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Potholes Fishing Reports

Posted: 10/20/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/19/2016
Hot Spots: 1
I hit Potholes Reservoir yesterday to test several lures. The fishing was slow; only one rainbow to the net. (Had another one throw the hooks behind the boat.) In spite of only netting one fish, a...
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By: Yakivegas
Posted: 10/13/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/12/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Since I had a discovery pass.I decided to put in to use with the 7 buck launch fee,and use the state park launch since its much deeper than the rest.Besides Its a straight shot out to the dunes from t...
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By: DavidA
Posted: 9/28/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/23/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Finally the date for our first fall fishing weekend arrived. Down to only 4 of us (3 boats) from an initial 6 or 7 from Kitsap County, Thom and I headed to Potholes Reservoir, while Tony and Linda hea...
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Posted: 9/26/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/25/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Well I thought I would give the Potholes a try and found the fishing is still just as bad as it was a few weeks ago. I focused on the Medicare Beach area. I managed to catch a very small crappie, bass...
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Posted: 9/11/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished all day for walleye and/or perch. Caught 7 fish all day, two big largemouth bass, 2 small perch and 3 catfish. Very slow day. Tried trolling worm harnesses and still fishing with worms. Vood da...
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By: C-money
Posted: 9/6/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Slow day on the Potholes. Was sure a great weather day though. Had 5 bites , landed two dandy largemouths, and a perch. Had a crushing hit that did not stay hooked, followed later by a dandy aerobatic...
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Posted: 9/6/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Took the day off to beat the holiday crowd and tried my luck on Potholes. I put in at the State Park and headed to Crab Creek area. Tried trolling the usual walleye gear over the humps for 4 hours and...
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Posted: 9/5/2016
Species: Catfish
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Took the boat to Potholes. Nice day, warm, a little breeze, but not windy. Fuel line broke so ran on the trolling motor all day. Had more to fear from Jet Skiers and boats pulling rafts. Went to Ma...
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Posted: 9/4/2016
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/28/2016
Hot Spots: 2
So we headed over the mountains last weekend for my wife's family annual birthday bash in Ephrata as she shares the same birthday with her brother but with a spread of 15 years so had a great bbq with...
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By: topdawg47
Posted: 9/4/2016
Species: Catfish
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/20/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went on a 2.5 fishing trip with a group of gents from church. Rented a cabin at Potholes state park. Caught some perch (small), small mouth bass (small), and decent size large mouth bass at Corr...
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Posted: 7/13/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Lind coulee arm of the main lake. Got a few small walleye one 6+ pounder CV and one huge crappie. Smile blade slow death in chartreuse and prism blade. Fishing in around 45' of water huggin...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 7/12/2016
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/11/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Took off for Potholes Monday morning about 0430. Always a fun trip regardless of how the fishing is. While the fishing was anything but hot this trip I still managed to boat some bass, spook some deer...
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Posted: 7/4/2016
Species: Catfish
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/3/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Well went to potholes over the weekend to do some catfishing from the banks. Found a nice secret little spot a few miles past mar don. Me and a buddy posted up over night and next thing I know my pol...
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By: Honda
Posted: 6/24/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at about 6:00 at the dam and headed to Medacare Beach for some trophy size trout. dropped our lines in and 10 mins. later FISH ON!!!!! 4LB. 2OZ. Fished another hour in the wind without a hit ...
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Posted: 6/16/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/15/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We went out to Potholes for a couple of hours on Wednesday morning and hit the water about 8:00 launching from the State Park. We headed up to Crab Creek and started in 8-20 FOW with no luck. We moved...
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By: Gbergman
Posted: 6/8/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Day 1: We ventured out on our annual spring potholes trip for my two boys and I from the 2nd thru the 6th of June. Our trip was going to be a little different this year as the in-laws invited themselv...
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By: Yakivegas
Posted: 5/31/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/28/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Got to the lake from Yakima at around 9am.Headed out to medicare to start my day.Upon getting there I realized I had left my ipilot remote back at the truck so I started trolling with the kicker motor...
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By: DavidA
Posted: 5/26/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/20/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This was my 3rd trip to Central Washington this spring, from west of Seattle. For the past 2-3 years I have been organizing a group of 4-6 friends with 4 boats, to spend a couple long weekends fishing...
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By: cobrar543
Posted: 5/23/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2016
Hot Spots: 2
We camped Friday night to Sunday AM. Did some bank fishing for Cats with no luck Friday pm and got dinner done just as the rain started. Poured all night, but woke up to clearing clouds and no much w...
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Posted: 5/22/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/21/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Hit the water around 8am and headed to crab creek. The day before produced five walleye and a lost pig, so my hopes were up for sure. The first catch of the day was quick, but it wasn't the usual spin...
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Posted: 5/22/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/21/2016
Hot Spots: 1
We got a late start fishing. We stayed at Mardon and getting our daughter up and moving was a little tough but once she was up she was ready to rip some lips! We started around 8 and headed to crab cr...
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Posted: 5/4/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2016
Hot Spots: 3
My friend wanted to hit some SMB's so we launched about 9 AM at Lind Coulee. Water was almost full pool and 63* with only a hint of a breeze on this bright sunny day. Went to the various rock piles ...
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Posted: 5/3/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2016
Hot Spots: 3
It's Tuesday and I have had a day to recoup from the Potholes. We were out Friday PM through Sunday AM. In that time we had 6 fish in the boat. 1 was released. The others are dinner. On board were Wi...
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Posted: 5/2/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing for walleye Sunday AM in Lind Coulee off Potholes trolling a worm rig behind a bottom bouncer. Only caught one small walleye but I landed a 26 inch burbot in about 20-30 feet of water. ...
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Posted: 4/12/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to head over to Potholes for a few days. Planned to stay 2 night. Got there at about 2:30. Hmmm, self check in only. Only have enough cash for 1 night. Weather might not hold until Weds too...
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