Albany gives you quite a few ponds that can be good for warm water fishing, and some of them get stocked for trout too. You also have the Willamette that goes right through town, with public sloughs all over that can hold some decent sized bass if you are in to that. It's is a pretty central...
What baits/lures are you using? With the weather and water cooling a little bit, I've noticed at my spots that bass are hitting more in the 1-3' range and closer to shore. Don't overlook things like roostertails and PMs. Rapalas have been working really well lately for me, too.
After fishing multiple ponds and little streams in the area over the summer, I'd say the best spot to catch a largemouth pretty easily would be the slough off of kiger island rd. in Corvallis (I've caught some good sized smallmouth in there as well). It'd be pretty tough to not catch a fish by...
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I just started bass fishing a few months ago and after a lot of trial and error, this description is literally what my tackle box looks like. I have found that the tubes and grubs rigged like described are my go to. Rooster tails will also attract any fish, it seems, when nothing else is...
I've doing nothing but shore fishing the last couple months and have had great success with curly tail grubs on jig heads, as well as tube jigs. When it gets windy I like to throw on a white spinnerbait and get lots of hits after splashdown; those ones are fun! I'm pretty lucky and my go-to...