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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/26/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Caught 20 or so. Most of them about 12". Catch and release all the way!!! It's the only way to go!
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/8/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/8/2002
Hot Spots: 0
This lake produces some huge Largemouth bass!! Setting out around 6 am I found the bite was on and the big female bass hitting anything in their path. Starting with a spinner bait combo oaklahoma smal...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/28/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/28/2002
Hot Spots: 0
I was planning on hitting my neighborhood lake on Opening Day, but had to skip it. So I got out late morning in bright sunshine to find that the fish were all schooled up down by the dock and in the l...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/1/2005
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/30/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Fished cottage lake and caught a couple 10 inch stockers. Pretty slow for opening day, but not bad.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/8/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/8/2005
Hot Spots: 0
The bite is picking up but the fish are smaller than in years past. Caught a couple 8-10 inchers today and one yesterday. Used power eggs with trout dip off the dock and off the shoreline.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/15/2005
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Rating: 1
Fished: 5/11/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Made a last minute decision to try this nearby lake. Got to the gate just as the park manager arrived to unlock it (6:30). Started working the lilypads to the right with plastic worms with absolutel...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/16/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the Cottage Lake today on the advice of a friend who had seen some pretty nice fish there the past week. The day started rainy and not having much luck with power bait. A few fish being take...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/18/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/16/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Fished with a group of Cub Scouts on Monday afternoon. Most of the kids were just whiping the water, but I did manage to catch a couple of the small planters using a bobber and worm about 3 ft down....
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/19/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/19/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Stopped by to wet a line this morning. Fished from 9:40 to 11:00. It was quite until 10:25 then the bite was on as the sun came out after a hard rain shower. Caught 4 fish and missed 3 more. I had to ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/30/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/29/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Went to cottage lake at 6:00, I caught my limits by 8:00. The fishing got off to a quick start (10 minutes), but then slowed down for about a 45 minutes. Guy next to me was using worm and bobber, i ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/5/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived on the lake at 6:15 AM and fished for about 3 hours off the dock. Many bites and 1 to the dock but got off...time to invest in a net.
Witnessed about 12 good sized trout (12" - 18") caught...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/6/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/5/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Cast from the dock with a buddy at 7:00pm. Fished with pink, green and rainbow powerbait 2-5 feet off the bottom with no luck. Other fishermen were catching Rainbows fairly steadily with like baits.
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/20/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/19/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Fished off the dock tonight....huge crowd! The swimmers were especially disrespectful.
Started early off the bottom with green power bait...buddy was using orange. He caught a 12 incher to start th...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/21/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/20/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled the lake tonight with small flatfish lures and had great luck!
We caught 7 total, including 1 beauty.
Tried the classic worm/bobber at the bite with minimal response, switched back to fl...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/17/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/16/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Fished late afternoon. Tons of baby largemouth. Used powerpaint, nightcrawlers and lures. No luck. Another guy had some good size trout using powerfait with a 5 ft leader. Will try again. Nice lake, v...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/8/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 9/6/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Was only able to fish cottage lake for about 30 minutes, and only on the dock. This was due to the fact the park closes at dusk and I got just before dark. Two other people were fishing from the dock ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/10/2005
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/9/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Got at the lake around 7PM, fished one hour only. Got a 7 inch bass, had several bytes that I thought were pearch. Using a baby bass color 4 inch grub from Yamamoto, texas riged but weigtless. Nice pl...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/18/2005
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/17/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Went out at around 4:30 5 and casting off the dock twards the lillys i picked up 3 ok 10inch smallmouths and a few little bluegills. Pretty good fishing if u know how to work this lake.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/12/2001
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Rating: 1
Fished: 8/12/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Went to cottage for a late night fishing trip got there around 7:30 and a guy next to us was raking them in but by the time we left we saw he had about a 6 foot leader. We had a few hits but no takers...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/29/2001
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Rating: 1
Fished: 10/29/2001
Hot Spots: 0
I hit the lake for a little fishing in the afternoon. I was within about 500' of the boat ramp the whole time, as I planned. I tried water floatman, mohair leeches, and peacock carey specials along wi...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/4/2001
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Rating: 1
Fished: 7/4/2001
Hot Spots: 0
I hit the lake this morning around 8am and fished until noon without a strike. It seemed that the bait folks were doing ok, however. I wanted to note, though that largemouth bass fry are in the shall...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/21/2001
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Rating: 2
Fished: 5/21/2001
Hot Spots: 0
My partner and I hit the lake hard tonight. We left the dock trolling flies, and had no strikes or hookups for the first 2 hours. We then decided not to strike out, and we pondered, we tride chiros, n...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/19/2001
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Rating: 2
Fished: 5/19/2001
Hot Spots: 0
I was bored so I headed out to Cottage. It was already 9, and I wasn't really expecting to catch anything. For about fifteen minutes, I messed around with various powerbait and marshmallow combos, t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/8/2001
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/8/2001
Hot Spots: 0
This might not be the greatest fly lake but that shouldn't stop you. I caught three and lost a bunch of others on a rabbit strip leech and some other fly
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/9/2001
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Head out right after work, got on the lake at about 6:30. Apparently a midge hatch had just ended. Almost out of the launch I nailed a 12" rainbow on a picket pin, then through a series of flies for t...
