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Sunday, July 6th, 2008

  • Clinton County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fished from 6:30pm to 10:30pm quite a few dinks, went to deeper water structure and got a 3.1, 3.8 and a 2.5 smallie, one on buzzbait others on big spinnerbait.
      City: mdfrd

Friday, July 4th, 2008

  • Coos County
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      Water Temp: high 70's?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: July did start with a bang!! I fished Cottage Grove on the 4th and the 5th. The 4th was fantastic and the 5th was even better. On the fourth I tossed a shallow crank around for about 10 minutes with no bites. I grabbed my jig/beaver combo and tossed it out to see if I could draw a bite or two. I felt the jig bump something- hesitated and felt that old thump/thump and...set the hook. Twenty seconds later I land a 17", 2 lb,12oz. largemouth. But the cool part was he was followed in by 5 or 6 bass as big or bigger. And the coolest part is I still had almost an hour to fish. Weighed and taped him, ran down the bank about 40' and tossed him back in. Threw the jig in and got bit almost as soon as it touched down- this bass was a little heftier and had 4 others follow it in. I went to lift it out of the water and the jig shook out. Darnit! I just laughed and said there's plenty more where she came from. Tossed back in and 2 casts later got bit and set the hook on an 18", 3 lb.,4 oz. largey. Weighed, taped and took a photo and then tossed her back. Next cast I set the hook and this one is really digging in- had to tighten up the drag twice. Didn't jump at all just pulled. Dragged her in and she went 3 lbs., 12 oz. and 19". Very strong fighter and if she had a load of eggs would have been 4 1/2 lbs. or better. This one had 1 follower that was at least as big as her come all the way to the bank. I let her go and tossed back in. I looked at my watch and it was only 20 minutes since the 1st bite! Feeding frenzy ain't the word. I stayed right up 'till 7AM and then had to haul butt to work. What a way to start my day! On the 5th I was gonna try to be there at the crack of dawn. Yeah right- shut off the alarm and went back to sleep for 45 more minutes. Finally got there and started fishing at about 6:15AM. My friend Harold was already there trout fishing. I tossed the jig out and it was on- again. First fish was 17", 2 lb., 7 oz. Next one was 18", 3 lb., 7 oz.. Next was a 19", 3 lb., 15 oz. that did the old dig, dig, dig routine. She was barely hooked and I was sure glad Harold had his long handled net with him. He was nice enough to help me land 2 of the fish. He took a photo of me with the fish and the lake in the background. I cast out the jig- I guess 'cause I only had 10 more minutes to fish- layed the rod across my arms and turned away from the spot to take a photo of Harold and before I could shoot the rod jumped. I gave Harold the camera, turned around, tightened up the slack and set the hook. And for a variety of pretty dumb reasons snapped off probably the best fish of the day. And of course I didn't have another jig on me so I got to stew for 5 minutes and then leave for work. What a cool couple of mornings though. Again thanks to Harold for helping me out. Oh yeah- as I'm grabbing my gear to go we look out and see a lone 4 pounder swim right up in front of us and give us a look. I couldn't see my jig in its mouth so we don't know what that was about.
      City: yoncalla, oregon

      Tips: A couple things. One- always have your gear in order so if you do run into a pack of fish you're ready to be succesful. I use Power Pro or Tuff Line braided line on a lot of my rods. This time I had about a third of a spool of 10 lb. Big Game mono for backing. This was tied with a uni knot to about a 1/2 spool of 30 lb. braid and then a 20 lb. Seaguar flourocarbon leader about 5' long. The casts were very long and the knot between the backing and the braid actually was out 5-8' from the rod tip. I would try to immediately pull a little line in so a wrap or 2 of braid was around the spool. The other contributing factor to snapping off a good fish was the fact that after fighting the 3-15 I never backed off the drag. That alone would have probably been enough. Needless to say on the way home from work I grabbed a new spool of Power Pro and fixed that problem.
      And I'm about due for a new net. I may try one of the new extendable handle ones. Shore makes it nice- beats the heck out of dead lifting them out of the water. I'm gonna tie up a few new jigs too and make sure I always have a spare or 2 on me.
      I had kind of weird feeling that I'd had a day like this before so I looked it up and sure enough- July 5th of 2006 I got a couple nice ones on swimbaits over at the dock. And missed a 3rd bite too. When the fish are really eatin' it seems to reverse the pattern. The fish just got bigger and bigger as time went on. Normally they get smaller and smaller. In my experience you usually will catch the bigger fish and then they taper off after you've been on spot for a while. Not always but usually. Have fun out there and be ready 'cause you never know when a pack of big ones will come knockin' on your door!! Candygram! See you out there.

