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Potholes Fishing Reports

Potholes
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/20/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/18/2015
Hot Spots: 2
The perfect ending to another weekend fishing adventure! I got to fish with Aaron and Rob from NWFR, with guide Shelby Ross of Ross Outdoor Adventures. Today’s adventure was Shelby’s “Cast and Blast” ...
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Potholes
By: eat-sleep-fish
Posted: 10/19/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/17/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Needed an attitude adjustment so hit Potholes for some walleye on Saturday. Started out at about 9:30 dragging Flicker Shad and Shad Raps. Picked up the first one on a red crawdad Flicker Shad, about ...
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Potholes
By: CCTMark
Posted: 10/18/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/17/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I went out with Glenn to Potholes and we had a great day fishing for walleyes. The largest eyes for the day were a pair of 22 1/2 inchers we caught , a double, and released. We were on the water by 07...
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Potholes
By: Wattsamatta
Posted: 10/12/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Spent Saturday morning fishing on Potholes with my lady. Tough day on the lake. My first time there,and not really familiar with the lake at all. Was pretty windy and we struggled with boat control (I...
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Potholes
By: Rondvu2
Posted: 10/12/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Caught around 30 fish in 6 hours. Mostly 3+ pounds with a few going mid 4's. Hooked into a largemouth that wouldn't show himself for 4-5 minutes. Once he came up and we saw him, he decided to go ba...
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Potholes
By: Jose Diaz
Posted: 9/30/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/30/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Watched a lot of guys trolling at the potholes today. I kept seeing nice schools on the sonar along medicare beach, but couldn't get any to bite trolling. Decided to switch to jigging raps, Vertically...
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Potholes
By: Walleye Be Damn
Posted: 9/28/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing at about 7:00 to our usual hunting grounds and pulled out 14 walleye and 2 smallmouth. We released all fish except the two in the picture. These hogs were 25" and 23". Trolling with plane...
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Potholes
By: patrickmclark
Posted: 9/26/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/26/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Put in at 10:30 and left at 2:30. We used a yellow, purple and purple and pink wedding rings. Trolled around 1.5 - 1.8 mph. We caught fish consistantly for about two hours every time we trolled over a...
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Potholes
By: kcadwal
Posted: 9/22/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/22/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Lunched at the State Park about 8:30. Fished the area NW of the park at the start of the dunes. Action began almost immediately. Had two fish in the boat by 9:30, also missed two. Then thing slowed...
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Potholes
By: spokanebassman2
Posted: 9/20/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/20/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Super fun day at Potholes with the wife and some great friends. We got on the water about 1030am and fished until 3pm. Had consistent Smallmouth action in the rocky banks in 14-20ft of water. Caught m...
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Potholes
By: wmaxwell48
Posted: 9/19/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/14/2015
Hot Spots: 3
May 14th to 17th we were at Potholes with the Western Washington Walleye Club. Took a short hop down Sullivan dam and brought the first fish on board, a small, small, smallmouth bass, Oh well 1 fish....
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Potholes
By: rseas
Posted: 9/15/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/13/2015
Hot Spots: 2
This is a two day report and a hard one to rate. Based on the overall weekend experience it should be rated a 5+. Rating the weekend based on the fishing alone is a challenging also, if this was any o...
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Potholes
By: Walleye Be Damn
Posted: 9/14/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/12/2015
Hot Spots: 1
My 8 yr. old son and I started out at about 06:00 at the State Park boat launch. It is the only decent place I know of with a dock to launch this time of the year with the water level being so low. We...
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Potholes
By: bradmccort
Posted: 9/12/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/12/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Got on the water just after 7:30am and began fishing NW of State Park. Trolling chartreuse Mack's Wally Pop with bottom walker with nightcrawlers. Hit one right away then slowd down a bit. Moved coupl...
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Potholes
By: fishindoc
Posted: 9/12/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/11/2015
Hot Spots: 0
CF was off chasing Salmon so my wife pinch hit. We had crankbaits in the water before 8:00 off Perch Point. We picked up a 2 walleyes and a couple nice smallmouths before moving to the humps mid-res...
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Potholes
By: kcadwal
Posted: 9/11/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/11/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Launched this morning shortly after 7:30. Fished an area NW of the State Park. Water depth from 7-20 feet deep. My partner and I had our limits by 10:00. Used orange smile slow death and 1 1/2 oz. ...
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Potholes
By: OGFboat
Posted: 9/8/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/8/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Had heard good things about Potholes recently, so my buddy Slad and I decided to give it a run. Got on the water around 8, off by 2:30. Started off in Lind Coulee, No luck there. Moved over to Medicar...
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Potholes
By: Jose Diaz
Posted: 9/8/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I only had a couple of hours to fish today, but it was worth the very worth the trip! After playing around with colors and speed, I ended up pulling cranks at medicare beach and at the humps in front ...
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Potholes
By: fishjunkie509
Posted: 9/6/2015
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/4/2009
Hot Spots: 2
fished for three days and did really well on friday and saturday catching quite a few perch and a handful of walleyes. sunday was pretty slow but we did get a few walleyes and only 4 perch. worm harne...
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Potholes
By: kcadwal
Posted: 8/25/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
My partner and I fished potholes Tuesday beginning at approximately 9:00. Launching was a challenge because of the low water condition. We found the DF&W launch site un useable for my 16' boat. Ins...
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Potholes
By: Walleye Be Damn
Posted: 8/24/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/22/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Gave Potholes a shot for the first time in a couple months and did pretty good. We started at the Mar Don dock for Crappie at about 04:30 and fished there for an hour, not a single bite. There were 6 ...
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Potholes
By: jaminkurtis
Posted: 8/12/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/6/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Fished Perch Point from the shore where I have had a lot of luck in the past. Due to the low water level the fish are in much deeper water this time of year. Not a lot of luck, quite a few really smal...
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Potholes
By: aortbahn
Posted: 8/3/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/2/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Hit the potholes over the weekend to fish for some walleyes, not disappointed. Friday and Saturday ended up keeping about 13 and 15 walleyes each day ranging from 14-22". Sunday was the the 5-star day...
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Potholes
By: MasterBlasterII
Posted: 7/21/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/8/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Ran over to Potholes for an afternoon of fishing. Water temp was 80 degrees. Located and boated some perch, catfish, trout and then tried pulling some plugs for something larger. We scored a couple of...
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Potholes
By: jnygard
Posted: 7/12/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/2/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Mary and I started the day following the advise from Mardon, we went with 9 walleye that day most fish were 19 to 21" with 2 being at 25" & 26"
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