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Goodwin Fishing Reports

Goodwin
By: TrueJamo
Posted: 4/1/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Opening day of new season, new fisherman myself but I've always wanted to go out and get into it. Took my daughter and wife and met my dad at the north park of Lake Goodwin. Don't have a boat so it wa...
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Goodwin
By: JoshH
Posted: 3/26/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/26/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Pretty much a repeat day of last Sunday, except it rained most of the morning today. After playing around with what was in last weeks fish's stomach, I went with an Olive Woolly Bugger instead today. ...
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Goodwin
By: gljorgy1962
Posted: 3/21/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/21/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Took a couple of casts off my dock just to see if anything would cooperate. Yamamoto double tail skirted grub on a 3/8 oz jig head. Only one hit but it stuck. No scale but it was about 15 or 16 inc...
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Goodwin
By: barbarossa13
Posted: 3/19/2017
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake around 2 pm on this sunny Sunday. About 8 trucks and trailers in the parking lot. Stuck to the southern end of the lake. Threw jerk baits, light jigs, Carolina rig, wacky, and drop sho...
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Goodwin
By: JoshH
Posted: 3/19/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/19/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Got my lines in the water about 8am. First 30 minutes landed 2 11-12 inch rainbows. Released both and continued on my way. Both caught at 20 feet on the downrigger. Got a couple more on in the next fe...
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Goodwin
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 11/18/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/18/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Nada. Only had a short period to fish today, but headed to Goodwin since the wx was good. We concentrated on a couple areas that usually produce a bite or two and hit them with our usual weapons of ch...
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Goodwin
By: JoshH
Posted: 11/6/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/6/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Woke up, hooked up the Hobie to the Jeep and headed down the road. Next stop, Lake Roesiger...... except as I started getting towards the turn I normally take to Goodwin, I noticed the time. I was a l...
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Goodwin
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 10/31/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/28/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We launched at Wenberg Park at about 1:00PM. An absolutely perfect Fall day on Lake Goodwin! Partly cloudy with occasional sun, leaves turning on the trees around the lake and NO WIND! The fishing lef...
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Goodwin
By: JoshH
Posted: 10/23/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/23/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Arrived at the lake about 7:30 this morning. Started unloading the Jeep and noticed that I forgot to load the downrigger. Crap! Decided to head back home, pick up the downrigger, and head back. Ugg, g...
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Goodwin
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 10/7/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Nothin' worked today. Wind came up quite a bit, but we were still able to fish the areas we wanted to...we just couldn't make anything work. Spent 3-4 hours trying all our standbys, plus a few more te...
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Goodwin
By: JoshH
Posted: 10/6/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/6/2016
Hot Spots: 1
With the temps dropping, decided to see if the trout would bite on the troll yet. Arrived about 8am, only 1 other boat bass fishing on the lake. Started off with a size 6 green Doc Spratley on the dow...
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Goodwin
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 9/17/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/15/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Pretty tough day, but with the first fish within 10 minutes right at 3.35#, and the last fish in the last 10 minutes at 2.88# it was a pretty good day! Only one dink caught between those too. The bigg...
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Goodwin
By: Bryce
Posted: 9/10/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/10/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got the boat in the water at ol' Lake Goodwin shortly after 8am. I tried to get there earlier but the 6 am alarm is tough when you don't get home from work till almost 1am. I trolled until about 10:30...
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Goodwin
By: JoshH
Posted: 9/9/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/9/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Been on vacation this week, and did a lot of fishing. Tried a few lakes I haven't fished in a while, last 2 days back to Goodwin. Yesterday I trolled all morning with no success. Today went back to an...
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Goodwin
By: JoshH
Posted: 9/3/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/3/2016
Hot Spots: 1
I have the next week off from work, and my wife is out of town, what to do..... FISH! Weather was kind of crap this morning, actually had to put the rain gear on, got a little chilly. The bonus wa...
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Goodwin
By: JoshH
Posted: 8/27/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/27/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Got a new anchor trolley system and anchor for the Hobie, decided I would take it out for a try this morning on Goodwin. Since I haven't figured out the trick to trolling this lake mid-July thru Augus...
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Goodwin
By: JoshH
Posted: 7/10/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/10/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Probably my last trip to Goodwin until the fall. If today was any indication, things are starting to shut down. Fished from 7am until noon. 2 fish, 12 and 14 inches, and two others that I was unable t...
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Goodwin
By: JoshH
Posted: 7/4/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/4/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Got up and hit the lake before the 4th of July circus arrived at the lake. As it turns out, I didn't have much time. Once the wake-boarders with their electronica music cranked, the water skiers, and ...
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Goodwin
By: sumbeech66
Posted: 7/2/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
First time at Goodwin. Got there about 5pm. Lots of boats and water sports going on plus some wind, made it interesting to maneuver the little boat around. Didn't catch anything of great size but...
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Goodwin
By: JoshH
Posted: 6/12/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/12/2016
Hot Spots: 1
I really should spread out to a different lake, but this lake just keeps producing nice meated (is that a word?) fish for the smoker. I was on the water again by 7, lines in by 7:15. Looked like there...
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Goodwin
By: fisherman92
Posted: 6/6/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Goodwin with a few friends to bass fish Saturday. Bass fishing was very slow so we switched to trout after talking to some guys fishing on a dock who held up a monster of a trout and told ...
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Goodwin
By: JoshH
Posted: 6/5/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/5/2016
Hot Spots: 1
At the launch again by 7am. Fishing by 7:30. Beautiful morning. Surface water temp was already near 70. Best spot today was the cove just south (left) of the launch. I think this was partially due the...
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Goodwin
By: JoshH
Posted: 5/29/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/29/2016
Hot Spots: 1
2nd day in a row at Goodwin. Morning weather did not look promising. Rained the whole way from my house to the launch. Arrived at the launch right about 7, by the timer I unloaded, got underway and li...
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Goodwin
By: JoshH
Posted: 5/28/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/28/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Back again to my favorite lake. Arrived as the Ranger was opening the gate at 7am. Lines in the water about 7:30ish. Terrible morning weather wise. Rain most of the time, and worse for me, wind. No fu...
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Goodwin
By: JoshH
Posted: 5/15/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2016
Hot Spots: 1
First one through the gate this morning, by the time I had lines in the water it was probably 7:30. Weather all morning would go from overcast, to a slight mist, to a light shower. Surface water temp ...
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