quality smallie lake Fish hunter.... Lake Washington is a big deep western washington lake with a few smallmouth bass residing within it's boundaries....

Western washington sporties should feel lucky that they have the kind of anadromous sport fishing opportunities that they have... no question that the pursuit of sea run trout and salmon here far exceeds the kind of sport fishing opportunity offered by spiny ray fish like smallmouth bass and walleye in eastern and midwestern states...........

but, when there are no steelhead and there are no chinook a man has to fish for something and that, more often than not, ends up being spiny ray species such as bass and walleye....