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Potholes Fishing Reports

By: Slabking
Posted: 5/9/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Checked out Potholes and the Seeps. Water temps from 54 - 58.4 in productive areas. Most of the fish caught were staging for spawn. I did spot a number of fish holding on beds. 6" Hudds worked slowly...
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Posted: 5/7/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Just returned from an 8 day adventure on Potholes. What an interesting trip. We expierenced everything from sunshine, crazy winds and even snow!!! The fishing wasn't fast and furious, but it was ...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 4/28/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This is a report for this past weekend's trip to the Potholes Resevoir: 4/24 Arrived at 3pm and in spite of the wind launched at around 5pm after getting camp set. Ran to the dunes and found them s...
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By: Yakivegas
Posted: 4/28/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
After a dissapointing morning at Warden I moved over to the Lind Coulee for some walleye action.It didnt take me long to find a good school of biters and had pretty good action for 2 or 3 hours.I was ...
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By: bschinski
Posted: 4/25/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Medicare Beach and the west end of Lind Coulee. Tried worms, blade baits and jigs. No luck at all. The wind didn't help.
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By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 4/21/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Potholes Open was this past weekend. It took over 47 Lbs. to win the tournament! Aaron Echternkamp won the tournament. Below is a picture of my two 5.5 Lb.+ Smallmouth caught on Saturday of the tourna...
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By: b8nwa8
Posted: 4/19/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Launched in the Lind Coulee and pretty much stayed in the coulee....water temp was 54 to 56..tons of boats on the water due to Mardon putting on their annual bass touney...and pre-fishing for the wall...
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By: gpc
Posted: 4/8/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for walleye at Potholes Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Not even a bite. We launched at both the Lind Coulee launches and fished that area the entire time. We didnt get to fish a whole lot due to ...
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Posted: 4/3/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/27/2010
Hot Spots: 3
sorry for late post first chance to get on the computer. fished Thursday to Saturday. very slow. People keep telling us fish at 40-50 ft. and we did but no fish. all fish were caught at 20-30 fee...
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By: bschinski
Posted: 3/24/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the South End of Potholes hard for two days. Mainly trolled along Medicare Beach and the western half of Lind Coulee. C/R'd six small walleyes, most on small jigs. Caught the only keeper, 15 in...
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By: Yakivegas
Posted: 3/22/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished about 3 hours in the morning up Lind Coulee.We pulled worm harnesses on bottom walkers in about 30-35 ft of water.Got worm stripped on the first hit,caught and released a small walleys on the s...
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Posted: 3/15/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started out fishing Lind Coulee arm of O'sullivan Dam. Took a little bit to find some fish. Water temp was around 45 degrees. Finally starting marking fish by the island most were lying in the 17-20 f...
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Posted: 2/18/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Wanapum Dam to try for Walleye. The dam had completely shut off all flow and the river below the dam had dropped about 4 feet, too much to launch the 14 foot boat. So went to Potholes to try...
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Posted: 1/18/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to try some winter walleye from the mardon dock got there saturday morning and left monday morning. Fished from the dock, it was ice free due to harbor de-icers most of the lake was still iced o...
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Posted: 9/28/2009
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Mardon had it's annual Dock tournament this weekend and the crappie fishing was pretty good. Many keepers were caught and the winner was just over a pound. When I left there were no Trout or Catfish o...
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By: gpc
Posted: 9/7/2009
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Mar Don dock for a couple of hours on Sunday. The fishing wwas pretty hot the entire time we were there. Then a storm hit and we tried to wait it out at the cafe, but it got worse. So our f...
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By: gpc
Posted: 8/30/2009
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Stayed at Mar Don Resort for the weekend and fished off their dock Sat and Sun.I was trying for crappie but they wernt being very coperative. Caught about 10 and only 1 made the 9" min. The perch fish...
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Posted: 8/11/2009
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Crappie Fishing was very slow in fact sucked on the 9th through 10th. Carp jumping everywere a few bass caught but nothing to talk about. but on the last day we killed the catfish west of mardon fishi...
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Posted: 8/10/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing at potholes while on vaction started with a shakey head worm and caught a couple but they were small. I finally sat down and fish on the bottom with some live worms and caught a couple of...
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Posted: 8/10/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/8/2009
Hot Spots: 3
Hit Potholes with Basstradamus-BassFanatic for some Bassin-n-Camping with our Fam-Bams. Got 2 Potholes about 10 am Friday morning and set up camp,..BF had allot of Family 2 help out so we waited 2 hit...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 8/1/2009
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to try once more. I refused to leave smelling like a skunk! ha ha Launched this time, and acting on some intel from a fisherman at the gas station...who wasn't trying to sell me a chartrues...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 8/1/2009
Species:
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got a wild hair and ran to Potholes resevoir for some multi-species fishing! Haven't been over there in about 10 years! Got to Mar-Don Resort at about 9am and got a camp site and a bite to eat then la...
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By: Nelly1
Posted: 7/25/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/22/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished potholes last week. Trolled a green hotlips plug off medicare beach and got hit hard, the trout went 5.3 pounds. Caught a few smallies off goose island with a swimbait, the one i posted bein...
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By: gpc
Posted: 7/21/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled back in lind coulee from 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm friday. It was really slow for us. We missed a few hits on worm harneses, but that was it. Marked A LOT of fish 38' down in 50' of water. Also tri...
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Posted: 7/20/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished potholes from 29jun - 03 july. Mostly went after walley with bottom walkers with worms on a walley rig. Got a 29" 6.5 lb on a red walley rig with worm north of the state park in 35' of water....
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