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By: Big Smooth
Posted: 5/24/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Hit up Lin coolie with the boys and had to travel all the way up into the channel. But I did land three walleye to add to our Moses lake haul from the day before. Thomas and I had a decent morning wit...
By: aortbahn
Posted: 7/18/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/15/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Friday the 14th with not a walleye to be found all day and seemed all over the lake. Saturday started like it was going to be a better day...in the first 10 mins of being on the water landed a...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 7/30/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/22/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the potholes last weekend and didn't have a lot of success, but we did land two in the low 20's. The key was getting in the weeds and away from the bullheads. We went through a ton of worms in ...
By: Fisheries24
Posted: 9/25/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/25/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Lots of company at potholes but I saw few fish caught. I give the day 5 stars for species diversity. Caught several decent crappie, a nice bluegill, several largemouth bass and one smallish walleye.
By: WheresDaFish
Posted: 10/1/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/30/2017
Hot Spots: 0
My first time fishing potholes. Heck, it was my first time fishing walleye in almost 20 years! Grew up in ND and that's the main game back there. Along with perch, like and everything else spiny. An...
By: Walleye Be Damn
Posted: 10/2/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Potholes for the first time in months. Tried trolling slow death, flicker shads, spinners, etc., but the walleye weren't having any of it. I did manage to catch a trout, blue gills, crappie, an...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 10/3/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/3/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Al and I launched at Mardon's this morning and headed to the humps south of the dunes. We started with bottom bouncers and slow death rigs and initially got a couple of bullheads. We switched to #9 ...
By: erick442
Posted: 11/27/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/25/2017
Hot Spots: 0
So this report covers from the 23rd to the 25th. So over the past few years the family has made camping over Thanksgiving kind of a tradition. This year after looking over the weather reports we set...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 1/8/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/8/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Al was able to rejoin the trio today after getting his medical release. We decided to stay closer to home and headed to Potholes in search of Walleyes. Launched at MarDon and headed to the humps and...
By: Fishrader
Posted: 3/25/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/24/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Can you say windy and cold cold
By: hlindsay
Posted: 6/10/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/5/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This is for Monday thru Wednesday morning. We fished Lynn Coulee and medicare in the morning and got nothing. Went into Crab Creek in the afternoon and got one small bass, lost a walleye and got one w...
By: niceshot
Posted: 6/12/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/10/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This is the slowest I have seen this lake in years. Talked to a lot of guys that are normally on the fish and they say the same thing. I hope it's just a phase but it's SLOW to say the least.
By: Walleye Be Damn
Posted: 6/12/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Potholes launching at the state park. We headed to the crab creek area fishing the “humps” and the only thing we caught was about a million-little green aphid looking bugs that were swarming l...
By: slabmaster
Posted: 6/14/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/11/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for this past sunday. Will keep this short and simple. fished till about 2pm from boat and off Mar Don dock. Hard work produced one Walleye , one channel, and four 11-12" Crappie. After...
By: Gbergman
Posted: 6/29/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
The now 4th annual fishing trip for my two sons and I has now come and gone. We spent 6 days of dedicated fishing searching for the sometimes elusive Potholes Walleyes. We only fish the lake for one t...
By: nccuda
Posted: 4/30/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/21/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for several hours left of Potholes State Park. No luck, windy at times. Neighbor in site next to me said he caught 5 walleye near Lind
Coulee.
By: Justafisherman
Posted: 5/20/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/19/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Put in about 8 am at Mardon. Fished the mouth of crab creek for about 2 hrs and got one perch. Moved over to Winchester and found 20' of water and started trolling, with in an hour we had 6 nice walle...
By: Waderjs
Posted: 5/22/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/21/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing for 3 days on Potholes with my recently retired brother. Saturday and Sunday, the fishing was tough for us (would rate those days a 2) with 2-3 walleye and a couple trout per day, but we ...
By: livid4fish
Posted: 6/3/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2018
Hot Spots: 0
It's always great to get out even though there was two tournaments going on and a lot of boat noise. Can't be to stealthy when everybody's ripping around. But everybody is entitled to have fun! Anyway...
Posted: 6/28/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/28/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Our walleye bite on potholes has been ok to unbelievable depending on the day for the last 2 weeks. If the breeze stops the trout have kept us entertained with lots of them 3-5lbs. The key to qualit...
By: tvh1882
Posted: 7/5/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We fished Potholes 8/2-8/3 targeting the elusive walleye. Sunday afternoon was a complete bust fishing the Crab Creek area. No fish for 5 hours with 3 lines in the water. Monday morning we decided to ...
By: wmaxwell48
Posted: 9/25/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/21/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Pothole Reservoir September 18 -22 2018.
We got to go fishing at Potholes this year at a reasonably good time. It may be the only trip I get this year. I, Susan and Phil (Deckhand) Dickson headed...
By: MSLJDE6
Posted: 10/15/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/10/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished October 10-13 at Potholes. Trolled slow death rigs out at the humps all of the days and between 3 of us caught about 10 walleye each day as well as a few nice sized perch, bluegill, largemou...
By: Walleye Be Damn
Posted: 10/16/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/12/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Well we hit potholes at 9 launching at the state park, the water is very low so be careful. We headed to the crab creek area to try our luck. We threw out flicker shads, slow death hook, homemade spin...
By: CCTMark
Posted: 10/16/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Headed over to Potholes on Sunday with my buddy Jay. He launched me at 0730 and we motored over to the humps by the dunes. We found a couple that topped out at 12 FOW and threw blade baits and jigs. W...
