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Bass season opens saturday and I will be fishing. If you want a vacation with free camping and good fishing then give this place a try. This resivoir can be very hard on props but it is a beautiful place to visit. Stillwater reservoir

 

[ztim]

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Try lake Marion in SC. All year season with decent sized fish.

 

[jtexas]

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Y'all only got one bass season? we have several: pre-spawn, spawn, post-spawn, summer, fall and winter!<br /><br />good luck,

 

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we had a good time yesterday at stillwater, entered a private bass contast and my fieance(sp)<br />tied for 3rd place out of 43.(you have to let the women win once in awhile). A cold front went through early and the fishing was kind of slow but we caught 8 total averageing about 15"

 

[FLATHEAD]

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Way to go OMC,, 3rd out of 43 on a lake you dont fish a whole lot is saying something! <br /><br />Looks like a place I would like to visit someday.

 

[one more cast]

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well we kind of cheated, we found out where the winner for the last 2 years was fishing and fished next to him.(a good friend and neightbor) and we used live bait, the only rule is longest bass wins. This derby is just a friendly get together with a home made trophy that you keep for the year and give it to next years winner.and one heck of a fish fry at 5 pm. just being lazy at stillwater

 

[johnson-liner]

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Got to love Stillwater....used to go up to a friend's camp up on Soft Maple Resevoir every weekend for 4-wheeling. Stillwater was always a stop to gas up on the way to Bradingham....that is until they outlawed them in the town of Webb(?)(we still sneaked in a few times and got chased out by the ranger). <br /><br />Never been out on the lake though...well, in a boat anyway. I remember the day like it was yesterday...Myself and a few friends had already scheduled Sept 12th of '01 off to go wheeling starting out in Constableville and on up to Soft Maple. After a solid day and a half of staring at the news on TV we decided to go on up as planned. Stillwater had been drained and we ended up riding the resevoir bottom for a good part of the day (by the looks of all the stumps, I can see why a prop might not last too long). It was beautiful sunny day, deep blue sky without a cloud anywhere....but there was not one white streak accross that blue sky. It was really erie not seeing a single jet streak in the sky that day....<br /><br />That area from Soft Maple over to Bradingham and on up the Tug Hill seemed like my home away from home as a teenager! Lots of great memories of that area..

 

[johnson-liner]

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Oh...OMC..I wanted to ask if you've fished Oneida Lake? Only about 5 mins from my house, so I'm out there pretty much exclusively these days. I'll have to take a run over to stillwater with the boat if I go up to Soft Maple this summer for sure

 

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I live just down the hill from Brantingham, if you go from c-ville to Brantingham on wheelers or sleds then you go right past my house. I have never fished Oneida Lake, If you click the link in my last post you will see I do not have a boat suitable for waves.I do enjoy fishing for walleyes though so maybe I will try it or the river one calm day. I also want to give Delta lake in Rome a try.

 

[johnson-liner]

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Yeah I've been thinking about shooting up to Delta Lake sometime myself....only seen that on from behind the handlebars of the sportsman too. I hear it can get pretty packed with boats, but good fishing.<br /><br />Oneida can have it's rough days, that's for sure.<br />Also, being 26 miles long east to west, it can kick up in a hurry if a storm with some wind blows in (and I'm usually at the east end). It can be like glass or 4-5 foot waves and I've been out there at it's worst in my 14' baby bayliner. You get used to it though...just tilt the motor up a little more than usual, get that bow up and keep it there. (and make sure you have lots of gas lugging like that) I started out running Oneida on a '89 kawasaki stand-up jet ski too (no matter the lake conditions) so I feel VERY comfortable in my toy boat. <br /><br />Here's a couple sites that have lake cams if you ever plan a trip out. They've become really helpful to me...I take a peek before I leave work and plan my afternoon from there!<br /><br />South shore about midway down the lake:<br /> http://www.lakevision.com/camera_11.htm <br /><br />Western (Brewerton) shore:<br /> http://www.syracuse.com/oneidalakecam/ <br /><br />Happy fishing!

 

[self taut]

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ok im going to chime in here and ask forgivness for my noninformed self here.we dont have a bass season here.we just fish.would someone please explain to me about the bass season and why it is?my only thought is because there is a low population for the region.but im an okie and not edjamakated in the idea of a bass season.

 

[one more cast]

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You are correct,I do believe, the bass fishing season starts after spawning is done or almost done so the fish are not fished off their beds.