The smallies rule here, but the lake also produces some very nice largemouth bass, which often will hit the same lures and baits used for smallmouth and may even hit bigger numbers on the scales. The reason is obvious: Hagg’s smallmouth broke the state mark five times in a row since the 1990s, including the current record, set in 2005 with a bronzeback weighing nearly 8 pounds, 2 ounces. These days, however, some of the most serious anglers here are after bass. (We’ll cover more of the panfish opportunities farther down in this article.) It’s also a fishery with great variety, holding some of the state’s bigger bullhead catfish (producing the current state record) and undersized but incredibly numerous yellow perch, along with good numbers of bluegill, crappie and the occasional native cutthroat trout. Henry Hagg Lake, a reservoir used for water supply and flood control in the low foothills a few miles southwest of Forest Grove, has long been a popular rainbow trout-fishing spot close to the Portland area.
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