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By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/10/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/8/2011
Hot Spots: 2
Aaron and I got to the Potholes in the late afternoon and took his boat out for a few hours of trolling for rainbows. We were running four rods and using a variety of set ups. We fished across from th...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/9/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Caught several nice largemouth. They seem to be putting on winter weight, and fight hard. They still are hitting big topwater lures aggressively. The catfish are also stocking up for winter. Caugh...
By: Logan77
Posted: 10/9/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
My dad didn't feel like waking up this morning so I woke up at 5 AM and walked from our rented cabin to Mardon resort dock to get some bass fishing in on our last day on Potholes. Caught a 2 pound Lar...
By: Logan77
Posted: 10/9/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After sucess bass fishing Saturday morning, started targeting crappie untill sunset. Caught some off the Mardon resort dock. Biggest was 9 inches so pretty small. Went out to the spillways and tried t...
By: Logan77
Posted: 10/9/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got this report in late but here it is. Went out to Mardon resort on Potholes for the weekend because of bad fishing on Lake WA. Had school off Friday so that's when we left. The morning after we got ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/7/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
This is a multiday report. Got to potholes on fri nite and stayed until mon afternoon. Hit the dam on sat morning with the wife and kid. Had good action for small mouth about 1lb. I dropped off th...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 10/5/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the combo bass-walleye tournament out of MarDon on October 1 and 2. I normally fish the WSBF Scholarship tournament at Banks on this weekend each year, but my usual partner had other plans. S...
By: fishinChristian
Posted: 9/22/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After the day before I had to return. Pretty much zilch! Caught several small smallmouth and a few perch, hence the 2 instead of 1, but for some reason didn't connect. It included a one inch smallmo...
By: fishinChristian
Posted: 9/21/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Short report: Went to Potholes with the dogs. They were highly entertained, as it was one fish after another. Suffice it to say the fish were mostly big, as in other recent reports. I haven't been...
By: billdance
Posted: 9/17/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Made it to Potholes to fish Thursday and Friday. It is crazy how much this lake has changed with the water level down to where it is. Thursday was productive lots of fish including a smallie around ...
By: Lord Of The Fly
Posted: 9/12/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Man, the bite at Potholes this weekend was ON! Temperatures were in the upper 90s and the sun was killer in the middle of the day. Pika206 and I headed out there and started fishing at around 6pm on F...
Posted: 9/11/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Our walleye seem to be moving into their fall feeding mode despite the near 100 degree temps the water temp has cooled to the high 60's and the bite has improved dramatically. Shad raps in perch, craw...
Posted: 9/6/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The Walleye fishing has been a little tough, throughout the weekend we would pull into a spot catch a Walleye right away and then it was multi-species bonanza time. Trout after Trout, a 25 Lb. Carp by...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 8/31/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing on Potholes is getting as hot as the weather is!
We launched out of MarDon Friday and started off with crankbaits on the face of the sand dunes. With a water temperature in the high 70's a...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/26/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
well headed out to potholes with my uncle and brother we fished for bass by the dam and i caught two 4 pound largmouth and we also went to the dunes where I shot 11 carp but only took 3 pictures
Posted: 8/17/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The past few days on Potholes have been very productive! Thursday evening boated 3 nice Walleye and lost a 30"er at the boat. Friday morning produced 4 nice big Walleye, then we went on a several hour...
By: Fishn4ever
Posted: 8/16/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Took my Fishing Buddy Scott and his two kids to Potholes. Targeting walleye from 8-12-11 to 8-14-11. Used mostly perch shad raps. Scott caught a nice 24" walleye, that was his forst ever, his daughter...
Posted: 8/11/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Sunday afternoon I head to the dunes to setup a camp for the family and friends, on the way I decide to hit a spot that has produced some nice Walleye lately. Fished 25 minutes by myself, one 26", one...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 8/10/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Have been out 3 times in the past week. Condensing the reports together to keep it simple.
The past week with the water level at 1034.6, which is 11 feet below full pool and water temps in the low ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/8/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
MarDon Resort Fishing Report “Fresh News” 8-2-11
By: Nick Barr & Mike Meseberg
Early August temperatures have been in the low to mid 90’s range. This additional heat has lit u...
Posted: 8/4/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Our fishing on Potholes this past week has been good, bad, and fantastic: all within the same morning. Some mornings it is slow as paint drying followed by mid-day doubles with Walleye to 10 lbs., Tro...
By: Boulton 20
Posted: 7/30/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was slow, managed 2 wally's and small catfish. Zero to a slight breeze, high temps and a gob of pleasure boater, had us hang it up at noon.
water temp. 75
troll speed 1.5- 2.3
FOW 6-12
pe...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 7/26/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Going to combine a couple of trips here within the past few days.
Last week I took out Tha to show him around the dunes, and we ended up with a nice 4 1/2 lb. Smallmouth up in the Winchester Arm on...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 7/25/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the local bass club two-day tournament. My partner and I brought our 9-year-old daughters along, and camped at O'Sullivan Resort campground. The weather was warm and nice, tolerable unlike mo...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 7/24/2011
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
It's been a while since I was able to post a report because I have been battling a nasty flesh eating disease MRSA infection in my foot for nearly 2 months. I would like to extend a heartfelt thankyo...