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Potholes
By: hlindsay
Posted: 4/26/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Lind Coulee with bottom bouncer and worm harnes, no bites. nothing for anyone I talked to.
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Potholes
By: Lundegard
Posted: 4/26/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
We fished the Potholes Open this year. In two days of fishing, we landed one largemouth. We learned that our approach was not always going to work. Our approach was to go to spots we knew held fish...
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Potholes
By: hlindsay
Posted: 4/26/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
fished up frenchmans troling a bottem bouncer and worm harnes. Not a bite.
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Potholes
By: sjrose24
Posted: 4/23/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Tried fishing Potholes for walleye this weekend without any luck. We were using worm harnesses with bottom bouncers and trolled about 1 mph. fishing was slow for everyone from what i heard from other ...
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Potholes
By: johnsgonefishin
Posted: 4/21/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went to potholes for early small mouth fishing. Very slow, Caught one nice one in the picture, on a wacky senko. My buddy caught a mutant rainbow trout when we switched to walleye rigs. The trout was ...
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Potholes
By: allanwalker
Posted: 4/9/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Potholes Saturday and got skunked. Heard of 1 - 17" walleye caught in Crab Creek and one Rianbow. slow day for all who fished Water temp +/- 48
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Potholes
By: kjtemp
Posted: 4/8/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
We stayed at the Lind Coulee area in a Rv from the 2nd to the 7th. On the 2nd we got there in the afternoon and set camp up and went out. We got 4 nice Walleye. The next two days were poor fishing,...
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Potholes
By: Boulton 21
Posted: 4/8/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
This trip was really to try the new I-pilot, but we fished, while playing with this new toy. Water temp 45-47 Depth 9-15 Troll speed .4-1.2 Method Slow death- Smile blades- crawlers ...
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Potholes
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/18/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hadn't been to potholes reservoir for a couple of years so thought I would go get the boat in the water but all the ramps now have signs saying you need to pay $10 to use the launches.... I went to ...
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Potholes
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/12/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well.. I'd have to say that saturday was the best day of trout fishing I have ever experienced. We fished at Mar Don Resort from 10:30 am to 4 pm, and our group of four managed to land 14 trout! All f...
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Potholes
By: Ross Outdoor Adventures
Posted: 3/7/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out Saturday morning even though the weather forcast called for high winds. Water temp was 37*. Started blade baiting humps and drop offs that are holding walleye. Most of the fish are on break...
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Potholes
By: Yakivegas
Posted: 11/28/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Tossed chartreause green PB out off medicare about 8am.It no sooner hit the water probably not even reaching the bottom yet and it was fish on.I was thinking allright this is going to be a good day.I ...
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Potholes
By: Yakivegas
Posted: 11/7/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Grabbed a buddy from work and made our way to Medicare beach for a little bank fishing.The last couple of years I have been doing better from the bank than from my boat this time of year.The set up is...
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Potholes
By: fishdoc
Posted: 11/6/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Loaded up the family today and headed to Potholes for a little trolling. I was hoping for a really good trout bite, but things were a little slow. My three year old reeled in one, my two year old re...
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Potholes
By: Troop of Three
Posted: 11/6/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
A buddy and I fished rainbows in the Lind Coulee arm of Potholes on November 4. The fishing was poor so after 4 hours of getting nipped by the wind we left the lake. I really got into the rainbows i...
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Potholes
By: woodfish24
Posted: 10/26/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Oh boy, the resevoir is turning over. If you are going, be prepared to have green slime everywhere including loading up on your reels. You won't have to watch your line because you will see the line t...
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Potholes
By: Ross Outdoor Adventures
Posted: 10/24/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Our fall walleye bite is on! Still time to get a great trip in before the weather turns! Fished Wednesday and boated 8 to 25". The fish are hanging on breaks and the water seems to have cooled enough ...
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Potholes
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/10/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/9/2011
Hot Spots: 1
Had a great time fishing with guide Shelby Ross of Ross Outdoor Adventures (a guide sponsor on this site, 509.750.7763 ). Shelby took Aaron and myself out to some of the backwater dunes that are only ...
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Potholes
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/10/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/8/2011
Hot Spots: 2
Aaron and I got to the Potholes in the late afternoon and took his boat out for a few hours of trolling for rainbows. We were running four rods and using a variety of set ups. We fished across from th...
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Potholes
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/9/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Caught several nice largemouth. They seem to be putting on winter weight, and fight hard. They still are hitting big topwater lures aggressively. The catfish are also stocking up for winter. Caugh...
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Potholes
By: Logan77
Posted: 10/9/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
My dad didn't feel like waking up this morning so I woke up at 5 AM and walked from our rented cabin to Mardon resort dock to get some bass fishing in on our last day on Potholes. Caught a 2 pound Lar...
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Potholes
By: Logan77
Posted: 10/9/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After sucess bass fishing Saturday morning, started targeting crappie untill sunset. Caught some off the Mardon resort dock. Biggest was 9 inches so pretty small. Went out to the spillways and tried t...
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Potholes
By: Logan77
Posted: 10/9/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got this report in late but here it is. Went out to Mardon resort on Potholes for the weekend because of bad fishing on Lake WA. Had school off Friday so that's when we left. The morning after we got ...
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Potholes
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/7/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
This is a multiday report. Got to potholes on fri nite and stayed until mon afternoon. Hit the dam on sat morning with the wife and kid. Had good action for small mouth about 1lb. I dropped off th...
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Potholes
By: Lundegard
Posted: 10/5/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the combo bass-walleye tournament out of MarDon on October 1 and 2. I normally fish the WSBF Scholarship tournament at Banks on this weekend each year, but my usual partner had other plans. S...
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