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Saturday, March 19th, 2005

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: CHAD WATER CAN GET REAL BAD THIS TIME OF YEAR BUT THE FISHIN CAN BE GREAT. IF YOUR A NON BOATER MAKE SURE YOU BRING SOME LARGEMOUTH STUFF. I GOT BURNT A FEW YEARS BACK THINKIN I WAS ONLY GOIN TO CATCH SMALLMOUTH, IF YER A BOATER MAKE SURE YA BRING A EXTRA PROP CAUSE THE WATER UP THERE CAN GET YA. I HOPE YA DO WELL.
      City: the dalles

      Tips: IF YA FIND ONE DON'T LOOK AWAY CAUSE THERE IS MORE CLOSE BY.

Wednesday, March 16th, 2005

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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went to Emigrant this morning with a new fishing buddy, and started fishing right away in the willow bushes at the launch ramp... We were intending to fish for bass, but the trout didn't seem to realize that.... On about the fifth cast my new partner slammed into what seemed to be a record bass, but after getting it near enough to the boat, it turned out to be a MONSTER rainbow.... I would guess it would weigh at least six or more pounds, but we will never know for sure, because as I was getting the net I saw his line go limp, and that rotten fish took off with a $17.95 Lucky Craft LV 95 in his jaw.... (MY LURE ! !) The only thing I can figure is that his teeth sawed right through 12lb. braided line!! About three casts later, I hooked into another one (I was hoping that it was the same fish so that I could get my lure back) but this one was a 3 1/2 pounder that went into the live well... My partner says his wife likes trout..... That was about it for the day, we went down into the willows on the west end of the lake, but even though graphing a lot of fish, we couldn't get them to hit anything that we threw... About that time that north wind started to blow, and the air temp dropped at least 15 degrees, and both of us only had on light jackets, so we decided since the fish weren't co-operating anyway, we had had about as much fun as we could stand and ran for the boat dock.....
      City: Williams, OR

      Tips: Watch for MONSTER trout leaping about three feet in the air....... They put on quite a display this morning........

Sunday, March 13th, 2005

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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I would like to see some other southern oregon region lakes like justin. Southern oregon region pretty much consists of northern california too. (the real northern california not the bay area) Lakes like: Selmac, Lost Creek, Howard Prairie, Hyatt, Irongate, Shastina, Gailsville, Cooper creek, Applegate, Agate, Lake of the woods, Shata, etc. Western Bass does a great job covering most of the lakes mentioned.
      The problem would be that one would get lost on this website with all the "small lakes in between the more popular lakes. Maybe there could be a regional report page to list all the lakes not mentioned. Southern oregon region extends down to Redding California up to Cottage Grove Oregon. Irongate,in California is probably the most popular lake in southern oregon region. Oh, went there yesterday caught two good ones (3-4lbs.) on jigs off outhouse point. Only fished for about 2 hours and spent the rest of the day spending time with my fiance' (DAMAGE CONTROL):)
      Nice day. Do you think people would post enough reports to warrant more lakes,ponds or region? Seems like that is hard to come by in oregon. I posted on tahkenitch last weekend and I found only a few postings in the last two years or so. (I know a lot of people fish it who have access to a computer) Maybe it's the ol' "secret fishin' hole" senario. Heck, people have bigger velcro lips than the fish do!
      Talk to you guys later, Duke <'(((><
      City: Medford

      Tips: The fish are starting to come on at Irongate... "good ones" for the time being. Try crankin the banks from shallow to 8 foot. Try various colors and styles til one takes it then stick with that crank. Oh, fish it like a rip bait, pausing then ripping etc. When the waters up, key in on any wood touching water and pitch jigs/sencos.

