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I haven't fished for smallies in the wintertime before so not much help here. That being said, I'd try whatever works for you on a slow bite day any other time of the year. A bad day fishing is far better than a good day at work.Any general areas around Portland where you can catch smallmouth in the winter?
DuPont spinners. Guaranteed.Flies or hand grenades?
Money. Stores full of bass gear. $120k boats that can do nothing but bass fish. Most bass fisherman have 10-20 rods in the boat. 20 Plano 3700 boxes full of lures that are $10 a piece, or more. Lodging and fees for tournaments. Not to mention a few lakes in the PNW are now on the BASSMaster top 100 bass lakes in the US.It cracks me up that Oregon pays a bounty on northern pikeminnow (squawfish) but not on small and largemouth bass. Neither one is indigenous to the region and yet the bass are treated as gamefish but the pikeminnow is treated like the devil's spawn.
Are you telling me that our environmental (mostly just mental!) overlords are really just greedy? Say it isn"t so!Money. Stores full of bass gear. $120k boats that can do nothing but bass fish. Most bass fisherman have 10-20 rods in the boat. 20 Plano 3700 boxes full of lures that are $10 a piece, or more. Lodging and fees for tournaments. Not to mention a few lakes in the PNW are now on the BASSMaster top 100 bass lakes in the US.
So then, do you remember?....We would catch them above the falls in Oregon City. There's a boat ramp at the park in Willamette (West Linn of of the 10th St exit of 205)
No, I don't.So then, do you remember?....
When the mills were operating in West Linn, Oregon City, and up and down the river, massive log rafts were moored along the river bank at Rock Island, (Canemah and Coalca). These rafts were easily accessed by bank fisherman, and crappies were easily caught at the edges and below these log rafts.
So then, do you remember?....
When the mills were operating in West Linn, Oregon City, and up and down the river, massive log rafts were moored along the river bank at Rock Island, (Canemah and Coalca). These rafts were easily accessed by bank fisherman, and crappies were easily caught at the edges and below these log rafts.
Later on today I did have a vague memory pop up of those rafts from a long time ago. Mostly on the east side, if I remember correctly.No, I don't.
Do you remember Carpenter's Pond? I hooked a smally in there years ago but lost it. That thing had a 3" long Rapala sideways in it's mouth the last time it jumped.Later on today I did have a vague memory pop up of those rafts from a long time ago. Mostly on the east side, if I remember correctly.
In JD?Do you remember Carpenter's Pond? I hooked a smally in there years ago but lost it. That thing had a 3" long Rapala sideways in it's mouth the last time it jumped.
Just west of town.In JD?