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By: fishinChristian
Posted: 5/24/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Almost 5 hours of fishing paradise! Took about half an hour to catch the first one, but from then on non-stop. Too bad the ratings only go to 5! 46 largemouth (no, not a typo), 6 smallmouth, no inc...
By: Yakivegas
Posted: 5/24/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I wanted to try out my new powerdrive bow mount, but all my fishing buddies had honey do lists so I headed out to the Linde Coulee side by myself to try for some walleye for the deep fryer.Nothing lik...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/23/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/23/2011
Hot Spots: 3
Aaron and I spent the day fishing with guide Shelby Ross on the Potholes. The fishing was consistant, not on fire but we seemed to be getting bit and catching fish throughout the day. Shelby started u...
By: gunnar
Posted: 5/23/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Potholes on the 20th - 22nd. Fishing was GREAT! The bite was on, especially on day two. We started out on day one fishing in the dunes targeting pre-spawn fish, and struggled a little bit. I go...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 5/22/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
These are the slab crappie pictures of our slabs from my previous weekend Potholes report.These fish fell to 2" micro minnows on watermelon/ silver (baby bass) jigheads with my custom baby bass forage...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 5/22/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I love this time of year! Today was one of the best trips in recent memory because my good buddy Joe Cortez of Sunnyside caught the biggest bass of his life AND crappie too. We both nailed some monste...
By: Skeeterpilot
Posted: 5/18/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Headed up the west arm into the shallows in the afternoon/early evening when the rain finally quit and targeted the LM. Our friends used swim sencos and rib worms while we opted for grubs and a Swee...
By: fishinChristian
Posted: 5/18/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Quick trip, quick report: Jigs outdid topwater by a little, even though I spent more time fishing topwater. Dark jigs with trailer, floater/divers. Single pontoon, brush. No pix this time.
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By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 5/15/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out after Smallmouth on a beautiful Friday.
Throwing Yamamoto Double Tail Hula Grub jigs in brown on a crunchtime football head and Rapala X-Rap jerkabaits in walleye fry colors around the ro...
By: fishinChristian
Posted: 5/13/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Tough day but rewarding. Used plastics and topwater, jigs and deep divers. All caught one or two, with plastics in the lead, natural colors. Most pretty good size. Felt like I had fished a tournam...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 5/13/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
5-8-11 Took a buddy of mine and bass fishing rookie from work over to the Potholes Reservoir for a couple days of fishing. Water temps when we arrived at 10am were in the low to mid 50's, we tried aro...
By: BillMcMurry
Posted: 5/5/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
sorry this is so late ya'll, having troubles with pictures. but anyway, went to potholes on the first. started out for some smallies by the damn but no luck, so my dad and I headed up into winchester....
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 5/5/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I took out Hal and his Brother for the day on Potholes Reservoir.
We launched out of MarDon Resort and began fishing for smallmouth right away. The water was still fairly cool on the main lake wit...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 4/21/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Potholes Open Day 2:
Launched at 6AM and weigh in was at 11:30AM.
Sitting in 17th, 14lbs. behind the lead sack of 29lbs. brought in the first day we decided to go for consistency and go for Smal...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 4/21/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Day 1 of the Potholes Open:
Jon Werner & I fished the 32nd Annual Potholes Open.
The day started out launching at 9:30AM and we decided to try and get our limit of smallmouth before we run to th...
By: Naferious
Posted: 4/15/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Caught 2 18" rainbows and a 3' 7lb catfish over night, used worm floating off bottom. with a sliding weight.
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 4/11/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out again on Sunday at Potholes to pre-fish for the Open tournament next weekend.
Primarly searched out new water and ran around the lake hitting areas I have never fished before, so was not e...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 4/11/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
First "EWU Fishing Club Fish-In" and first guided bass fishing trip of the year.
Got to the lake at 6:30am and got all 8 students who showed up for the fish-in situated, then got out on the water.
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By: gonecrazy
Posted: 4/10/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Made first trip of year to potholes. We didnt seem to get into the fish. We worked all day for 4 fish. One ended up being 19" but the others were less than 14". We did try blade baits for a while but ...
By: nx7k
Posted: 4/9/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Caught fish in Linn Coulee on gravel points in about 10 to 15 ft of water. Fishing was slow due to high winds and cold temps. This was my first trip to Potholes but definintely a come back to place ...
By: kjtemp
Posted: 4/6/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the potholes from march 25th to the 30th up in the lind coulee area. From the lind coulee boat launch we went right with the boat for about 5 mins and fished off the first sandy bluff on the r...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 4/4/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out for the first time on Potholes this year.
The day started around 8am with it being nice & sunny, which held throughout most of the day. A light wind made it a bit chilly though.
We went...
By: lonnie197272
Posted: 3/7/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit potholes about noon, the weather was great to start, sun was out just beautiful, but didnt last long once the clouds rolled in it got cold. Water temp was 36 degress targeted walleye using blade b...
By: JonLaura08
Posted: 2/27/2011
Species:
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the night at Potholes and tried fishing all day & night. Nothing. Still alot of ice around the edges and some spots further out had large amounts too. Couldn't get our boat in the water since th...
By: deltadog
Posted: 2/22/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Same story as before....Fished Lind Coulee Arm, and Medicare for not so much as a bump. I actually did see one small perch follow my bait in on one retrieve but thats it. So much for my devoid of life...