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Goodwin Fishing Reports

Posted: 4/26/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Goodwin after work today got out there about 6 and fished till about 8. Worked the northwest side of the lake in 7-15ft of water throwing cranks,spinners and jerkbaits nothing. Scooted over to the...
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By: lowvw
Posted: 4/26/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took my dad out on Saturday from 9-430, weather was on and off rain and wind continually. Fish were scattered...only pattern that i could pick up was they were holding tight to larger rocks. 3 fish be...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 4/21/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Was down south at my friends house hooking up my new Lowrance HDS5 on the bow of my boat and since we got finished by 4pm I decided to hit Goodwin and test it out on the way home. Weather was a far...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 4/19/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
A day of could have been's for me.... Launched at about 8-8:30am and headed straight to the rocky point by the RV park. Pounded the area with jigs, shakey heads, spinnerbaits, crankbaits and didn't...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 4/4/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Typed up a long report and lost it all when page locked up, so here's the short version.... Fished 7:30am-noon. Water temps were 48-49.5 degrees. Fished northeast corner back along the east shore t...
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By: buzzbait
Posted: 3/31/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had a couple hours to kill today and I decided to hit up Goodwin.fished from 10-2pm.I caught 2 fish.Both Largies.First one I got skipping a power craw under a dock on a shakey head.It weighed 2 3/4 po...
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Posted: 3/29/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit lake goodwin launched about 7:30 am. Headed to the northwest side of the lake in the shallow rocky area. Fancasted crankbaits for about 20 mins no takers wind blowing pretty good had to head to ...
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By: buzzbait
Posted: 3/24/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to stay close to home today.The water was 48 degrees at launch,but got up to 51 1/2 by 1PM.I caught a nice 3 1/2 pounder on my first spot on a Lucky Craft jerkbait.@nd. fish came on a red craw...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 3/23/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It was just too nice of a day to head home after dropiing my co-worker off, so I came here for a bit. Not much to tell this time, as I only ended up spending about 2hrs on this lake today.... Water te...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 3/17/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Launched about 9:30am into a very cold 10mph wind out of the north. Headed northwest towards my favorite rocky area. Wind was variable from 2-10mph and constantly changing directions it seemed, first ...
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By: buzzbait
Posted: 3/15/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well I went here planning on bass fishing but when I launched I noticed there were bugs everywhere.Looked like a new hatch so I decided to try for some trout first since they were feeding heavily on t...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 3/8/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
FINALLY! Launched around 10am into a snow flurry of all things! Ran northwest from the launch up towards the RV park on the west side of the lake. There is a shallow rocky flat and point there that br...
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Posted: 2/23/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, the day started bad w/ me going to 3 lakes to fish for largies, only to find out they were closed - wasted bout 1 1/2 hrs on that. Then hit goodwin and decided to flip docks for the 1st hour or...
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By: buzzbait
Posted: 2/22/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful day out there.Prob.half a dozen boats.I targeted Smallies.Caught only 2 but they were fatties.First one ate a new "hot tip" roboworm on a drop shot.went a little over 4 pounds.Next fish came...
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By: lowvw
Posted: 2/22/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Goodwin with Snohobassguy from 10-3:15 on Sunday. Surface temp from 43-45 as the day went on. Mainly focused our efforts from about 10-30ft. Worked points, the rock flats on the west side, the ...
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Posted: 2/17/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Haven't posted here in a while, but saw some good reports from BB and 8theB8, so I thought I would contribute. I have a small bass buster boat w/ trolling motor only and thought Goodwin would be my b...
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By: buzzbait
Posted: 2/8/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had a couple hours to spend this morning so I thought I would give Goodwin another shot.After that 4 pounder last week I was hoping for a repeat.I got on the water at 9AM and left at 11.I went to my f...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 2/2/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Water temps were 44-45.5*, and that is about all I have to tell thanks to a moment of DOH! on my part. Inspired by Buzzbait's recent report, I ran to Goodwin today, 1) to run some fuel system cleaner ...
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By: buzzbait
Posted: 1/27/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Trying to prove that you can catch these Bass during the winter.Last trip here and to Stevens had turned up nothing,but I couldn't let this beautiful January weather pass me by.I started out drop-shot...
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Posted: 1/25/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Yesterday went and fished Goodwin. There was nothing, spend a couple hours fishing the docks and rock walls trying to get some bass to hit, but they must be pretty deep right now. Switched to trolling...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 1/22/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Tried every variation of a drop shot rig you can think of, in depths 5 to 30 feet no bites. Tried numerous suspending crankbaits over grass in 12-18 feet, nothing. Water temps were mid 40's, wind w...
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By: lowvw
Posted: 1/18/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had to get out of the house, decided to head to Goodwin w/ Snohobassguy for about 5 hours. Fished majority of the lake out to about 25/30 ft. Mainly threw plastics. On and off rain and a little windy....
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Posted: 1/17/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went up N. to Lake Goodwin and met up with fellow WALAKER "SaltySeaDog" Also had "Datsun" with me. We launched around 11:30? went across the lake to "The Hedge" trolled a couple of passes here with...
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By: buzzbait
Posted: 11/4/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit up Goodwin today.The plan was to find some smallies.No luck for the first couple hours or so.Then i decided to try troling for some trout.Well it didn't take long.Got 2 within about 20 min on a go...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 9/28/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/22/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Headed south for another shot at Goodwin. Still disecting this lake, I know it has great potential, but I struggle this time of year with the deeper bite! Found lot's of smallies just nothing over 1.5...
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