Saturday, March 12th, 2005

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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: First of all, thanks to Justin for the tip on Selmac.. I put in at 10:30 this morning with a completly full parking area, never seen so many rigs on Selmac... Might have had something to do with the weather... I thought there was a tournament going on with all those bass boats.. I went straight across the lake from the launch ramp about 200 yards west of the resort, and started throwing a 4" Senko watermelon/red flake, and on the third cast picked up a 1.4 LM.. Fished everwhere that there wasn't a shore fisherman, and just before the little boat dock picked up the second fish, a clone of the first. Continued on down the shoreline to the bridge, picking up two more clones of the first two.. I think that probably they were all males, and with the water at 57, they might just be scoping out bedding areas... Went back to where I started and fished the same areas a second time, but didn't pick up any more fish. Have a wife in rehab, so I called it a day and was off the water at 12:30....
      City: Williams, OR

      Tips: Senkos were working for me, and I never even threw anything else, although maybe I should have on the second pass.... If I had it to do over I probably would have thrown a shallow crank the second time around......

  • Coos County
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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.

Friday, March 11th, 2005

  • Ferry County
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      Water Temp: 45

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: SMALL MOUTH ON THE BITE. CAUGHT 4 FISH IN ABOUT 3 HOURS BEST ONE ABOUT 4LBS SMALLEST ABOUT 2.8. JUST KEEP LOOKIN AND WHEN YA FIND UM THEY'L BE STACKED UP. TWIN TAILS ON ROCK WHERE IT MEETS SAND WITH DEAD WEEDS.
      City: THE DALLES

      Tips: JUST A JERK WAITIN FER A JERK AT THE OTHER END. AHHH WHAT A LIFE!!

Wednesday, March 9th, 2005

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went to Selmac and water was very clear. I got to the lake a 9am and left at 6pm and the weather was great. I caught only 3 fish but one was just under 5lbs and the others were 13and 14". I had to fish very slow and make long casts because you could see bottom up to 6ft deep.
      City: central point

      Tips: Anyone know when they are going to add the other southern oregon lakes to the website???

Monday, March 7th, 2005

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      Water Temp: 48-53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Another beautiful day on the lake, only this time I caught a couple of fish... The water temp on the main body of the lake was mostly 48 degrees, but in the coves it was 53.... Caught the first fish (a largemouth) on a shallow Rick Clunn crankbait in white/purple... The next fish (a smallmouth) came on a topwater back in a cove (I wouldn't have even thrown a topwater, but I bought a couple of Lucky Craft Sammys, and I wanted to see how they worked).... Ran into a couple of guys in a Tracker boat, and they said they had caught a LM & a SM too.... Met another guy in a ?Triton? (can't remember) and he said he had been throwing everything at them with no sucess..... It was a SLOW day, with only two bites, but better than I have been doing lately... Any day on the water is a GOOD day...
      City: Williams, OR

Saturday, March 5th, 2005

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      Water Temp: 53-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Crater Bass of Medford had it's first tournament of the year at Tahkenitch March 5-6. We're a team draw format that encourages bass fishing, knowledge sharing amongst ourselves. Sat. slow but good. 6 teams. 1 team had a limit of 5 for 7.19# all but one on blades in 1-5ft of water. Winning weight was 10.91 with a nice 7.90# kicker fish. caught on a black/blue jig in 16 ft. of water off a tree top. Another team caught a 5.15 off the tressels in 20 ft. of water also on a jig. 13 fish weighed in. Bite was all day. Sun. even slower, but considering the early weigh in... not too bad. Best team (same team that caught 10.91) came in with 4 fish for #5.38 3 on sencos early in 6 ft of water. 7 fish total weighed in. The weather was awesome with very light winds. Couldn't have hand picked a better weekend in March on the coast. Looks like we're heading to Dorina next so I'll keep you guys posted. Duke
      City: Medford

      Tips: Fishing wasn't unreal but it could have been worse, considering early March on Tahkenitch. Here's the wrap sheet. 50% of the fish including the big were caught on Jigs primarily Black/Blue. Big fish was with a pig trailer (not plastic and he farmed off another 4#er sat.) 30% were caught on sencos also mainly black/blue. 20% on 3/8 oz. white spinnerbaits w/ white trailers attached. Only one fish came out of the 5 mile arm the magority came from up the lake past the 5 mile tressel though the next tressel (not sure what it's called). Blade fish came from Mallard creek area and the islands across from the highway boatramp. Most Senco fish from the powerhouse and mallard creek. 90% came off wood...6ft.-20ft.

