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Potholes Fishing Reports

Posted: 2/14/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/13/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the potholes yesterday. Second time we have tried to fish walleye on the lake this winter. The first time was more difficult than anticipated. We ended up catching 2 keeper walleye and about...
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Posted: 2/12/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/11/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Sunday 2-8 with my lovely wife and caught fish nealy every place we tried. Started blading in 25 feet, caught a 17" right away then it was "smalleye" after "smalleye" with a few perch mixed in....
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By: CCTMark
Posted: 2/2/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I spent the day fishing with two of my buddies, Glenn and Jim, on Potholes. We drove from Spokane and were on the water by 0730. It took till late afternoon but we ground out a 24 fish limit of eyes w...
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By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 1/31/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out to the Potholes today with the Packernut to help him drown his sorrows from his beloved Packers, comming up just a little short against the Seahawks. We met up with lonnie197272 at the la...
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Posted: 1/31/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with AJs dad and packernut,great to meet them, good guys for sure. Hit the water around 830 fished til 1. Hit the humps in 17-25 fow. Water temps were around 37 degrees. Ended with 10 good fis...
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By: bjw444mar
Posted: 1/28/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for 3 days, my buddy Mike and I fished Friday afternoon for 3 hours and caught 8 walleye. Saturday was a bit slower and we fished all day and caught 6 walleye 2 jumbo perch and a 15 pou...
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Posted: 1/26/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Had heard good report of walleye fishing in the past couple of weeks. Alot of boats, all day long. We only had three bites and no fish. Only saw a few small perch being caught. Fished slowdeath to pl...
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Posted: 1/25/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished potholes on Sunday with little luck. Caught one walleye in about 20ft trolling slow death hooks. Caught the one walleye over by the sand dunes. The lake was also very foggy and hard to see. Bee...
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Posted: 1/24/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Potholes continues to impress. Get it while its good.
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Posted: 1/20/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/18/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Two day fishing trip. See my 1/19 post as well.
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Posted: 1/20/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The past month has been lights out at Potholes for walleye. Lots of big fish, anything over 6 lbs were released. All were caught on blade baits in 15-25 fow.
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Posted: 12/14/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/13/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished potholes reservoir Saturday afternoon. Got on the water around noon. Hit the humps out by the dunes and it was on. Got my personal best walleye unfortunately the pic doesn't do justice. It was ...
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By: buc
Posted: 12/8/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fish and game doing checks on fish at launch. Good numbers and good size eyes to be had. trolled with Tricky J harness and blades both worked well out front of dunes all days there.
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By: lohans4
Posted: 11/25/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at the state park & paid my launch fee only to discover after to driving to the put in, that they had pulled the dock out. Would have driven down the road a bit & launched at mardons had I kno...
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By: Jose Diaz
Posted: 11/15/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The weather forecast this weekend called for sun and mild winds, so I made the mad dash to the lake this morning and found fantastic fishing and big fish! Vertical jigging over 20-30 foot humps with ...
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Posted: 11/9/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/8/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Fished for the better part of Sat and Sun. Only one keeper with one pig lost at the boat. Lots of jumbo perch though. No wind and good company. Fished 10-20 ft on the face of the dunes. Didn't see mu...
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Posted: 11/1/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/1/2014
Hot Spots: 3
We went out for our first ever trip to Potholes. It was awful! Nobody should ever go there again..... Ok, so it was amazing. We ended up keeping almost 34 pounds of walleye. Before fileting. We ca...
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By: CCTMark
Posted: 10/29/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for both Friday and Saturday. Glenn and a couple of friends went out on Friday and limited out on walleyes, trolling worm harnesses was the most productive method. Perch were everywhere...
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By: fishindoc
Posted: 10/27/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
CF had the first keeper size walleye to the boat before I got my line in the water at other mouth of crab creek. Chartreuse spinners/slow death rigs behind bottom bouncers yielded 10 eyes between 17...
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By: fishindoc
Posted: 10/24/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/24/2014
Hot Spots: 0
My regular fishing partners bailed on me and I must have looked pretty pitiful so my wife agreed to go with me today. We fished from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Fishing was much slower today than recent ou...
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By: Yakivegas
Posted: 10/22/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/19/2014
Hot Spots: 1
This report is for Sunday,and Monday.The walleye bite has really been off the charts in both numbers and size.Both days I limited on walleye before noon.They seemed to bite about anything I put out th...
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By: snakeeyes
Posted: 10/20/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Due to the reports the past few weeks, my buddy and I decided to make the 2 hour trek to the potholes last Saturday for the first time. We typically target eyes on Roosevelt and the Snake, so we took...
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Posted: 10/18/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I went to Moses Lake to watch my father-in-law, Larry Ellestad, get inducted into the ML Chamber of Commerce Agriculture Hall of Fame, but every trip over there always involves fishing because we both...
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Posted: 10/16/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/12/2014
Hot Spots: 1
We decided to go to Potholes the 11th thru 13th, we hadn't fished there for a couple of years. Saturday was pretty windy so we didn't go out. Got a late start on Sunday, didn't hit the water until 11,...
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By: TiredMark
Posted: 10/15/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Thought I would give the Potholes a shot as there has been good reports. Launched Sunday morning and had the first 3 walleyes trolling up the Lind coulee/wasteway. Things went quiet for a very long ...
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