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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: 4/24/2004
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/24/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Cottage Lake on opening day and they were really biting. Caught my limit within 2 hours. Fish were between 8-12 inches. Lot of anglers. Good day for fishing. Yellow power eggs work well off the...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/26/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 10/26/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Final trip of the year to this wonderfully surprising resource..2 and a half hours landed 3 crappie and 6 perch. the largest perch was 12 inches and just over a pound, big crappie for the day was 3/4 ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/10/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/10/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around noon, water temp still very warm. Again I didn't have much confidence in catching any fish (warm water bad) but I did manage to catch four. 1 10in. cut throat 2 12in. bows and 1...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/24/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/24/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 8:00 till 12:00. Hooked around 10 10-12 inch rainbows. on a wedding ring with no weight. fun
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/29/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Cottage for 2 hours in the evening. It was a warm, sweet evening. Fishing was generally slow, most folks I spoke with had few or no fish. Picked up three 10 -13 inch trout on green damselfly ny...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/29/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/29/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Does anyone know why they don't open the gate until 8:00am? I got there at about 7:00AM
and the gate was closed. I carted my raft down to the lake and my dear wife bless her heart
rowed for me. F...
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: 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...
