You can find more of the better metro-area spots in Best Bass Fishing Near Portland and Vancouver. The Portland area has many smaller ponds and shallow lakes, a few reservoirs, and sloughs along the Willamette and Columbia rivers that harbor largemouths. Inland, Cottage Grove Reservoir and Dorena Reservoir in the Willamette Valley and Lake Selmac in Southern Oregon are among the best places in Oregon to catch bass over 10 pounds. Other coastal waters with outstanding bass fishing include Siltcoos Lake and Tahkenitch Lake on the central coast and Cullaby Lake on the northern coast. The most famous of these is arguably Tenmile Lakes, a sprawling pair of connected lakes among the dunes on the Oregon Coast. Western Oregon has several excellent largemouth bass fisheries. Largemouth Bass in Western Oregon Photo courtesy of the Oregon Bass & Panfish Club In Oregon, largemouth bass are not always huge but they have an amazing range, from the near-sea level lakes along the coastline to the high elevations of the Cascade Range to the arid tumbleweed deserts of Eastern Oregon.

Smallmouth Bass Fishing in Central and Eastern Oregonįirst off is the largemouth, the best-known and most widely distributed of the freshwater bass species (with several variants) in America, and the largest of the family of fish known as black basses.

Smallmouth Bass Fishing in Western Oregon.Largemouth Bass Fishing in Central and Eastern Oregon.

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