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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...
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...
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...
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...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/10/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/9/2011
Hot Spots: 1
Had a great time fishing with guide Shelby Ross of Ross Outdoor Adventures (a guide sponsor on this site, 509.750.7763 ). Shelby took Aaron and myself out to some of the backwater dunes that are only ...
Posted: 10/24/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Our fall walleye bite is on! Still time to get a great trip in before the weather turns! Fished Wednesday and boated 8 to 25". The fish are hanging on breaks and the water seems to have cooled enough ...
By: woodfish24
Posted: 10/26/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Oh boy, the resevoir is turning over. If you are going, be prepared to have green slime everywhere including loading up on your reels. You won't have to watch your line because you will see the line t...
By: Troop of Three
Posted: 11/6/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
A buddy and I fished rainbows in the Lind Coulee arm of Potholes on November 4. The fishing was poor so after 4 hours of getting nipped by the wind we left the lake. I really got into the rainbows i...
By: fishdoc
Posted: 11/6/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Loaded up the family today and headed to Potholes for a little trolling. I was hoping for a really good trout bite, but things were a little slow. My three year old reeled in one, my two year old re...
By: Yakivegas
Posted: 11/7/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Grabbed a buddy from work and made our way to Medicare beach for a little bank fishing.The last couple of years I have been doing better from the bank than from my boat this time of year.The set up is...
By: Yakivegas
Posted: 11/28/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Tossed chartreause green PB out off medicare about 8am.It no sooner hit the water probably not even reaching the bottom yet and it was fish on.I was thinking allright this is going to be a good day.I ...
Posted: 3/7/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out Saturday morning even though the weather forcast called for high winds. Water temp was 37*. Started blade baiting humps and drop offs that are holding walleye. Most of the fish are on break...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/12/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well.. I'd have to say that saturday was the best day of trout fishing I have ever experienced. We fished at Mar Don Resort from 10:30 am to 4 pm, and our group of four managed to land 14 trout! All f...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/18/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hadn't been to potholes reservoir for a couple of years so thought I would go get the boat in the water but all the ramps now have signs saying you need to pay $10 to use the launches.... I went to ...
By: Boulton 21
Posted: 4/8/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
This trip was really to try the new I-pilot, but we fished, while playing with this new toy.
Water temp 45-47
Depth 9-15
Troll speed .4-1.2
Method Slow death- Smile blades- crawlers
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