  • Coos County
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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.

Tuesday, March 1st, 2005

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I am interested in info about medford area bass clubs, anyone who has info please e-mail me. I would prefer pick instead of draw tourney's.
      City: central point

Monday, February 28th, 2005

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      Water Temp: 45

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: caught 4 small mouth drop shottin 4" worm 1 1.5
      2 3.0 1 4.0 in 5 hours. lots o fun with ultra lite rod and 6lb line.

Saturday, February 26th, 2005

  • Coos County
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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.

Thursday, February 24th, 2005

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      Water Temp: 40-48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well, here we go again, this time it was Lost Creek.. My grandson and his father-in-law and I went upriver thinking that we could find some smallies in the big boulders up there, but all we found was cold water... Fished all the way up until snow on the ground decided us to go back out to the main part of the lake... We went to the little cove directly across from the main boat launch, and found 48 degree water, but no fish... Didn't even see any on either graph... We threw jigs, crankbaits, spinnerbaits, worms, splitshotted, and dropshotted, but had only one "maybe" bite.... Can't wait until the water warms up some and I can leave my sweater at home.... Did have a BEAUTIFUL day on the lake though, the air temp was probably in the middle 60's, and it felt like late spring...... Beginning to wonder if I've forgotten how to catch bass though, it's been a long winter......
      City: Williams, Oregon

      Tips: Don't go where I go......

Sunday, February 20th, 2005

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: APPLEGATE LAKE
      This was my first time out here so I took my fiance along. We fished submerged humps, ledges, and dropoffs next to the dam. Also stump beds and rock structures near Copper Ramp. Only fished the northern half of the lake today cranking spinner baits as slow as we could and used tubes, worms, and senkos but had no luck.
      Tried the same presentations at Selmac yesterday but had the same results.
      City: Medford

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Rod, I was just curious when western bass was going to add those lakes to the website? Hope it is soon cause I'm getting ready to start fishing Lost Creek and Selmac this spring, and I would like to have a place to check on those lakes.
      City: central point

      Tips: Thanks for the update Rod!

Friday, February 18th, 2005

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      Water Temp: 44-46

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well, here is a report on Applegate Resevoir which I'm submitting here until Western Bass posts our southern Oregon lakes.... My grandson and I couldn't pass up a pretty day like it was today, so off to Applegate we went.... Haven't fished it since last year, but thought we would give it a try... First thing we found out is how low the water level is..... French gulch is the only ramp in the water (Hart-Tish park hasn't opened yet, and Copper is WAY out of the water) and it is a L O N G way down the ramp at French gulch.... We launched with no problems though and started fishing as soon as we got in the water... Fished the steep banks, old roadbeds, some brush we found, and then went up to the end (as far as we could go with low water) of Squaw Creek arm.... Graphed a lot of fish, and fished from 10 feet to 50 feet of water, and coulcn't seem to interest them in anything that we threw... Maybe I've lost my touch over the winter?????? Well, next month Clearlake, and if that doesn't work, does anybody want to buy a Stratos????
      City: Williams Oregon

      Tips: Water temperature is still pretty low, maybe they will turn on in a few weeks....... Going to go to Lost Creek this week, maybe we can fool some of the young dumb smallies up the river.......

Tuesday, February 15th, 2005

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I went to Emigrant for a few hours today(on the water at 12 and off at 3) the wind was howling so left early. Caught 1 smallmouth in 10 ft of water on a small ledge. This 2 1/2 pounder was the biggest at emigrant so far this year. The fish came on a pumpkin tube.
      City: central point

      Tips: Wait till the water temp rises another 5 degrees. Water level is steadily rising. DRESS WARM!!!!