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Potholes Fishing Reports

By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/13/2002
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/13/2002
Hot Spots: 0
My dad and I met his friend over at the Potholes around 9am Friday Morning. We go over there a couple times a year, and having been fishing there since I was a kid (I'm 32 now, so its been a while). M...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/24/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/24/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Stayed at Mardon Resort Saturday night and fished the lake Sunday from about 7am to 11:30am. Since this was my first time fishing this lake, I did not have any high expectations. I was hoping to ca...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/23/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/23/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Left Enumclaw at 2:30 AM, was at Mar Don by 5:30, fishing by 6. This was my first time at mar don and im certainly coming back. I caught a 4 pounder (trout) within thirty minutes, then spent most...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/23/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/23/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Just wanted to share with other fisherman out there. I wish more people would use it. Anyway fished on 8/23. Went an did some more Bass fishing for small mouths. In 3 hours I caught 8 fish on zzoom 4"...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/10/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/10/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Well I went to Potholes at Mar Don and fished for bass. I caught quite a few off the dock both largemouth and smallmouth. Anywhere from the small 6 inch smallies, or up to 19 inch largeies and small...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/30/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/30/2002
Hot Spots: 0
I have just moved here from the south. Louisiana to be specific. The fishing there is for largemouth Bass fishing channel holes, trees and stumps mainly. Fishing is very different between the two sta...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/29/2002
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/29/2002
Hot Spots: 0
First ever trip to Potholes in hopes of landing those lunker trout I have read and heard about. Funny thing was all my daughter and I could catch were walleyes. Leave it to a kid to show you the po...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/21/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/21/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived Friday night and started trolling inside the dunes for walleye and trout. We used double whammy's/worm and wally pops/worm. In 2 hours we had 4 walleye in the boat between 3 guys, the largest ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/16/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Potholes 6/16-21, very good trout fishing smallest size that I saw was 16 inch, ave 16-20 inches. I caught mine by trolling double whammy w/worms at slow speed. Mardon resort was catching them...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/8/2002
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Rating: 2
Fished: 6/8/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Well went out to Potholes to try for bass. It was very windy and the water was pretty rough. I tried off the Mar Don dock at about 9 am saturday morning. At the end of the dock near the rocks I got ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/24/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/24/2002
Hot Spots: 0
I stopped off at the upper parking lot in the dunes and walked in with some plastics. I only fished for about two hours, but I caught 6 fish (largemouth-bass). Three of them were around 3 pounds each ...
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Posted: 5/4/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/4/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Lind Coulee branch of the Pot Holes with guide Curt Welch and his friend, Mike. It was a day of solid action. We caught 44 walleye, 14 legals and a nice small mouth bass. The rig of the day...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/20/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/20/2002
Hot Spots: 0
MY WIFE SHIRLEY & I FISHED POTHOLES TO PRE-FISH FOR THE UP COMING ROD MESEBERG TOURNEY. WE FOUND THE FISH SCATTERED FROM 20 TO AS DEEP AS 62 FT. WE LANDED AROUND 80 FISH IN A DAY AND A HALF, AND ONLY...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/20/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/20/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Myself and my kids went fishing at the Potholes Canal (Seep Lakes). We got there found a nice spot to fish. We were there for about 1 hour and we got no bites. We also did not see another person. Over...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/18/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/18/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Tried to find the dunes for bass fishing except had cruddy directions that led me into farm fields. So I fished the dock at Mardon Resort. Walleye fishing is waking up there. Jigged a jig and a cra...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/9/2002
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Rating: 2
Fished: 2/9/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing is slow right now. Water temp is at 36 degrees, and the fish are very slow to the take. No one else was doing any good either. Did pick up 1 16 inch bow on a white bikini needlefish with 3 co...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/5/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 2/5/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Fished at the mouth of Frenchman in 15 to 25 feet of water using worm rigs with bottom walkers. Caught a mix of shaker walleye and 15 to 16 inch trout. Used chanteuse during cloudy periods and nickel ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/21/2001
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Rating: 2
Fished: 10/21/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Fished everywhere (trolled), Frenchman's wasteway, Med Beach, Mardon, Face of the Dam too.....My partner got 1, 15 inch trout in 6 hours. WIND, RAIN, CHOP, COLD, I sure am glad the weather was crummy...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/21/2001
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Rating: 3
Fished: 10/21/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Camped at Potholes State Park from Oct 17 to Oct 21. We fished the seep lakes and had some sucess catching little guys (8 inches or so). On Sunday I got up early and fished in the area of Frenchman W...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/16/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Couldn't find the largemouth bite (caught 12", but nothing else) on Sat. or Sun. Tried shallow deep, brush, lilies, crab creek, dunes, East shore, but all to no avail. Threw black 7 " yakamoto wor...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/9/2001
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/9/2001
Hot Spots: 0
3 to 5 ft waves didn't keep us from catching some monster trout ! Frenchy's (Frenchmans wasteway) is jumping with large trout. 23 Feet of water seemed to be the hot spot... within 5 minutes we had 2...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/4/2001
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Rating: 2
Fished: 6/4/2001
Hot Spots: 0
I was trout fishing with my friend "swede" and hadn't been doing too well. The wind stopped blowing so we headed over to the state park and started fishing about 4:00 pm. Hooked a monster, probably ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/31/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/31/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Rented a boat at Mar Don. Dad and I trolled around with no luck for three hours. Several boats at mouth of Frenchman's but saw no fish caught. We tied on a couple of diving crank baits and trolled bac...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/11/2001
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Rating: 1
Fished: 5/11/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Had high hopes for a weekend at potholes, but alas...twas not to be. Fishing was horrible. Talked with a lot of people and not a single Walleye caught and I only saw one guy pull in a trout the entire...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/8/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/8/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Large trout are coming out of the shore brush to strike at plugs and Mepps #2's. Water level still high. Perch to 15" caught off the dock at Mardon. Crappie are in the dunes spawning. No bass at t...
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