I was thinking about when we fished for smallmouth bass at Crescent Bar last year. It didn’t take long to search my photos and find what I was looking for. Tom Verschuren and I are making trips to this area every year now, and last year we got some dandy smallmouth on May 6th. We went back on May 10th and had another good day. We fish below the cliffs in the channel and start about where the swimming area is on the beach. I have tried all kinds of stuff that works great for me on Banks Lake, like Senkos and lizards, but for some reason they don’t work here. We have our best success trolling crank baits behind the boat. We have some Rapalas, like the Fire Tiger pattern that works really well, and a Flicker Shad Crawdad gets fish, too. We run four rods out the back and try different patterns until we find what the smallmouth want. Even on windy days, with a lot of current off the Columbia, fishing along the cliffs is protected. There is a great free launch here on both sides of the channel by the bridge. I want to get down there as soon as I can!