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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 47

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went back out to emigrant on the 3rd. Biggest fish again was a largemouth of 3.5lbs. Next top four were smallies at 3.3,3.3,3.2,3.0 for a nice 16.3lb. best five total. caught 14 fish. Broke one off and lost 2. About 25 bites total today all on brown tubes in 15-25 ft. fish slow (drag) 1/8 to 1/4 darter heads.
    City: Medford

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey guys, just so you know,we have a Lost creek reports page now.
    City: Medford

Friday, November 24th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 47

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went to emigrant on the 24th and 25th... Day one our boat caught 16 total with the biggest going 3.2 lb smallie. Most were largemouth in about 8-20ft deep all on tubes. The other boat showed up a little late and caught 11 with the biggest going 2.8 (smallie). Day one best 5 around 8.5 lbs. or so for both boats... Next day went back out and on the water at 9 a.m. Caught twelve before 1 p.m. all on tubes. off the water at 4 p.m. with 16 total. Best five went 18.2lbs.(No Joke) the biggest was a 4.9lb Largemouth in 8 feet of water next was 3.4, 3.3, 3.3, 3.3 all smallmouth. Broke off or lost two more good ones (both Smallmouth). All fish were on tubes. One of the best days I've had on Emigrant and you wouldn't have thought it was November except for the snow in the hills and 40 degrees outside!! The fish were Trinity class fish. Bigger fish were caught between 5-20 feet. We caught fish out to 35 feet also (12" Largemouths). Lowered the Aqua-vu and spotted active Smallmouth in 18-20 feet with a water temp of 45.2 degrees at that depth. No thermocline layer noticed.
    City: medford

    Tips: Bring a Mr. Heater

Sunday, November 19th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I did catch a spot on lost creek earlier this year 2.5 lbs, I was surprised when I landed it and noticed it was a spot. Also last year I caught a 7lb Bass, I thought it was a largemouth, but the mouth was so small me and my buddies all commented how small the mouth was... I weighed it and took pictures, now that I know what a spot is, I believe it was a spot...I can email you the pictures
    City: medford

Saturday, October 28th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 58-59

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Out on the lake around 12pm. There were more fisherman than I had expected. Everyone must have shot their deer already. Pretty slow day for the most part, found some smaller fish on the East fork near the rock wall, got those on a luckycraft pointer. Couldn't get the jig bite or crank bite going. Had quite a few bites on Carolina rig'd tubes in green pumpkin. I forgot my spinning rod today, but I know the drop shot bite would have been good, had good luck last week with drop shot in 12-15 ft. range w/ 4" weenie worm in oxblood.
    City: medford

    Tips: I was wondering if someone could confirm the rumor that Lost Creek has Spotted bass in there now? How is the fishing there?

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: My wife Jennifer and I hit the lake early. Started out with topwater and got a mix of largemouth and smallmouth on the spitn image and a couple on the Hammer Buzz Buzzbait. Threw a crankbait with some good results. Caught a few on a jerkbait as well.
    The fish didnt want anything to do with the jig/trailer combo yet. My wife caught several fish dragging a 4" worm 0n the bottom while I was throwing the reaction baits.
    Beautiful day out on the water!!!
    City: Medford

    Tips: Seemed the fish wanted the red colored worms this day. Had good luck with a Deep "little N" crank in red color as well.

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

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    Water Temp: 62-64

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at first light. Most of the lake was glass with only a mild ripple in some areas. Quite a few boats out today for oppening weekend of hunting season. I guess that tells you how popular our sport is getting. Now if the fish and game would just realise the revenue that Oregon is missing out on by not really supporting our warm water fishery`s huh? Anyhoo..Started off throwin cranks jigs and topwater. Brought my 11ry old son Jered along this morning to try and get him into some of these crank fish. On his third cast he hooks a real nice smallmouth. The fish made about a 3ft leep and spits the bait out. Dang!! Guessing the fish at about three pounds. His eyes were like saucers.Jack hooks up with a nice 201/2 lb smallie on the same spot. The fish were hitting top water pretty good but the only decent fish was a roughly 2lb bigmouth. I get a nice smallie in the 2lb class and we just keep movin down the bluffs. Nothin huge on the Emigrant creek side so after about 2hrs we head to the other side. All the boats seem to be on this side of the lake. Topwater bight seems to be off now so we are back on the cranks. I get a 4lb largemouth on a crank and we pick up alot of dinks and a few 1-2lb fish of both types.Bight is not near as good as the previous weekend. I`m sure its due to the lack of wind. The lake has also dropped about 18 inches and that could have something to do with it as well. We tried going a little deeper but didnt help the results. Caught me a nice slimer and I could tell Jack was jealous. Some clown was sitting in the horseshoe at the cemetary catching one fish after another and keeping everything he caught. I`l bet this guy put 30 fish of all kinds in that box. Where`s the game warden when you need him huh? Made me sick. If I had been alone I would have said something to him but didnt want to cause a scene in front of my kid. Ran into a guy that said his wife caught a 6lb lm on a crank earlier that morning so it sounds like the hogs might be starting to show up.
    City: Medford

    Tips: Good luck to all and if you see a guy in a white smoker craft keep your eye on him. He might be killin allot of our valuable fish.

