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By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/13/2002
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/13/2002
Hot Spots: 0
My dad and I met his friend over at the Potholes around 9am Friday Morning. We go over there a couple times a year, and having been fishing there since I was a kid (I'm 32 now, so its been a while). M...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/29/2002
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/29/2002
Hot Spots: 0
First ever trip to Potholes in hopes of landing those lunker trout I have read and heard about. Funny thing was all my daughter and I could catch were walleyes. Leave it to a kid to show you the po...
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Posted: 5/21/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Potholes for the weekend of the 19th and 20th, Trolled for Walleyes both days with a little Bass fishing thrown in. Caught 1 walleye on Sat. around 17". Lots of boats in the Lind Coulee area s...
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By: ripper
Posted: 5/21/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went over to P/H's Fri, Sat, Sun. Fished Lind Coulee on Fri. eve, no luck. Sat. got up at 4:30, and blazed out to crab creak. Kind of windy, had trouble with boat control, but managed 1 18" eye on a g...
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Posted: 8/27/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/27/2007
Hot Spots: 0
spent 3 days solid on potholes. crappie fishing is the best I've seen it since late 80's. smallies hit all day, just have to sort. walleye's hit my home-made double whammy's. nothing big. the walleye ...
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Posted: 9/10/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/8/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I stayed at the Mardon Resort over the weekend, hoping to catch a walleye before I move back to the rainy-side next week. I arrived around 6 pm on Friday, and planned to fish off the dock. It was not ...
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Posted: 9/17/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
hit potholes all day saturday. dusk to dawn. only caught 5 keepers, but 1 9 lb'er. so, the qualty outranked quantity. did not hear results from walleye tourney. also, caught bunches of smallmouth's al...
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Posted: 10/1/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/28/2007
Hot Spots: 0
got out on potholes early a.m. Friday. wind was howling, and then it started to dump buckets rain. caught 2 smallies is all. the fishing was so bad, we decided to not fish the dock tourney, but, went ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/14/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Spent yet another worthless day in search of Walleye up the Linde Coulee. Tried drop shotting worms, pulling worm harnesses all for nothing. Main part of Potholes is right at 51 degrees, and the Lind ...
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By: NWwoody
Posted: 5/21/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Crab Creek Sunday night, all day Monday and Tuesday morning. We were using bottom walkers and double whammys. We caught 4 walleye one was 23 inches 2 were 20 and one was 14. Fishing was slow. P...
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By: gpc
Posted: 5/27/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled Potholes for 2 days over the weekend. Saturday: trolled from 10am -3pm in Lind Coulee. It took us a little while to find the fish, but once we found them it was non stop. In about 2 hours w...
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By: ripper
Posted: 5/12/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I took the wife and Lil' Ripper over to Potholes this last weekend. Friday was nice and sunny, almost 70 deg. Went out for the evening to Lind Coulee where the guys at the Mardon store said they w...
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By: jbball50
Posted: 8/16/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/16/2008
Hot Spots: 0
We headed over to Potholes on Thursday and got to the lake around 9:30. We had trouble with the big motor and had to mess around with that for about an hour before my dad figured out the pin or screw...
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By: Giarc
Posted: 6/7/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well finally I caught my first Walleye of any size, not one but 2 within 5 minutes of each other. They were 2 lbs each and measured app. 21 inches. In addition we nailed 3 large small mouth bass. F...
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By: Giarc
Posted: 6/7/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
OK round two this time I uploaded the photos. Really it was a great time on Potholes.
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/22/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/22/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My friend Gary and I just spent 3 days fishing for walleyes on Potholes. I would love to report that we had a great trip and caught lots of fish. Unfortunatly the fishing was pretty tough. We fi...
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Posted: 7/1/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/28/2009
Hot Spots: 0
fished friday and saturday without a bite. was n ot going home skunked again stayed till monday. sunday we finally found them and caught 8. one 24" and 2 @ 23" the smallest was 15"
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/4/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/28/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Date(s): 6/26-28/09 Conditions: Calm and Sunny Wind: Variable 3-10mph Ambient Temp: 85F Water Temp.:72F Moon Phase: 32% waxing Location Fished: Winchester Wasteway Channels, Face of Dunes, C...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/5/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/3/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I remember now why I quit fishing in lakes that allow jetskis. There must be some thing about riding one that allows the rider to become rude and uncaring, after about 9:30 they ruined the fishing for...
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Posted: 7/20/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished potholes from 29jun - 03 july. Mostly went after walley with bottom walkers with worms on a walley rig. Got a 29" 6.5 lb on a red walley rig with worm north of the state park in 35' of water....
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By: gpc
Posted: 7/21/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled back in lind coulee from 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm friday. It was really slow for us. We missed a few hits on worm harneses, but that was it. Marked A LOT of fish 38' down in 50' of water. Also tri...
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Posted: 1/18/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to try some winter walleye from the mardon dock got there saturday morning and left monday morning. Fished from the dock, it was ice free due to harbor de-icers most of the lake was still iced o...
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Posted: 2/18/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Wanapum Dam to try for Walleye. The dam had completely shut off all flow and the river below the dam had dropped about 4 feet, too much to launch the 14 foot boat. So went to Potholes to try...
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Posted: 3/15/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started out fishing Lind Coulee arm of O'sullivan Dam. Took a little bit to find some fish. Water temp was around 45 degrees. Finally starting marking fish by the island most were lying in the 17-20 f...
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By: Yakivegas
Posted: 3/22/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished about 3 hours in the morning up Lind Coulee.We pulled worm harnesses on bottom walkers in about 30-35 ft of water.Got worm stripped on the first hit,caught and released a small walleys on the s...
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