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Saturday, March 12th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 50to54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: finally got the boat out again on the water. I actually fished cottage grove res. fished rip rap along the dam and caught 4 bass missed one. all the bass were all average size 2 pounds except the last one which was cought off a christmas tree, which was pushing 4 pounds. all caught off of a 3/4 oz. white and chart. spinnerbait TRAILER HOOK A MUST!!!! Great day on the water blue skys and cought fish. Tight lines and good luck
    City: creswell

    Tips: all reaction hits. when the spinnerbait hits the water give it a strong tug to get the blades turning, like i said trailer hooks a must... heavy spinnerbait is a good idea so you can keep it on the bottom better or if you want to rip it a bit.

Saturday, March 5th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 50-55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: The fishing was pretty good, we caught 15 to 20 fish, mostly on jigs. We did catch a few on rattle traps. great weekend on the lake. Only going to get better. Most of the fish came in the 10 to 15 foot deep range, a few came off the boat docks.

Saturday, February 26th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 46-48

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: fished rv bass tournment saturday and sunday. good turn out but the fishing was poor. tried flipping jigs into brush,wood first thing with no luck. switched to a 3in. flipping tube and hooked up into a 3+ but broke it off. continued fishing the same bank but no takers. couple hours left in the tournment found a nice strech of sumerged timber in deep water,pulled 5 keepers out with the tube and lots of hits.
    City: central point

    Tips: texas rigged tube worked slow in 10-20ft sunday tournment same presentation same spot no fish?

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: On water about 8:30 AM. There were three bass tournaments taking place and about three dozen boats were on the water. Fished North Tenmile around the trestle until about 12:30 PM. Broke for lunch and returned to the water about 1:15 PM. Fished the Coleman Arm on South Tenmile until about 3:00 PM. Only saw one smally (1.5 lbs +/- taken). Tried everything and only got three strikes between myself and my wife. Too much pressure on the lakes because of the tournys. Plenty of fish showing on the fish finder, just no takers.
    City: Yoncalla

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: caught 100 fish today all 5 pounds a piece and they all tasted awsome... just kidding caught 2 fish both around 2 pounds. fished jigs and spinnerbaits slow and deep. spinnerbait fish caught in about 20 ft of water. jig fish hit in about the same. oh yea,they were both released.
    City: creswell

    Tips: when you think you are fishing the spinnerbait slow and deep, fish it just a little bit slower adn deeper. jig fishing is more of a personallure to fish everyone has theyre own way of fishing it. good luck and tight lines to everyone out there.

Sunday, January 23rd, 2005

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fist time fishing this lake in the winter, so just tried some stuff. Enjoyed the day, but left pleanty of fish with out sore-mouths:
    On the water 8:00 am. Fished Coleman creek arm spinner baits, and crankbaits for no takers. Pitched jigs and skipped some senkos under and around docks "zero". Picked up two fish (one 12" one 2.5) on texas rigged plastics at about 10:00 a.m. cast to the bank and working them real slow back to the boat. Probed the upper end of south lake until 5:00 p.m. had 6 or 7 more bites, two more in the boat. Fished very slow from 2 to 12 feet.
    City: Southern Oregon

Friday, January 21st, 2005

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: TWO OF US FISHED FROM 7AM TIL 4:30 CAUGHT 9 FISH GOOD SIZE 2-4LBS FISHING WAS HARD HAD TWO FISH REALY SLOW NICE DAY ON THE WATER.
    City: EUGENE

    Tips: SLOW 5 - 10FT WATER SPINNER BAIT AND SENKOS EVEN CAUGHT ONE ON TOP WATER PLUG.HAVE FUN

Sunday, December 26th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Glad to see a few current reports on this lake.... I guess maybe Oregon fishermen are starting to find these pages..... I fish the costal lakes as well as northern and central California lakes (Shasta, Trinity, Clear Lake) and also drift the Umpqua for smallies when I get the chance... The northern California guys post reports on their lakes frequently, and it sure helps me decide where to spend my gasoline money.... Really would like to see more reports on out Oregon lakes as well ! ! ! Let's do more to help each other out by submitting reports here on these pages...........
    City: Williams, OR

Sunday, December 19th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: fished about 4 hours caught four dinks, all on the bank. It had been sunny and people were doing well fishing plastics shallow and slow. When I went it was raining and fishing was slow.

Friday, November 19th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey,you guys please submit your reports. I don't care what you have to say just tell us something!!! If the fishing sucked than tell us what didn't work. If you just killed 'em and the fishing was great than share the wealth. I know that this site can work, my friends and I used it for years down in California. So, please spare alittle of your time and tell the rest of us whats going on out on the water. Post your tournement score brag about big fish you caught, I don't care just submit a report, please.
    Thank you and good fishing.

Monday, September 27th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing lillie-pads in the back of one of the coves and got my first Frog-fish and started flipping with Brush Hog and got five keeper 2.5+ and lost a TOAD on the brush hog.
    City: North Bend

    Tips: Flip the Lillie-pads and work the back of the coves.

