Willy Smallies

Went to willamette park yesterday and did really well numbers wise 6 in 2.5hours no big ones though. All on a rapala craw crank.


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Went to willamette park yesterday and did really well numbers wise 6 in 2.5hours no big ones though. All on a rapala craw crank.


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Nice job!! And thanks for the report! Good to hear you got on the fish and those Craw colors always seem to do well.

Managed to fish both the umpqua and the willamette this weekend. Good luck at both places lots of juvenile fish. It seems the adults are in post spawn laziness.


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Sounds like you were all over the place then! That was sort of my experience as well. Although I am not nearly as familiar with the spawning patterns of river smallmouth than lake largemouth that I am used to.

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Family camping sun mon and a quick local trip on Wednesday morning.

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Really good considering I didn't think I would fish at all this weekend.

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I did Saturday morning on the Willamette, caught a few (5?). No monsters but I'm happy with anything 12" and up. Got my year-to-date best so far at 16" while exploring a new spot. I'm not giving up even vague information about where I'm catching as long as ODFW has a target painted on smallmouth.

I did Saturday morning on the Willamette, caught a few (5?). No monsters but I'm happy with anything 12" and up. Got my year-to-date best so far at 16" while exploring a new spot. I'm not giving up even vague information about where I'm catching as long as ODFW has a target painted on smallmouth.

I have to admit I was a little envious when I saw that one pop up on the AOTY page, but the years is still young 

And I 100% agree that it's silly they took out the limits on bass - although I am still not sure why anyone would want to take a bunch of Bass anyways, especially out of the willamette.

They are so overpopulated here I figured it was only a matter of time before odfw did something. Increasing the bag limit won't do a whole lot though I'm not eating anything that lives in the Willamette.

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They are so overpopulated here I figured it was only a matter of time before odfw did something. Increasing the bag limit won't do a whole lot though I'm not eating anything that lives in the Willamette.

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Most people are in the same camp as you, but there's a decent chunk of people out there that will take as much as they can just because they can.

It may not knock down the rivers as a whole, but it will definitely impact certain heavily fished areas and as such the opportunities to catch bass in popular areas will be reduced for all. Sure we will always have bass to catch to some extent, but it will definitely impact fishing in the next 5-10 years if it continues in my opinion. The difficulty is that while the columbia smallmouth fishery is top 10 in the country those with pull really don't care about the white meat fish (with the exception of sturgeon I suppose.)

Just my two pennies

As much as I enjoy bass fishing I know they are invasive and brutal on the native fish. With that in mind I am ok with reduced bass fishing in some areas to help support native fish. Although I would rather see those efforts directed at seal ions.


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As much as I enjoy bass fishing I know they are invasive and brutal on the native fish. With that in mind I am ok with reduced bass fishing in some areas to help support native fish. Although I would rather see those efforts directed at seal ions.


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