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

  • Coos County
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      Water Temp: mid 70's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took the dog with me to Cottage Grove today. We launched up the creek. Actually saw a few other bass boats out today- a bit unusual for a weekday. I used a 5" trout swimbait, a couple of Lucky Craft ripbaits, a brown jig w/watermelon sweet beaver trailer, a crawdad Frenzy crankbait and a Shad colored Zara Spook. At 7:15AM I caught a 1 lb.,11 oz., 15" largemouth on a Lucky Craft ripbait along a transition from steep riprap to grassy flat. It hit real hard and had both trebles hooked up. It was in about 6-8 feet of water. The next bass came from one of my spots I catch 'em on every year with my favorite lure- a jig! I made a very long cast and about 2-3 seconds after it hit bottom in about 4-6 feet of water a 3 lb.,12 oz., 20" bass creamed it! Thanks to braid and a 6' 20 lb. flouro leader I was able to snap back the rod and stick the fish. I had to tighten the drag real fast to get him moving toward the boat though. I'm a little embarrased to say that had I had the drag locked down tight I probably would have snapped this fish off- it's happened before. Anyway even though I had almost 3 hours more to fish I got greedy and spent most of it tossing the swimbait along channel edges hoping for a bigger bite. Didn't see any followers or get any more bites but did find a couple of cool lookin' spots for next trip. One of them is a spot with big rocks close to a fairly steep shoreline- may even be able to fish it in the mornings from shore.
      City: yoncalla, oregon

      Tips: I love my dog but she was bugging the crap out of me. Really hard to concentrate on your lure when your 75 pound lab/pointer keeps tryin' to climb in your lap. An absolute miracle I caught a fish!

Friday, June 27th, 2008

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      Water Temp: 69-72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 3-8pm. The bigger smallmouth are out in force. Landed 3, one 4.8, 3.2, and one largemouth at around 9lbs. Swimbaits get the big bites even with all the pleasure boaters. Threw a jig and caught some smaller fish. Did not try much else but there are plenty of smallmouth willing to hit. With the water falling the points are the best bet. Good luck and go big.
      City: Medford

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

  • Coos County
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      Water Temp: 69-72???

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: What I thought would be a dynomite month of June has turned out to be a big dud! Went to California for 11 days of vacation. Went to a small pond that I always get fish at with my 5 year old girl and her 3 1/2 year old friend and only got 1 bite and no fish. They still had a good time but I felt like a "bad" guide. My friends 10 year old boy hooked a 12" bass on a squarebilled firetiger crank but it shook off before he could land it. One bright point of the trip as far as fishing goes- a friend that runs the tackle store in my old town caught a 14 pound bass from Clear Lake. He caught a 12 pounder last year during a tourney and the 14 in early April of this year. I've still been fishing Cottage Grove every chance I get- I just havn't been catching 'em. I fished the 2nd, the 18-21st, the 23-25th with no fish. I did take my 2 year old boy out on the 23rd in the boat for the first time. We had a blast! He was totally loving it. After about 2 1/2 hours of rocking in the wind and waves he finally fell asleep. We were trolling across the creek end of the main body at the time. I went ahead and pulled in the line 'cause I couldn't reel in a fish anyway with only 1 hand available. I just idled around for a while with the kid in my lap reading the meter and looking for some new spots to try next trip out in the boat. I've still got a good outlook and I'm pretty sure July is gonna start with a great big bang (Say about 6 or 7 pounds worth!!). And I'm planning on taking the boat out Monday the last day of June and the dog's going with me this trip- maybe she'll be my good luck charm. She moped around all day after she saw me and the little guy head to the lake without her. Someday soon we'll all go together but not 'till he stops trying to ride her like a broncing bull!
      City: yoncalla, oregon

      Tips: Drive around in your boat and find drop offs, creek channels and humps and fish them slowly and carefully. I'm sure the fact that I get to the lake about 1 1/2 to 2 hours after daylight can't seem to help. The normally reliable shore bite just ain't happening for me. But....that next cast with the swimbait could be that 7 pounder so I'll keep tossin'. See ya out there.

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

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      Water Temp: 67 @ 6:30A & 69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the emigrant arm. Started @ 6:00 & went home @ noon. Very nice morning. Top water bite good on a #5 fly rod with poppers. Best bite on rubber was on Robo worms. Fish were found almost every place I tried, however all of them were small, up to 12", in size. No LM"s.
      City: Gold Hill

      Tips: Go early! Going to hot this weekend, maybe 100.

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

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      Water Temp: 66 @ 7A & 67 @

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: A good bite on top water with fly rod & bass poppers. All small however 10 to 11 inch size. landed around 20 SM. Did get a few on 3" grubs, white & green. Stiff breeze most of the morning. Started getting warm around noon & the bite had slowed so I went home. Went to the Applegate on the17th. Very slow, water was 66, only landed two, both small fish. Water gin clear. Good luck out there.
      City: Gold Hill

Monday, June 16th, 2008

  • Coos County
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished for three days on North and South Tenmile Lakes. Fish were few and far between but the fish were mostly 3 lbs with two over 5 lbs. Caught several in the lily pads, none off docks (unusal). Weather was high of 59 each day but sunny. Locals said the fish were on their beds which was late. Still had fun.
      City: Tigard, OR

      Tips: Mostly used watermelon senkos and some white spinnerbaits, nothing else worked. Caught 6 the first day and then 3 the second and four the last day.

