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Potholes Fishing Reports

Potholes
By: fishinChristian
Posted: 5/18/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Quick trip, quick report: Jigs outdid topwater by a little, even though I spent more time fishing topwater. Dark jigs with trailer, floater/divers. Single pontoon, brush. No pix this time. about ...
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Potholes
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 5/15/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out after Smallmouth on a beautiful Friday. Throwing Yamamoto Double Tail Hula Grub jigs in brown on a crunchtime football head and Rapala X-Rap jerkabaits in walleye fry colors around the ro...
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Potholes
By: fishinChristian
Posted: 5/13/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Tough day but rewarding. Used plastics and topwater, jigs and deep divers. All caught one or two, with plastics in the lead, natural colors. Most pretty good size. Felt like I had fished a tournam...
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Potholes
By: 8theB8
Posted: 5/13/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
5-8-11 Took a buddy of mine and bass fishing rookie from work over to the Potholes Reservoir for a couple days of fishing. Water temps when we arrived at 10am were in the low to mid 50's, we tried aro...
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Potholes
By: BillMcMurry
Posted: 5/5/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
sorry this is so late ya'll, having troubles with pictures. but anyway, went to potholes on the first. started out for some smallies by the damn but no luck, so my dad and I headed up into winchester....
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Potholes
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 5/5/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I took out Hal and his Brother for the day on Potholes Reservoir. We launched out of MarDon Resort and began fishing for smallmouth right away. The water was still fairly cool on the main lake wit...
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Potholes
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 4/21/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Potholes Open Day 2: Launched at 6AM and weigh in was at 11:30AM. Sitting in 17th, 14lbs. behind the lead sack of 29lbs. brought in the first day we decided to go for consistency and go for Smal...
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Potholes
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 4/21/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Day 1 of the Potholes Open: Jon Werner & I fished the 32nd Annual Potholes Open. The day started out launching at 9:30AM and we decided to try and get our limit of smallmouth before we run to th...
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Potholes
By: Naferious
Posted: 4/15/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Caught 2 18" rainbows and a 3' 7lb catfish over night, used worm floating off bottom. with a sliding weight.
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Potholes
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 4/11/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out again on Sunday at Potholes to pre-fish for the Open tournament next weekend. Primarly searched out new water and ran around the lake hitting areas I have never fished before, so was not e...
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Potholes
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 4/11/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
First "EWU Fishing Club Fish-In" and first guided bass fishing trip of the year. Got to the lake at 6:30am and got all 8 students who showed up for the fish-in situated, then got out on the water. ...
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Potholes
By: gonecrazy
Posted: 4/10/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Made first trip of year to potholes. We didnt seem to get into the fish. We worked all day for 4 fish. One ended up being 19" but the others were less than 14". We did try blade baits for a while but ...
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Potholes
By: nx7k
Posted: 4/9/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Caught fish in Linn Coulee on gravel points in about 10 to 15 ft of water. Fishing was slow due to high winds and cold temps. This was my first trip to Potholes but definintely a come back to place ...
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Potholes
By: kjtemp
Posted: 4/6/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the potholes from march 25th to the 30th up in the lind coulee area. From the lind coulee boat launch we went right with the boat for about 5 mins and fished off the first sandy bluff on the r...
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Potholes
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 4/4/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out for the first time on Potholes this year. The day started around 8am with it being nice & sunny, which held throughout most of the day. A light wind made it a bit chilly though. We went...
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Potholes
By: lonnie197272
Posted: 3/7/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit potholes about noon, the weather was great to start, sun was out just beautiful, but didnt last long once the clouds rolled in it got cold. Water temp was 36 degress targeted walleye using blade b...
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Potholes
By: JonLaura08
Posted: 2/27/2011
Species:
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the night at Potholes and tried fishing all day & night. Nothing. Still alot of ice around the edges and some spots further out had large amounts too. Couldn't get our boat in the water since th...
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Potholes
By: deltadog
Posted: 2/22/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Same story as before....Fished Lind Coulee Arm, and Medicare for not so much as a bump. I actually did see one small perch follow my bait in on one retrieve but thats it. So much for my devoid of life...
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Potholes
By: deltadog
Posted: 2/14/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Potholes at medicare on 2/9, 2/12, and 2/13. Had one bite all three days. very tough fishing right now.
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Potholes
By: Yakivegas
Posted: 2/7/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had a bad case of cabin fever for some time so I took a buddy from work with me to Upper Goose lake,but the launch was iced in still(Probably be a week till its clear)So we headed up to the big reserv...
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Potholes
By: Yakivegas
Posted: 11/5/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for Thurs,and Fri.Alot of decent sized trout coming out of Medicare beach right now.Thursday afternoon I trolled perch rippin minnows about 4 colors of leadcore out at around 2.8 -3 mph...
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Potholes
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 10/28/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
EWU Fishing Club "Potholes Cast N Blast 2010" The Eastern Washington Fishing Club's first outing: We started out up in the dunes each morning, duck hunting. It was fairly slow for us, being be...
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Potholes
By: Yakivegas
Posted: 10/17/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It had been awhile since I fished without a boat so today I thought that this would be a good time of the year to hit medicare beach for some trout fishing.The weather was awesome,water was calm,and i...
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Potholes
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/3/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit potholes for the weekend due to the last nice weekend for the year I think. Camped at Mardon. Fished the dock on friday nite...nothin. Went out on the boat saturday morning and started throwing ...
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Potholes
By: KiNg.Me206
Posted: 9/23/2010
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Headed over to Potholes Resevoir to the 7th annual Mardon Dock Tourney. The tourney starts friday at 6pm to 11am sunday morning with a big pie social and feast to end with. This derby runs...
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