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Jack and I left Medford on a cold clear morning, not a breath of wind. Crested the entrance to Emigrant next to the dam at about 5;30am and almost had to put the truck in 4WD to enter the park due to the gail force winds. As we drove down the ramp we could see white caps breakin as far as we could see. Steve Mitchel was parked at the bottom tryin to decide weather or not to brave the storm and said the wind had slowed a little since he showed up so we all decided to give it a chance to calm down before launching. A few other boats pulled in, driver gets out, looks around and decides to leave. Launched at bout 6;20 and head down the left hoping for a fall reaction bite.I get a nice 2 1/2lb smallie right off on a crank bait, hopes are high for a good day. I continue to pick up some smaller sm on the crank while Jack picks up a topwater bait to throw in the calmer water nooks and starts picking up a few lm in the 1lb class. Cranks in the wind and topwater in the calmer areas both getting bit. What I cant figure out is evertime we fish together I catch allot of smallmouth and jack gets mostly largemouth ( and trout )fishin the same stuff in the same place. Boy, he really has a knack for locating them slimers.. Worked alot of this side of the lake and decide to take a look at the other end hoping to get out of the wind a little. It was not to be. The wind was worse on this side but decided to brave it and try an old stand by spot just to see if it was holding anything. We pull int the spot and Jack decides to give up the front of the boat to me. Gee thanx!! The trolling motor would just bareley keep up with the wind and we start rippin fish right away. The area is only about 20yds by 20yds and full of both smallies and lm, not to mention the slimers jack managed to catch. We procede to rip one after another with quite a few in the 1-2 1/2lb class. After about an hour of this we decide to strap on the feed bag and take a break from the wind. Head back to where we started to see if any more fish had moved into our hog hole. Having first, biggest, and most, at this point I decide to lay down for a bit and recooperate from a very late night before with little sleep. About fifteen minutes into my knap I hear the familliar whip of a good hookset and upon opening my eyes I see a healthy bend in Jacks rod. I`m thinkin, oh great, knowing where we are, what he is throwing,and who I am with, I fully expected to see a monster largemouth surfacing any moment. Turned out to ba a good nearly 4lb lm. Good fish but not unbeatable. So I get up and start casting again. We get a few more decent fish but nothin to brag about. About ready to leave at 12;00 and we decide to take one more shot on the other side just for good measure. The fish are still there! I hook a real good fish and warn Jack that he is goin down with this one.. Turns out to be about the same size as the one he got and we didnt weigh iether of them so had to call it a draw. After about an hour the battery died completely. 6 hrs of use on full power and our power source was depleted ending what was an excelent day on our favorite local lake. I would say we wound up with at least 20 keepers each with two fish that would be very close to 4lbs each and plenty of rats. Advantage Jack with the slimers. I can live with that!!
    City: Medford

    Tips: Dont think the big fish are shallow in the day time yet but will start to show up in the next month. As much as the wind hinders your abillity to fish, it sure doest hurt the catching as long as you can take it. Total reaction bite, very few on worms and jigs. The only thing I can figure about the smallmouth for me and largemout for him thing is this. Largemout are stupid and smallmouth have higher standards for who they will allow to fool em`. Just my opinion. For slimer tips call or write to Jack Harris, he`ll slime ya up good..

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Caught a 5.2, 5.6, 3.5, 3.3,2.0 largemouth, and a 2.2 and 2.5 smallmouth, fished a little differently used brushhogs and chatterbait
    City: medford

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 69-72 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Took my wife to the lake early on Sunday for some bassin. Started catching fish right away. Couldnt get a response on the topwater. I set the wife up with a split shot rig so she could drag small baits from the back of the boat as I fished reaction baits up front. Her third fish was a real nice 3+ smallie, her best ever. I caught lots of smaller fish throughout the morning on crawdad colored cranks as well as fire tiger/parrot colored ones casting across main lake points.
    Had fun fishing the minimal amount of bushes still in the water with a soft jerkbait. Caught a few largemouth as well as a couple of smallies. I LOVE fishing these things. Found a small cove that the wind was blowing directly into, the birds were workin it pretty good. Caught a couple small largemouth on a rocket shad in there (burned just under the surface).
    Wife caught another real nice smallie on the same split shot rig on another main lake point. Still had her dragging a 3" worm---color did not matter.
    The fish DEFINITELY wanted the smaller baits (plastics) this day. Tried the bigger stuff and did not get touched. The fish I caught were on the reaction baits. My wife caught the quality dragging the small baits over the points. Turned to a very slow pick by 11:00 A.M. Put the boat on the trailer at 2:00 P.M.

