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Posted: 10/30/2022
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/16/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Several fish in the 1.5-2.5lb range, a couple off of top water lures.
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Posted: 10/30/2022
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/10/2022
Hot Spots: 0
My personal best Smallie on a drop shot off the Wenberg County Park dock. About 4lbs, 20.5" fish. It was the only fish I landed that day, but worthwhile trip.
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By: JoshH
Posted: 6/20/2022
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/20/2022
Hot Spots: 1
Decided I just couldn't do a 3am wake up to chase kokanee, so instead decided to meet my brother at Lake Goodwin and do a little trout fishing. The fish in Goodwin are usually fat, healthy, and fun. T...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 9/25/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/25/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Decided my freezer has enough coho and pinks to last all winter, and wanted to see what one of my favorite fisheries was looking like, fall trout fishing. Something about the cool mornings and the rel...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 6/20/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/20/2021
Hot Spots: 1
Met my brother at the launch at 7am and set out for a Father's Day outing. Goodwin can be fickle, but was hoping to get off the water before the fleet of water hooligans arrived and turned the lake in...
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Posted: 4/15/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/15/2021
Hot Spots: 0
2 bites but no fish in the boat. Launched my kayak from lake Goodwin community park @ 7 am. Started trolling woolie buggers 16 inches behind silver dodgers @ 1.5 - 1.7 mph. Over the next 3 hours I...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 4/12/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/11/2021
Hot Spots: 1
Goodwin used to get planted with 5k rainbows in December/January, 20-30k each of cutthroat and rainbow fry June - October, and another plant of 18k rainbows in October. For some reason about 3 years a...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 3/19/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/15/2020
Hot Spots: 0
First time on Goodwin for 2020. The lake has always been tough, but even more so since the stocking in the fall was cut off 2 years ago. 18,000 fish that used to get put in are now not. While it wa...
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Posted: 11/14/2019
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/9/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry this isn’t a fishing report this is a stolen boat report. My 2016 Lund Rebel 1750 XS was stolen about 2:30 am 11/09/2019. It’s a very distinctive boat, dark Lund red with the name “Kingfisher”...
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By: 2feetitis
Posted: 7/28/2019
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/28/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I wish the gate would open before 7am, but we were the 3rd boat in line. We decided to fish the north part of the lake in the cove to the North East. We began fishing the docks looking for hungry bass...
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Posted: 6/3/2019
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/3/2019
Hot Spots: 0
This is a 4-star day because I landed my PB smallie, a 4.1lber, my only fish of the day. Caught on a dropshot. Had one other bite on the dropshot that I didn’t hook up. Other than that the only othe...
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Posted: 5/27/2019
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/24/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Goodwin friday night with my wife and dad and was lucky enough to get 4 good size bass. We fished on the fishing pier for about 3 hours using worm
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By: JoshH
Posted: 4/28/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/28/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I haven't hit my favorite keeper rainbow trout lake for awhile. This is a tough lake to fish. The fish are almost always completely gorged on insect life. There is so much natural feed in the lake it'...
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Posted: 3/15/2019
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/15/2019
Hot Spots: 0
My second smallie of the year is much better than the first one. Exactly the same gear as I used yesterday in fact I had the same craw on as yesterday. Carolina rigged craw fished slow over the gra...
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Posted: 3/14/2019
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/14/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I’ve been trying for smallmouth all winter and finally caught one dink and completely ignored another take because I haven’t felt a tap tap of a bass since November.... Carolina rig with a Berkeley...
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Posted: 12/15/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/15/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Called Snoho Park office and found out that the Goodwin ramp opened a week ago so my son and I headed over there this AM. On the water by 11:00AM and off about 3:00PM. We did a bunch of cruising and l...
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Posted: 6/18/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/17/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Goodwin in the afternoons on Saturday and Sunday. I put my boat in for a few weeks to give my old lake a shot. Fished for smallmouth Saturday mid day and afternoon. Tried alot if areas, depths,...
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Posted: 3/26/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/19/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Goodwin before the county shuts down the public launch for the summer. If I remember right they’re closing it May-September. When they’re done it should be a lot nicer launch though. Worked th...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 3/18/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/18/2018
Hot Spots: 1
Debated between Steven, Shoecraft, and Goodwin for this morning. Goodwin won, so that's where I headed. Started about 8am, spent a little over an hour trying to locate fish. Finally located them no...
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By: Kisutch
Posted: 1/16/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/14/2018
Hot Spots: 1
The weather was some of the best I can remember on an early January weekend, so it was time to dust off the boat, get the old outboard running and enjoy the water for the first time since September. ...
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By: cubmaster
Posted: 1/15/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We trolled lake Goodwin for 5 hours and did not have any luck. We were hoping to hook some of the 5,000 rainbows that were reported to have been stocked at this lake earlier in the week. But we had ...
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Posted: 12/3/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Decent weather though the wind picked up and it got pretty chilly. We spent some time looking for any sign of bait but nothing to be found. We worked points, deep water, flats, etc. with jigs, tubes, ...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 10/29/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/29/2017
Hot Spots: 1
I decided late notice before the Seahawks game to try and sneak a few hours in of fishing before the eternal gloom hits. Arrived at the launch late, almost 9am. By the time I had lines down it was alm...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 10/10/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/10/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Report covers 2 morning of fishing on Lake Goodwin, 10/9 and 10/10. Report is both good and bad. Good is that there is a massive chironomid hatch going on right now, and the fish are completely stuffe...
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By: Inselwind
Posted: 8/21/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Originally put in early morning on a friends boat and did some trolling for trout with nothing happening. no bites or anything. We were trying multiple lures and presentations but no downriggers. W...
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