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Lost (Devil's)
Lost (Devil's)
By: ral
Posted: 8/2/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Lost for a few hours this morning with typical results: 10 fish in the 10-12 range and one 15 incher. I caught fish on a crankbait, a senko and a Carolina rigged worm. The most successful met...
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Cottage
Cottage
By: ral
Posted: 5/23/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
What is it about Cottage Lake? Try as I might I cannot catch bass there. I spent the afternoon trying with crankbaits, plastic worms, spinner baits and got nothing. Not even a strike. This is typi...
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Alice
Alice
By: ral
Posted: 3/22/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/22/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The morning started out cold, air temperature about freezing but the sky was clear and little or no wind. I usually do well on Alice in the spring with an intermediate sink line but not today; I do n...
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Rattlesnake
Rattlesnake
By: ral
Posted: 10/19/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Rattlesnake on a bright sunny afternoon, low wind. Water level is very low, typical of this time of year. Hooked four landed three: 10", 15" and 16". I was using a full sink line and a s...
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Panther
Panther
By: ral
Posted: 7/6/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Panther this morning looking for largemouth bass. Caught a few in the 12 - 14" range using deep running plug in front of the lily pads. Plug goes to about 6 - 8 ft and the water was about 10...
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Joy
Joy
By: ral
Posted: 6/29/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/29/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Lake Joy for a few hours this morning. Got 7 smallmouths, all in the 11" to 13" range, using spinnerbaits, senkos and deep diving plugs. The only thing they had in common was that all the f...
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Margaret
Margaret
By: ral
Posted: 5/4/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Margaret from 8 am for a few hours. It was warm and sunny and I don't think the sun made the fishing better. The first hour and a half was slow but then the fishing picked up and the catching...
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Alice
Alice
By: ral
Posted: 4/6/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Alice this morning in rain, wind, sleet and sun; a least it wasn't cold - mid 40's. Caught only 1 trout in the first hour on a brown soft hackle and had numerous strikes. Changed from brown to...
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Storm
Storm
By: ral
Posted: 8/3/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Storm for the first time in 4 years. Warm sunny afternoon is not the best time for fishing but you go when you can. Water was clear and cool visibility about 6 ft. Caught more than few sma...
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Alice
Alice
By: ral
Posted: 7/4/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Tried for largemouth bass at Alice this morning, but no luck. The weather was clear and getting sunny, the water was calm and warm. Weed growth was much less than I expected. I tried soinnerbait...
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Lost (Devil's)
Lost (Devil's)
By: ral
Posted: 6/16/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
This lake is frustrating, as usual I caught a decent number of bass but all small. Mostly about 9". I have fished this lake 4 or 5 times and have never got a fish bigger than 12" except for one re...
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Panther
Panther
By: ral
Posted: 6/10/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Tried for largemouth today, using plugs, worms, jigs; my only success was using a spinnerbait in the shoreline weeds. Only got 2 bass although one was 17", maybe a 3 lbs. I was surprised to catch 2...
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Rattlesnake
Rattlesnake
By: ral
Posted: 10/14/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for a few hours this morning in rain and wind. I had plenty of action but the fish were all small, 6'' - 9" all caught on a black nymph w silver floss on a full sink line. Tried other lines a...
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Lost (Devil's)
Lost (Devil's)
By: ral
Posted: 9/30/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
This is the third time I have fished Lost Lake and the fishing is about what I have experienced before -lots of largemouth in the 10 -12” range, caught using 4”chartreuse senko. I caught an 11” bass...
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Joy
Joy
By: ral
Posted: 6/13/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Joy on a cool cloudy morning. Consistently caught small (< 12") smallmouths on watermelon senkos. The surprise for a the day was a 20" largemouth. The fish were all in water 3 - 6 ft dee...
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Lost (Devil's)
Lost (Devil's)
By: ral
Posted: 6/10/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
First trip ever to Lost Lake, what a nice little lake. Tried trolling buggers for trout, but no takers. Switched to unweighted senkos and tried for bass. Caught 5 in about two hours but all small -...
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Cottage
Cottage
By: ral
Posted: 5/13/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Cottage for 2 hours. Very nice day, sunny warm but windy. Lots of fish just under the surface. Had many many strikes and caught and released 10 fish in 2 hours using black woolly buggers and...
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Alice
Alice
By: ral
Posted: 4/9/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Alice this morning for 3 hours. Caught three stocked 10" rainbows all down as deep as I could go with a deep sinking fly line. Fishing was slow and the water really cold. By the time I left...
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Roesiger
Roesiger
By: ral
Posted: 7/31/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a few hours fishing Roesiger ths morning. The weather was ideal: cool air, light wind, drifting fog. Water temperature was 73. Tried a variety of lures and rigs but nothing worked consistently...
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Joy
Joy
By: ral
Posted: 7/17/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
A nice morning on Lake Joy: water warm, cloudy, light wind and the fish cooperating. Caught 8 bass between 9 - 15" with the most fun from the 12- 15" smallmouths which put up quite a fight on light t...
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Joy
Joy
By: ral
Posted: 6/25/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
A perfect day: warm but not hot, light breeze, overcast so no sun on the water. The fishing was perfect too: 16 bass from 10" to 16", 2 largemouth and 14 smallmouth. Caught half the fish on a wh...
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Panther
Panther
By: ral
Posted: 5/29/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Panther Lake this morning in the rain. Trolled a black woolly bugger and a soft hackle green nymph behind a 4 wt intermediate line. I had no trouble finding or catching trout all about the s...
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Joy
Joy
By: ral
Posted: 5/1/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My first trip to Lake Joy this seaon. Light rain, water temp 57. I was searching for bass and expecting to find them in deeper water. Tried crankbaits and jigs without success. On a odd chance I...
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Roesiger
Roesiger
By: ral
Posted: 4/10/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had an interesting day on Roesiger. It took me awhile to find the trout but eventually found them using a full sink line in the main part of the lake. They hit a black woolly bugger and a green dragon...
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Chain
Chain
By: ral
Posted: 3/27/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Chain Lake this morning for the recently stocked trout. Caught & released 7 all small, all on a small black wooly bugger. Tried several other flies in different sizes and colors but no succes...
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