    John
    City: Medford

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

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    Water Temp: 77

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished at night, got 6 a 4.3 lgmth, 5.2 lgmth several 2.8 smallies and a 4lb smallie, lost six others that broke me off or spit the bait by the boat, all quality fish...those rocks are sharp. Keep the water skiers goin all day, cause its nice at night when I have the lake to myself
    City: medford

    Tips: Giant spinnerbaits work for me, as well as the chatterbait

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: fished sunday 5:30 to 9:00 am first cast with spinner bait 2.5lb smallie couple more casts another smallie about 1.25 lbs then wife catches 1.25lber on spinner bait fishing stayed pretty good until sun came up the the power fishing stopped for anything over 10 inches. skiers started about 7:00 am and i decided i didnt want rock and roll all day in this weather.
    City: medford

    Tips: all good fish before sun comes up. and all fish on points

Saturday, June 10th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out to applegate first light, caught 12 smallies, one 3lb on carolina rig, and one 2.5 on a deep main lake point on top, most of the other fish were around 1.5 with a couple of dinks mixed in. Fish are on the beds and a little harder to find since they spawn deep in this clear water lake. The 3lber I caught was in about 17ft of water and full of eggs, I just got lucky and dragged my plastic across the bed.
    City: medford

    Tips: Look for points that go out in 15 to 20ft of water

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: This report is for applegate, went out last evening for about 3hrs, got 10 smallmouth, all same size 1.9 to 2.2 lbs, none on top which is unusual..all plastic, rattle trap and chatterbait. Had a huge largemouth tryin to take my chatterbait out of a fish I hooked mouth right at the boat, huge fish probably 8 to 10lbs, wish he wouldve got it...
    City: medford

    Tips: bushes, bushes, bushes

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out about 4:30 PM to do some evening fishing. Lake was really windy and white capping. My buddy was only able to catch one dink on a senko. I got skunked. Lots of bites, few takers.
    City: Medford

    Tips: Hit up coves and humps for a good amount of smallies.

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 65-71

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished a few hours, biggest was 2.5 smallie, lot of 1 to 1.5 smallies and largemouth, rattle trap go the largest, had one nice one come unbuttoned on a jig probably largemouth was in very shallow water next to stump...oh well..Night fishing should be good, launch on the road that goes into water, drive truck out to road where semi's park and have my buddy pick me up in the boat
    City: medford

    Tips: soft jerkbaits put lots of fish in the boat for me

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 59-66

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Nice to see some others reporting on this lake. Thankyou. Jack and I in at 5;30. Down the cemetary side hunting big smallies. Lake was down a little already. Lots of dinks hitting plastics but nothing on the crank at our first stop. Second spot I hit a 3.25 sm on a crank. That would be the only good crank fish of the day. A few casts later picked up a 2.25 sm on a tube. Those would be the only good fish of this trip. We wound up catching a mixed bag of dink sm and lm mostly on plastics and cranks with a couple on spinnerbaits. About thirty fish total. Alot of fun but the best five would probably have gone only 11-12lb.
    City: medford

    Tips: Full moon, pre-front, no wind at all, spawning temps for both species. Night fishing may have been better but I dont think they will let us do that anymore unless you pay for a camp sight. I think all the decent fish are in a spawn mode and just not feeding that well right now. Maybe I suck and am just making excuses for myself??? Better days yet to come...

Friday, May 12th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the water about 11:00 am. Headed up the Emigrant arm to the road bed on the north facing bank. Caught a bunch of rats on worms and tubes. Fished quite a ways into the creek with the same results. Moved the the south facing bank and stuck one lm (1 lb) and a sm a little over 2 lb. Off the water about 1:00.
    City: Medford

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 61-63

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Had a good day of fishing finally at Emigrant on 5-10. Started early in the A.M. throwing spinnerbaits and zoom frogs top water style. Spinnerbait produced the majority of the fish throughout the day, but the frog was getting plenty of "dink" blowups. After 10am. I switched to a ringer worm, caught quite a few fish on that as well. Couldn't get the crankbait bite or the rattle trap working. best 5 was close to 12lbs.
    City: Medford

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: catching alott of smallmouth 2-3#ers on speedtraps, it doesnt seem to matter the color.my wife and i caught several smallmouth also up at Howard Praire on 05/05(last friday)caught them on speedtaps also.water temp there was 58.
    City: Medford,Or

    Tips: enjoy fishing!!!!