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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/19/1998
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/19/1998
Hot Spots: 0
WENT TO COTTAGE LAKE YESTERDAY,ALTHOUGH THE LAKE ACCESS WAS CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC (opens today) FISHED FROM A FRIENDS DOCK.I LIVE ONE BLOCK AWAY.STARTED ABOUT
12.00 NOON,USING PINK POWER BAIT.USING AB...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/13/1999
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Rating: 2
Fished: 6/13/1999
Hot Spots: 0
New at belly-boats so just a few strikes but watched 6 fish landed on dock in two hours (7 to 9 a.m.) including a nice 16 inch rainbow.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/5/1999
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/5/1999
Hot Spots: 0
I keep catching small rainbows about 5 to 6 inches long on a small streamer fly. I see people catching nice Bass and Crappies on worms both right by the dock and further out. I've also seen fly...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/8/1999
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/8/1999
Hot Spots: 0
Brought some new people with me, belly boaters from Alaska who've recently moved down. Trying to find some fishing. I caught and kept two nice rainbow, one about 13 inches, and one an inch or so small...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/14/1999
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/14/1999
Hot Spots: 0
My father and I went fishing at cottage lake because we heard
there were some big bass in there. It was a pain getting our boat in the water because there is no boat launch. Finally, we got our boat...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/28/1999
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/28/1999
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Cottage Lake through the morning on August 28. I wasn't expecting much so late in the season. Caught many small trout and released all the healthy ones. Then I got into two larger, about 13-...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/30/1999
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Rating: 2
Fished: 10/30/1999
Hot Spots: 0
Went out for a final day of fishing before the season closed at cottage lake. When I got to the lake I saw a man leaving with a stringer full of trout around 15''. I fished for 3 hours and wasn't able...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/28/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/28/2000
Hot Spots: 0
I fished off the dock Sat., Sun., and Monday and limited in an hour each day.
I let most go, 'cause I want them to get bigger!
CATCH & RELEASE, PLEASE.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/29/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/29/2000
Hot Spots: 0
I started fishing the lake around 6:30am the dock was pretty packed. My friend and I caught our limit in about 3 hours. I caught a few on a bright yellow flatfish and also a few on rainbow Power Bai...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/29/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/29/2000
Hot Spots: 0
I went out with my two brothers on opening day. It was a little slow at first but towards the end of the day it really picked up. we were using power eggs and they seemed to work really well. How we...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/30/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/30/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Cottage Lake Monday with my wife and 4 year old son from noon till 4:00pm. Beautiful day and not too crowded on the dock, my son caught his first fish in about 45 seconds after I cast out his l...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/2/2000
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/2/2000
Hot Spots: 0
My two kids and I went fishing. Fishing was great! Little Joey caught a 13 inch rainbow. My other kid Nathan caught 3 rainbows. I also caught a few. We we using powerbait. Cottage Lake is a great...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/7/2000
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/7/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing with my son at Cottage Lake on Sunday. We fished from the shore just to the left of the large dock. Caught 3 missed 5 used yellow or green powerbait. The bait has to be 36 inches or mor...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/7/2000
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Rating: 2
Fished: 5/7/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Had some nice strikes but only successfully landed one fish. Saw quite a few fish fooled by a fly-fisherman. Other people had some nice fish caught off powerbait.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/12/2000
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/12/2000
Hot Spots: 0
It was a little slow off the dock. It could have been the water temp though. I found the best way to catch 'em .use2lb line with a 6 ounce weight and a bought a 6 ft leader. Then add your pop gear t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/20/2000
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Rating: 1
Fished: 6/20/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Went out late afternoon/early evening. Worked the North shore from the dock then moved east along the shore. Absolutely no action for anyone. I was fly fishing (waded out about 20ft), others on the...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/1/2000
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Rating: 2
Fished: 8/1/2000
Hot Spots: 0
My friend Hayden and I had my mom drive us to Cottage Lake to see how the fishing was. We didn't catch anything. However, the next time we went we caught two nice Rainbows on night crawlers and spri...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/6/2000
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/6/2000
Hot Spots: 0
I took my friends 13 year old son to Cottage lake for the evening bite and we had many bites on trolled worms. We caught 5 fish total. 1 yellow perch, 1 very small bass, 2 Rainbow trout and 1 cutthroa...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/29/2001
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Rating: 2
Fished: 4/29/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake at about 11 am, several boats were leaving, the docks were jammed with folks still fishing the opener. About 4 of us on the lake were drowning flies. I was noticing there must have bee...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/29/2001
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/29/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out to cottage with some good friends. Nailed a total of 4 fish all around the same size of 8''. It was a great time, and not near as many people as I would have expected.
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...
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: 5/21/2001
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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: 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...
