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I-82 Pond 5
I-82 Pond 5
By: PokeyPrasch
Posted: 4/12/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at 9 or so, dropped the pontoon in Pond 4 and caught a small trout on the way to Pond 5. It was frustrating at first, drop shot and wacky rig were getting tons of bites but very few hookups. ...
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I-82 Pond 6 Buena Pond
I-82 Pond 6 Buena Pond
By: PokeyPrasch
Posted: 3/17/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/15/2014
Hot Spots: 2
Wasn't able to get out of the house until 1:00pm. Drove past all the ponds and 6 was the right combination of space to park and room to fish. Really wanted to hit ponds 4 & 5 but by 1:00 there was n...
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I-82 Pond 6 Buena Pond
I-82 Pond 6 Buena Pond
By: PokeyPrasch
Posted: 3/1/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/1/2014
Hot Spots: 2
Fished Buena pond from 12:30 to 3:30, was between 32-36 degrees. I knew the bass bite might be difficult but I needed out of the house. By 3:00 I had no bites so I switched to something that trout m...
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Curlew
Curlew
By: PokeyPrasch
Posted: 7/10/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/3/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Fishing report for the week of 7/1-7/5. I fished every morning around Blacks Beach resort from a pontoon for LMB & Tigers catching atleast 10 LMB with each outing, the largest I caught was on Frida...
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Mattoon
Mattoon
By: PokeyPrasch
Posted: 6/10/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at 9, it was too windy to use the pontoon so I fished from shore. Despite the wind there were a lot of people fishing and I was quickly crowed out being the only one not still fishing with a ...
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I-82 Pond 6 Buena Pond
I-82 Pond 6 Buena Pond
By: PokeyPrasch
Posted: 5/20/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/18/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Arrived at 8:30 and walked the entire shoreline catching 2 bass and a trout. 1 of the bass on a Rapala Scatter Rap and the other bass and trout (12") with an Evolve Vibragrub on a jig head. Made my...
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I-82 Pond 1
I-82 Pond 1
By: PokeyPrasch
Posted: 5/1/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/28/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Haven't fished this pond since last year, figured I'd give it another try. Arrived at 8:30 and was surprised to see 4-5 other cars in the parking lot. I fished all around the lake, and only had on...
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Mattoon
Mattoon
By: PokeyPrasch
Posted: 3/17/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Rolled in at about 9:30, I'd never seen Matoon with so many people. Fished from shore for about 3 hours, had a follow on a Texas rigged vibra grub, and had a small trout buck off of the same set-up b...
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I-82 Pond 6 Buena Pond
I-82 Pond 6 Buena Pond
By: PokeyPrasch
Posted: 3/3/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/2/2013
Hot Spots: 1
When I arrived I was surprised to see Pond 6 very busy, I assumed that they must of stocked it with trout this week. I had no luck for the first hour with drop shot rigs, I only saw 3 other fish caug...
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Mattoon
Mattoon
By: PokeyPrasch
Posted: 10/8/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at about 8:30, walked the edge of the lake almost the entire distance around. I caught more than 10 LMB, the biggest at 11". I used a drop shot the entire day, it seems to be the only thin...
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Mattoon
Mattoon
By: PokeyPrasch
Posted: 8/13/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
A friend and I arrived at about 10:30. The water was quite green, I decided to leave the pontoon in the car. Fished from the dock for 30 minutes, caught 3-4 LMB dropshotting a Powerteam Melon tickle...
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Curlew
Curlew
By: PokeyPrasch
Posted: 7/6/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/30/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Got up on Saturday with bass on my brain. Put together my pontoon and hit the water around Black's Beach where I was staying. Did very well at both ends of Black's beach, but fingerlings all in betw...
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I-82 Pond 4
I-82 Pond 4
By: PokeyPrasch
Posted: 6/24/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/24/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Arrived at 9:30, fished along the north bank, caught 2 small bass around the tree about mid way down that bank. Drop-shotting roboworms (Brown/Oxblood flake), and then a decent crappie dropshotting a ...
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I-82 Pond 1
I-82 Pond 1
By: PokeyPrasch
Posted: 6/17/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Nice day, figured I'd try out some new tackle to see if any of it is worth taking to Curlew Lake later this month. Arrived at 8:30, was on the water in the pontoon by 9:15 (That is more work than I...
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