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

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      Water Temp: 60-63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched my tube 5:00 am Sunday morning, It was a little chilly and calm waters. Threw topwater, blades, cranks-NADA! I was like wtf! I remembered I bought some brand new senkos and robos the other day and decided to try a white 4 inch senko and a shakyhead with a robo. What do ya know, I got bit instantly. I ended the day at 2:00 pm with around 20 bass caught mostly smallmouth and the biggest fish was a 2.6 largemouth caught in the willows. Overall it was crowded because of Fathers Day but it was a beautiful day on Emigrant Lake.
      City: Central Point

      Tips: Most bass are staging for their summer haunts, few bass are spawnig still.

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished bank across from boat ramp and landed about 12 dinks. My partner did hook about a 3 pound large mouth but did not get him in. Way too much boat traffic. Fished sencos and tubes in the brown color.
      City: Central Point

      Tips: Fish early as the boat traffic during the day is miserable.

  • Lane County
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished ABA tournament. Caught 2 right away, then caught another about noon. One other strike for the entire day. Biggest fish 3.8 total for 3 fish 7.4 pounds. Took second place with that. Tough day on a tough lake. Fish caught on spinnerbaits.
      City: Bend

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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished ABA yesterday this lake sucks 2 fish won it 7.95 lbs we took 8th with 1 fish 1.75 lbs most fish were caught on blades hope takinitch is better next month.
      City: Yoncalla Or

      Tips: fish some where other than siltcoos next year.

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

  • Clinton County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Has anybody been up to lost creek lately? I would like to know how the bite is before i spend 100$ of gas. Thanks
      City: medford

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished ABA last month. Wanted to post since there seems to be little said about this lake.... Fished mostly wood, grass and rock banks on the west arm. (not sure the name) caught 5 fish for 6th place. caught most on jig's and sencos in brown color. Got five bites all day.
      City: central point

      Tips: Fish slow and work your baits into 15 feet of water. Bite was sluggish. Good luck to all you tourney guys at the last event of the year.

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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Amercian Bass frist time on lake 5 fish for 9.90 9th place caught all on 4inch worms nice lake fish looked like little footballs....
      City: Yoncalla Oregon

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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the ABA with 33 other boats, 66 guys that apparently don't have a computer. I guess they like to read my posts but don't submit theirs so..."I'm not going to tell!" :)

      Tips: Keep your eyes down and your lips shut! Wankers!

  • Coos County
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      Water Temp: great

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Cottage Grove 3 mornings in a row this week. Fished the west shore only. On the 29th I got a 3 lb., 3 oz. 18" largemouth on a 5" trout swimbait. Lucky to have landed her- just a sliver of skin keeping her on the hook. Weighed her, measured her, took her picture and let her go finish making some babies. She seemed pretty annoyed about being caught. Moved down the bank to a rockier spot and walked up on at least 3 bass. Looked like a 2, a 3 and a 5 pounder all swimming together. They ignored the swimbait and the Storm bluegill crankbait that I dragged by them. The 2 smaller ones lost interest and swam off. I didn't actually see the 5 swim off. Ten or 12 casts later with the swimbait I see her come out from behind a large rock right in front of me. Wish I had a soft plastic of some sort rigged up on one of my rods. She may have been catchable- if that's actually a word.
      City: yoncalla, oregon

      Tips: The swimbait thing is kind of a trade off. I could toss a 4" worm on dropshot rig and probably catch a few more (smaller) bass but I'd rather catch one good one with the swimbait instead. It's fun seeing how far you can toss 'em too. Plus some of the followers are awesome to look at- just remember your polarized glasses. Have fun and Go, now, please. You'll be glad you did. Tried tossing a 9" Castaic sinking swimbait for about 10 casts but couldn't hit any bass in the head (And knock 'em out!) so went back to bluegill crank and 5" swimbait.

Friday, May 30th, 2008

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I thought I would let the trout fishermen know that when we were out, we had BIG TROUT chasing our grubs right up to the boat. We caught one by mistake fishing for bass. I think the trout fishing should be great based on how many we saw.
      City: Central Point

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 8-2pm today and caught over 40 fish, almost all dinks. Caught all fish on grubs, and jigs. Fish anywhere from the bank to 20 ft. We didn't catch one largemouth all day.
      City: Central Point

      Tips: To catch the big ones don't fish where or how we did, we couldn't find 'em.
      Let the big girls go, so maybe someday I can catch one at Emigrant.

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

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      Water Temp: 60 -65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished for a few hrs on Sun and Mon fishing was good,caught 20 - 30 fish both days lots of dinks and a few good fish. biggest fish a 3 lb LM a few 2.5 sm and Lm .

      bigger fish were 2 ft 4 ft water

      fished crankbaits,purple worms and tubes.
      City: Central Point

      Tips: please put back the big females so they can keep our lakes stocked up.
      keep the dinks.