Monday, August 16th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 68+

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 8:30am to 5:00pm from boat on 16th. Caught 2 dinks. Was told early morning best. Caught a 1.5 lb lm bass from dock around 7:30pm using a senko texas rigged. Next morning started fishing at 6:00am till 3:30pm from boat. Not a single fish made it in. Tried eveything in the tackle box. Had a couple bites. Decided I could at least drink beer fishing from the dock. Using a light sinker with a 12" leader using trout yellow floating bait and a live worm on end of hook, caught a 14" trout AND a 1.5 lb lm bass this way. WITH FLOATING BAIT? Long couple of days of fishing. It was about 80 deg air in the sun. Was told the in the tourney the weekend before that there were NO keepers caught on Sunday by any team.
    City: Tualatin

    Tips: Suggest a different lake for the time being.

Saturday, May 1st, 2004

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    Water Temp: 67-71

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished "BASSIN FOR BUCKS" SAT (5/1/04). THE catching of numbers were great. Lots of fish caught on senkos & spinner baits. 21# plus won it and there was alot of 16-19# bags. There was 41 boats fishing the tournament. If you weren't there you missed a lot of fun. See you all there next year.
    Thanks "Umpqua Valley Bass Masters" for a great and fun time.
    City: roseburg

    Tips: Get there early and stay long. The fish we caught on anything you want to use.

Monday, October 20th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: THREE OF US FISHED 7AM TILL DARK. BITE WAS ON ALL DAY. REALY GOT GOOD ABOUT 4PM. FISHED SPINERBAIT AND SENKOS 4INCH DARK COLORS.WE CAUGHT 25-30 FISH BIG FISH WAS ABOUT 4LBS MOST WERE 1-2LBS
    City: EUGENE

    Tips: SENKOS REAL SLOW, SPINERBAIT NEXT TO THE SHORE. GOOD LUCK!

Saturday, June 14th, 2003

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Put in at dawn, went directly to Rocky Point, threw a green/red lake Senko and caught a 2+ largemouth on the irst cast, and its' twin on the ourth cast.... Thought "this is going to be the day", and then didn't catch another or about three+ hours.... Caught the third one at the very back o that arm (can't recall the name), and a ourth and ith (both small) coming out... Threw over a branch o an overhanging tree (accidentally) and just yo-yoed the Senko up and down a ew times and a really good ish nailed it.... Had to go in to retrieve both ish and lure as they were snarled up in both the tree and weeds... Rinally got her in the boat and she weighed 4.2 on the digital scale... By then the wind was really screaming, so I called it a day, put the boat on the trailer, and was really glad that I'd decided on Tenmile or that day.....
    City: Williams, Oregon

    Tips: Only tried Senkos (4") didn't eel the need or anything else + as weedy as it was, Senkos rigged Texas style with no weight seemed like a good choice.....

Friday, August 16th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My son and I started out at dawn in the the North lake, tried buzzbaits, pop Rs, spinnerbaits, jigs and senkos, but did not get bit. Went to the south lake, and I was throwing a rog while my son threw a senko, he caught 1 ish, but I kept throwing a rog at the pads, ater several hours o this he had missed several ish so I changed to the senko and boated 5 more ish beore loading up. It was a great day ishing with my son on my avorite Oregon lake.
    City: Roseburg

Wednesday, May 29th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 68-71

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We ished South Tenmile Saturday and Sunday o Memorial Day weekend. We boated 20-30 ish in two days ishing exclusively spinnerbaits. Most o the ish were small (8-14 in.) but we managed several 2 to 3 and a hal pounders. Our best success came in the mid to outer edge o the weedline in 4-7 eet o water although the biggest ish came o the bank (probably bedding ish). The ish seemed partial to water that was mud stained rom wave action on the shoreline although we ound ish all over the lake in all types o cover.
    City: Oregon City

    Tips: I ished a 1/2 oz willowlea spinnerbait with a gold and silver skirt.

Wednesday, February 6th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 45

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: In at about 8:30 am ished the north lake or about 4 hours. Caught three in about an hour and that was the only bites i had. I was lipping a june bug strike king tube. The rist two ish were about 2 1/2 lbs and were right on the bank. The third ish was o a corner o a dock in about ten eet o water it was about 4 lbs. The ish were were thumping the bait pretty hard or as cold as it was. Have tourny there next month.
    City: Yoncalla, Oregon

Wednesday, November 7th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 56.8

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Tenmile over the weekend. The boat managed to land > 20 bass ranging in size. Mostly all keeper ish.
    City: McMinnville

    Tips: Fish slow and some reaction bates.

Friday, September 15th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing on Saturday, 9/9/00, was very tempermental. Bite came on about 11 AM and lasted about an hour. Took 4 (3 Smallies, 1 Largemouth) in the 2+ lb range. All ish came in water range rom 10 to 20 eet. Bite was either very subtle or like a locamotive. Wind was 25+ MPH gusting to 40 MPH
    City: Oak Harbor

    Tips: Water was very clear. Used dark colors moving slowly.