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Potholes
By: crappiemaster
Posted: 8/13/2008
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
A little breezy, coming out of the northwest,water just perfect for crappie. Caught eight crappie on white twister tail with a 1/32 ounce jig head. Trick today was a super slow retrieve. My son cau...
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Potholes
By: Edgeran
Posted: 7/7/2008
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the weekend at Potholes. Pretty slow fishing. We managed to hook into 3 Largies, best two shown here (First one caught on a BrushHog and the other on a Creature bait). We also hooked into a 2.5l...
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Potholes
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 6/30/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Potholes 9-11 am. I fished along the dam, initially casting a senko. After an hour of no hits I tried still fishing a nightcrawler off the bottom, then from a bobber, to see if I could get a ...
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Potholes
By: JoeC.
Posted: 6/21/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/20/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Here's nice Largemouth estimated around 4.5 lbs or so, we had no scale!. I took him at Mardons docks at Potholes last week around 8PM. Ten minutes later took another largemouth about 3+ lbs. Pul...
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Potholes
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/4/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Had one of the BEST days fishing!! Caught a 19" 4.9 lb smallmouth off the dock at Mar Don. Hubby caught an 18". Had to throw several back because they were too big! The next day we caught 6 under 14"....
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Potholes
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/2/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
First time on the lake and I managed a 1.7 and 2.9lb largies on a senko and crankbait and broke off a smallmouth. Som caught a 2.7 and 2.9lb largies, both on a jig/pig. All fish caught in the dunes....
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Potholes
By: stroodle99
Posted: 6/2/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
We used leeches off of the dock and caught a huge 4.9 lb 19inch Smallmouth. Just sitting off of the dock and BAM! Almost broke the pole. This was the dock at Mardon Resort. We caught over 13 fish that...
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Potholes
By: gpc
Posted: 5/27/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled Potholes for 2 days over the weekend. Saturday: trolled from 10am -3pm in Lind Coulee. It took us a little while to find the fish, but once we found them it was non stop. In about 2 hours w...
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Potholes
By: NWwoody
Posted: 5/21/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Crab Creek Sunday night, all day Monday and Tuesday morning. We were using bottom walkers and double whammys. We caught 4 walleye one was 23 inches 2 were 20 and one was 14. Fishing was slow. P...
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Potholes
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/20/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing early at the P.H. Wind was light, water temp 59. I was using plastic at first and caught two 12" SM then switch to spinner-bait and caught five, with the smallest at 12" the largest at 1...
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Potholes
By: ripper
Posted: 5/12/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I took the wife and Lil' Ripper over to Potholes this last weekend. Friday was nice and sunny, almost 70 deg. Went out for the evening to Lind Coulee where the guys at the Mardon store said they w...
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Potholes
By: fishtimidator
Posted: 4/25/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/25/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to skip out on the masses playing bumper boats tomorrow, and headed over the hill to spend a three day weekend at of my favorite fishing places in this State...... The Potholes Reservoir! Wooh...
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Potholes
By: Deadeyemark
Posted: 4/21/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
My partner and I only weighed in two fish at this year's Potholes Open. Couldn't seem to put a solid pattern together under the circumstances. Maybe next year.
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Potholes
By: wsu15
Posted: 4/15/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I had a two day bass tournament and i only caught one 3.21 pound smallmouth off a rapala shad rap in shad colors. Some people didn't catch a thing but some maxed out both days and the largest caught w...
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Potholes
By: yakimasucks
Posted: 4/14/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Spent yet another worthless day in search of Walleye up the Linde Coulee. Tried drop shotting worms, pulling worm harnesses all for nothing. Main part of Potholes is right at 51 degrees, and the Lind ...
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Potholes
By: gpc
Posted: 4/7/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Stayed at Mar Don resort from Thursday until Sunday. We just fished from our campsite and didn't catch a thing. We didn't fish it too hard, just throwing powerbait during the time we were there. Ther...
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Potholes
By: yakimasucks
Posted: 3/2/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Launched the boat around 8am & headed out to the mouth of Crab creek.Located some suspended Fish in about 40 ft. of water and started jigging.After awhile we figured this wasn't working so we slow tro...
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Potholes
By: gpc
Posted: 10/10/2007
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/10/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Mar Don for the night. Another trip out there for speeding tickets, but fortunately it wasn't me this time. Any we didn't get to fish potholes a whole lot. We fished it for about 3 hours t...
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Potholes
By: michaelunbewust
Posted: 10/1/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/28/2007
Hot Spots: 0
got out on potholes early a.m. Friday. wind was howling, and then it started to dump buckets rain. caught 2 smallies is all. the fishing was so bad, we decided to not fish the dock tourney, but, went ...
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Potholes
By: gpc
Posted: 9/30/2007
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Rating: 5
Fished: 9/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Just got back from the dock tourney at Mar Don. The weather was pretty bad for that area, but it was nothing I'm not used too. The fishing was pretty good, but the weather kind of slowed down the bite...
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Potholes
By: CK14
Posted: 9/22/2007
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/22/2007
Hot Spots: 0
went over for a couple days to do a little pre-fishing for the dock tournament. fishing was slow as it was still recovering from the big winds the past week. did get quite a few crappie , most were un...
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Potholes
By: michaelunbewust
Posted: 9/17/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
hit potholes all day saturday. dusk to dawn. only caught 5 keepers, but 1 9 lb'er. so, the qualty outranked quantity. did not hear results from walleye tourney. also, caught bunches of smallmouth's al...
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Potholes
By: danielt
Posted: 9/16/2007
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/16/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Saturday and sunday and caught some nice largemouth a few smallies. I dont know where the other pic is but heres one.
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Potholes
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 9/10/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/8/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I stayed at the Mardon Resort over the weekend, hoping to catch a walleye before I move back to the rainy-side next week. I arrived around 6 pm on Friday, and planned to fish off the dock. It was not ...
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Potholes
By: jmay
Posted: 8/28/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/27/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Somehow I have never fished Potholes, not sure why but I wanted to give it a try. Caught a few perch and some small, small mouth in Lind Coulee. The fish finder showed tons of fish in 38-44 ft of wa...
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