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By: Gbergman
Posted: 6/8/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Day 1: We ventured out on our annual spring potholes trip for my two boys and I from the 2nd thru the 6th of June. Our trip was going to be a little different this year as the in-laws invited themselv...
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Posted: 6/16/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/15/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We went out to Potholes for a couple of hours on Wednesday morning and hit the water about 8:00 launching from the State Park. We headed up to Crab Creek and started in 8-20 FOW with no luck. We moved...
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By: kcadwal
Posted: 9/22/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/22/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Lunched at the State Park about 8:30. Fished the area NW of the park at the start of the dunes. Action began almost immediately. Had two fish in the boat by 9:30, also missed two. Then thing slowed...
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Posted: 9/26/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/26/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Put in at 10:30 and left at 2:30. We used a yellow, purple and purple and pink wedding rings. Trolled around 1.5 - 1.8 mph. We caught fish consistantly for about two hours every time we trolled over a...
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Posted: 9/28/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing at about 7:00 to our usual hunting grounds and pulled out 14 walleye and 2 smallmouth. We released all fish except the two in the picture. These hogs were 25" and 23". Trolling with plane...
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By: Jose Diaz
Posted: 9/30/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/30/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Watched a lot of guys trolling at the potholes today. I kept seeing nice schools on the sonar along medicare beach, but couldn't get any to bite trolling. Decided to switch to jigging raps, Vertically...
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Posted: 5/2/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing for walleye Sunday AM in Lind Coulee off Potholes trolling a worm rig behind a bottom bouncer. Only caught one small walleye but I landed a 26 inch burbot in about 20-30 feet of water. ...
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Posted: 5/3/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2016
Hot Spots: 3
It's Tuesday and I have had a day to recoup from the Potholes. We were out Friday PM through Sunday AM. In that time we had 6 fish in the boat. 1 was released. The others are dinner. On board were Wi...
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Posted: 7/13/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Lind coulee arm of the main lake. Got a few small walleye one 6+ pounder CV and one huge crappie. Smile blade slow death in chartreuse and prism blade. Fishing in around 45' of water huggin...
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Posted: 9/6/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Took the day off to beat the holiday crowd and tried my luck on Potholes. I put in at the State Park and headed to Crab Creek area. Tried trolling the usual walleye gear over the humps for 4 hours and...
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By: C-money
Posted: 9/6/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Slow day on the Potholes. Was sure a great weather day though. Had 5 bites , landed two dandy largemouths, and a perch. Had a crushing hit that did not stay hooked, followed later by a dandy aerobatic...
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Posted: 9/11/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished all day for walleye and/or perch. Caught 7 fish all day, two big largemouth bass, 2 small perch and 3 catfish. Very slow day. Tried trolling worm harnesses and still fishing with worms. Vood da...
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Posted: 9/26/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/25/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Well I thought I would give the Potholes a try and found the fishing is still just as bad as it was a few weeks ago. I focused on the Medicare Beach area. I managed to catch a very small crappie, bass...
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By: DavidA
Posted: 9/28/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/23/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Finally the date for our first fall fishing weekend arrived. Down to only 4 of us (3 boats) from an initial 6 or 7 from Kitsap County, Thom and I headed to Potholes Reservoir, while Tony and Linda hea...
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By: Yakivegas
Posted: 10/13/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/12/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Since I had a discovery pass.I decided to put in to use with the 7 buck launch fee,and use the state park launch since its much deeper than the rest.Besides Its a straight shot out to the dunes from t...
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By: CCTMark
Posted: 10/24/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/22/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Being it is almost the end of October I decided to give Potholes a try even though the reports have been disheartening. Launched from the DNR launch into a foggy mess and slowly motored over to perch ...
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Posted: 10/24/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/22/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Gave Potholes a whirl on Saturday morning at 07:00 for some walleye action, only there was no action, we got diddly squat. Started off from the State Park and headed up to the crab creek area through ...
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By: kcadwal
Posted: 11/10/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/26/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Where have all the walleye gone ? Fished Potholes today weather was part overcast clearing by mid-day. Water temp at transducer was mid 50's. Got on the water about 7:30 AM and fished the area Nor...
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Posted: 11/23/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/22/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the day looking for the elusive walleye only to remain skunked. Tried the usual spots in Crab Creek and Winchester area slow trolling worm harnesses and slow death. Tried blade baiting and some ...
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By: fish1946
Posted: 11/23/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/21/2016
Hot Spots: 3
FOGGY ALL DAY FISHED MEDICARE BEACH AND THE EAST END OF THE DUNES. TROLLED WORMS SMILEY BLADES AND SLOWDEATH HOOKS, ALSO FLICKER SHAD AND RAPALAS. NO FISH AT ALL
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By: BenCoal
Posted: 3/17/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/17/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at around 8am at Lind Coulee. The water in Lind Coulee was very cloudy, so dirty I couldnt see the prop of my motor under the water. We tried trolling worm harnesses and jigging blade baits ...
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Posted: 3/27/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/26/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I hit Potholes this weekend and the only thing I caught was a cold. There were about 2 dozen walleye boats out and about and I didn’t see anybody catch anything and spoke to 4 boats and they said they...
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By: hlindsay
Posted: 4/29/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/25/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Frenchman's and Linn Coulee on Tue morning with out a hit. Wind on Wednesday did not get out. tried crab creek on Thursday morning with no luck. Fished with bottom bouncers and worm rig or slo...
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Posted: 5/17/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/14/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Went camping at potholes for the weekend. We headed out the first day to Crab Creek, but didn't get anything. Headed to the rock pile, no bites. After a few hours of nothing, we headed in. Apparently,...
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Posted: 5/17/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/17/2017
Hot Spots: 0
We popped over last weekend and have been camping in the tt and a 12' Porta Bote. Rained Monday but Tuesday I braved occaional showers and wind to fish for Walleye. Only had one good hookup but lost t...
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