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Potholes Fishing Reports

Potholes
By: Ross Outdoor Adventures
Posted: 7/11/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Nearly every day Wednesday through Sunday. Wednesday 12 walleye with a couple over 22". Friday 10 walleye with one over 22". Saturday 21 walleye with 4 between 21&22" a 2.5lb largemouth and one...
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Potholes
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/3/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Ready or not here comes the 4th of July, 2011 edition. The water level on Potholes Reservoir has dropped rapidly as of late, with the elevation above sea level at 1,042.30 feet, roughly a foot...
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Potholes
By: Ross Outdoor Adventures
Posted: 6/27/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Saturday with a tough bite in Crab Creek in the morning, one 17'' fish. Moved to the dunes and wacked two 29'' 10 pounders and a 6 more between 18 and 25"! Great day having to release 22, 24, a...
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Potholes
By: jbball50
Posted: 6/25/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
So my dad came over this weekend to help me move some stuff into my new place so he brought the boat over so we could do some fishing today. We decided to go to Potholes because he wanted to catch so...
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Potholes
By: Boulton 20
Posted: 6/23/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well after some debate, the wife and I decided to hire a guide and speed up the learning curve when it comes to walleye fishing. I called Shelby Ross after seeing his video here on Washington Lakes. ...
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Potholes
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 6/23/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I took my client Ed out this morning before work at MarDon Resort on Potholes Reservoir. It was very calm and hot. With water temps ranging 64-72F We got out fairly late for this time of year at 6:...
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Potholes
By: Ross Outdoor Adventures
Posted: 6/20/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Our Walleye fishing was as hot as it gets at the start of the weekend, Limits on Thursday, with 2 25'' fish, and 4 21''. Limits on Friday with 6 21'' fish, As the weekend wore on and the flat in Crab ...
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Potholes
By: fishinChristian
Posted: 6/19/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went with dogs and pontoon. Caught 37 largemouth, about 2 dozen smallmouth, 2 walleye, 7 crappie, 2 catfish, a carp, numerous perch, a really dumb trout (19" on a 9" plastic worm). Yellow and black ...
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Potholes
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 6/19/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Thanks WL for the walleye video with Ross's guide service. It was the missing piece to puzzle for Thomas and I after many years of frustration.. caught 10 Friday, 5 Sat and finished up with 6 on a sho...
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Potholes
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 6/15/2011
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out and fun fished today for a few hours during the day and a few hours at sundown. Went for smallmouth at lunchtime. Water was 61F at the dam. Hooked a HUGE walleye, probably the largest I've...
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Potholes
By: Ross Outdoor Adventures
Posted: 6/15/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Monday and Tuesday. Got a hot tip on a spot near Crab Creek so Monday morning we started at 6 and the bite was on! We boated 16 Walleye and 1 smallmouth. We had to release a 22 1/2" Walleye as ...
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Potholes
By: Yakivegas
Posted: 6/12/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got woke up early in the AM to the woman putting together a yard sale so I rocketed out of bed hooked up the boat and I was gone.Spent the majority of the day up crab creek trolling worm harnesses in ...
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Potholes
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 6/7/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
NWBASS Tournament on Potholes Reservoir June 4th Held out of MarDon Resort Tournament was won by Lynch & Tripp with almost 23 lbs. of Largemouth Levi Rodelo & I finished in the 30's somewhere...
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Potholes
By: Ross Outdoor Adventures
Posted: 6/3/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The warm weather brought us a great morning bite. We boated 17 walleye including a 28'' a 24'' and several just under 22''. The fish are in weed beds on the edges of open channels, nearly every fish w...
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Potholes
By: fishinChristian
Posted: 6/1/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to potholes with the single pontoon this time. Figured there would be less of a crowd in the afternoon of the last day of the Memorial Day weekend. Honor and thanks to those who have served. S...
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Potholes
By: Ross Outdoor Adventures
Posted: 5/31/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Potholes continues to produce some of the best sized walleye in several years. The numbers are not fantastic, we have been catching 8-12 fish per half day trip. The sun has finally decided to shine so...
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Potholes
By: FishingThePacNW
Posted: 5/29/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
So woke up friday morning and did the 3 hour drive to potholes! Got there about 8:30 and got a tent site! We went to Mardons and asked what was hitting the bass and we got a Senko and some Gamakatsu h...
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Potholes
By: billdance
Posted: 5/24/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Potholes Sunday and Monday. Maybe it was the weather cooling off or maybe it was the fisherman, but fishing was a grind. Water level is still really high. Totaled 6 fish for the two days(all ...
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Potholes
By: fishinChristian
Posted: 5/24/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Almost 5 hours of fishing paradise! Took about half an hour to catch the first one, but from then on non-stop. Too bad the ratings only go to 5! 46 largemouth (no, not a typo), 6 smallmouth, no inc...
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Potholes
By: Yakivegas
Posted: 5/24/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I wanted to try out my new powerdrive bow mount, but all my fishing buddies had honey do lists so I headed out to the Linde Coulee side by myself to try for some walleye for the deep fryer.Nothing lik...
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Potholes
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/23/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/23/2011
Hot Spots: 3
Aaron and I spent the day fishing with guide Shelby Ross on the Potholes. The fishing was consistant, not on fire but we seemed to be getting bit and catching fish throughout the day. Shelby started u...
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Potholes
By: gunnar
Posted: 5/23/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Potholes on the 20th - 22nd. Fishing was GREAT! The bite was on, especially on day two. We started out on day one fishing in the dunes targeting pre-spawn fish, and struggled a little bit. I go...
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Potholes
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 5/22/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
These are the slab crappie pictures of our slabs from my previous weekend Potholes report.These fish fell to 2" micro minnows on watermelon/ silver (baby bass) jigheads with my custom baby bass forage...
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Potholes
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 5/22/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I love this time of year! Today was one of the best trips in recent memory because my good buddy Joe Cortez of Sunnyside caught the biggest bass of his life AND crappie too. We both nailed some monste...
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Potholes
By: Skeeterpilot
Posted: 5/18/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Headed up the west arm into the shallows in the afternoon/early evening when the rain finally quit and targeted the LM. Our friends used swim sencos and rib worms while we opted for grubs and a Swee...
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