The area features several lakes (typically 30-70 yards wide and 10–30 feet deep). These lakes, known as "potholes" were created through both natural and man made processes. The potholes were initially carved out during the Pleistocene by flood waters originating from Glacial Lake Missoula.[3] Subsequent damming of the area by the Columbia Basin Project raised the water table high enough to allow these topographical depressions to become lakes.
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"Belews also fishes “opposite” of what many fishermen would expect. When the sun’s out the brightest, Richardson said, the bass are liable to be in the clearest, shallowest water. It’s not unusual in the fall, he said, to see “wolfpacks” of 3- and 4-pound bass roaming in 2 or 3 feet of gin-clear water, chasing down any minnows that darts into their path."
This is possibly the most interesting place I've ever researched fishing on. Thanks for sending down this rabbit hole. I might need to give this lake it's own dedicated breakdown because there's a lot going on. WHOS Gonna be on the live in a few minutes?