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Bucketmouth... the fish, not the wife.
Uh, Tenmile Lake, Florence, ???
That quality large mouth can be had in any of the larger lakes in that area. It's not all that easy for a novice basser though. Those lakes look like there should be bass EVERYWHERE! It's tough if your not real tuned in to where they hang. We just play around and once in a while get lucky. Just casting and working all those weed lines and wood is exciting though.
Bass fishing is my passion! When I moved here from San Diego, I was glad to find out that there was both largemouth and smallmouth bass to be had as well as the bird hunting and big game hunting. It's a friggin paradise for outdoors lovers! I had to learn to fish for smallmouth but caught on to lake patterns for smallies quickly. Years later, I learned about fishing rivers for smallies in the Umpqua in my drift boat. But at that time I was living in Brookings and enjoying the salmon and steelhead fishing, as well as the bottom fishing the area provides. I was Jonesing for some bass fishing and went to Tenmile Lakes... never did figure it out.
Years ago a buddy and I took his friend that had just arrived from Michigan trout fishing. He'd fished pike and walleye before. We hiked 4-5 miles up Johns River outside Westport WA. Don decided to take a shortcut that we warned him against and got his 1st introduction to Devils Club. As soon as he got out of that he "found" a good sized Yellow Jackets nest and in escaping (most of them) got acquainted with a number of PNW blackberry thorns.I've never fished for Bass. Maybe someday. I grew up fishing for Walleye and Northern Pike in NW Minnesota. We moved to WA just before the Trout season started and all the kids were excited. I asked how big they had to be to be Keepers. They said 6" and I just wanted to cry. The day before we left MN we had been fishing for Northerns using 9" Suckers!!! Now that was FISHING.
As they say "The worst day fishing, is better than the best day working!!!"
True story time.
I've never seen a small mouth take a 6" hooked, stunned live perch, off the surface.
The all the years that I lived in the south I can probably count the number of bass that I caught on one hand. I liked catfish, bream, crappie & perch.
With the exception of catfish, those are all in the same family as bass.