Thanks Mike... also thanks for washingtonlakes.com, it helps us fishermen in Washington get information on their favorite spots and new lakes they want to fish and the topo maps and articles and photos, its a great site. I check the site every day. Yes I have read all of Bruce's articles on Bass fishing which helped me alot...and I read every new lake post on Washingtonlakes.com for any lake in the state so that helps, and I recognize Dave Newby and I know that he is catches ridiculous amounts of big bass at and I recognize the name Bob Johanson as well, I will read their reports over again. I also spend my weekends trout fishing at local lakes like Pine Lake and Beaver Lake until about the middle of June when the trout fishing isn't as good, then it will be all bass, saltwater fishing and some fishing for trout up at Deer and Lone Lake up at Whidbey Island where I spend a lot of time at my summer cabin...I will most definetely do some bassing around April and May and June as well since those are good bass months and maybe if the weather clears up for us maybe some visits to the lake in March...Mike I know that you always go up to Pine Lake for opening day (I read all the reports on the lakes I fish a lot), I will be up their in a green Sevylor raft and its called a Fish Hunter 280, so if I see you I will row over and say hi!