Place Fished: Potholes
Date(s): 5/14-16/10
Weather Conditions: Sunny and warm
Wind: light and variable
Ambient Temp: low 80’s
Water Temp.: 62.7
Water Clarity: Good
Moon Phase: 1% waxing

Location Fished: Lind Coulee, Crab Creek, Face of Dunes and Medicare Beach

Lure Type: Worm Harnesses
Needle fish, Rapalas and DC-13’s

Bait Used: Nightcrawlers

Method: Trolled

Depth: Walleye- 10-35’
Trout 50-75’

Catch Record: Nothing

Additional Notes:
Very poor walleye fishing. Only saw a few fish caught all weekend. After talking to a few people, we came to the conclusion that after coming out of a poor unstable, cold and windy weather pattern last week…into a very high prx, flat calm winds and 80 degree weather…that perhaps it was too much of a change for the walleye and took them off the bite. It’s about all we could figure….that's my story and I'm stickin' to it!

hewesfisher

5/19/2010 6:22:00 AM

Seems like fishing was tough everywhere over the weekend, guess I didn't miss much with my non-fishing trip to the west side. Thanks for the detailed report, better luck next time Mav! :-)

allanwalker

5/19/2010 8:33:00 AM

Thank you for the great report. I will steal your format and use it to post my report in the future. I was on Potholes on Saturday 5-15 and caught one SMBass at 6am in Lind Coulee and that was it all day. the many walleye fishermen and women i spoke with had one in the boat here and there a day of fishing not catching. the water temp was up 10 degrees from Sunday 5-9 (56) to Saturday 5-15 (66). the carp are moving into Crab Creek in big numbers, some big ones too.

allanwalker

5/19/2010 8:35:00 AM

Thank you for the great report. I will steal your format and use it to post my report in the future. I was on Potholes on Saturday 5-15 and caught one SMBass at 6am in Lind Coulee and that was it all day. the many walleye fishermen and women i spoke with had one in the boat here and there a day of fishing not catching. the water temp was up 10 degrees from Sunday 5-9 (56) to Saturday 5-15 (66). the carp are moving into Crab Creek in big numbers, some big ones too.

jens

5/19/2010 9:23:00 AM

Thanks for the report Mav, can't complain about being in that weather that's for sure.

mav186

5/19/2010 10:41:00 AM

Hewes: Thanks Phil, hope you're back on the water soon!

Allan: Thanks, this report format works well for me. I just use my personal log and usually delete some irrelevant information...copy and paste over to here. I didn't realize the water temp changed that much...that's amazing! Certainly could help make my case. I noticed a lot of carp up at the face of the dunes too. Wallys were slow but I did see some awfully nice SM though.

Jens: You're right...I loved the weather! But I forgot that one little rule about the tempature change of more than 5-7 degrees...doh!!

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