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Posted: 7/3/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
On the water around 7:15. Cloudy and windy to start out. Worked a square bill drifting down the northern end of the lake. Missed a good bite, then got towards the weed line and pulled out the drop ...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 7/2/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/2/2017
Hot Spots: 3
I've had some great days fishing on Lake Goodwin, but this might have been my best morning there as far as action and fish quality. I was at the gate right as the ranger opened it up to the launch. By...
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Posted: 7/1/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/28/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Average day for small fish. Added my 11 yr old grandson to the mix today, so three of us flayling away with our rods! We all caught fish up to about 15"--mostly smaller. Somehow managed to get home wi...
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Posted: 6/19/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Pulled into Goodwin right at 7:00AM just after they opened the gates. Gear down in the fog by 7:30. Not much going today. We managed 4 dinks on tubes and hula grubs, but couldn't find any decent fish....
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By: JoshH
Posted: 6/18/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/18/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Always have to fish Father's Day, regardless of the weather. Today was much uglier weather wise than what had even been predicted yesterday. Pretty steady drizzle in the morning with a little bit of w...
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Posted: 5/31/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/31/2017
Hot Spots: 0
After a couple pretty poor trips for LMB at local lakes, I decided to head back to Goodwin to see what was up with the Smallies. My son and I hit the water at about 8 AM and went to the usual spots. I...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 5/28/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/28/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Really a maybe 3 star day, but I will get to that in a moment. I got on the water just after 7am and began my troll. I wanted to get an early start to beat the Memorial Day Weekend crowd, and more par...
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Posted: 5/19/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful day on the lake! Sunny and basically calm for several hours, then just a slight breeze that rotated 360 degrees around the compass until we left. Didn't catch many fish, but managed a couple...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 5/14/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/14/2017
Hot Spots: 1
I was going to get up and head out to Lake Stevens, but the recent poor fishing reports there (guides are struggling) coupled with the weather uncertainty, I made an executive decision at 3am when the...
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Posted: 5/10/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Dropped the son's vehicle at the shop for what was supposed to be a few hour check-up and we headed over to Goodwin to kill some time. On the water by about 9:00AM. Figuring that the SMB were getting ...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 5/7/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/7/2017
Hot Spots: 0
After spending the past 3 weekends Kokanee fishing, I just couldn't see myself getting up at 3am again, so instead I decided to hit up my home lake this morning I ran 2 lines today. One rod with 1/...
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Posted: 4/11/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/11/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got out to Goodwin for the first time this year. Wx was sunny, but a little windy. We put in about 5 hours trying different areas and techniques and ended up with two small Smallies--one on a hula gru...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 4/3/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/2/2017
Hot Spots: 1
On Saturday I went out to Roesiger, fished in the absolute poring down rain, and got my butt handed to me. So Sunday I decided I needed to feel a little better about myself and went back out to Goodwi...
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By: TrueJamo
Posted: 4/1/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Opening day of new season, new fisherman myself but I've always wanted to go out and get into it. Took my daughter and wife and met my dad at the north park of Lake Goodwin. Don't have a boat so it wa...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 3/26/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/26/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Pretty much a repeat day of last Sunday, except it rained most of the morning today. After playing around with what was in last weeks fish's stomach, I went with an Olive Woolly Bugger instead today. ...
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Posted: 3/21/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/21/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Took a couple of casts off my dock just to see if anything would cooperate. Yamamoto double tail skirted grub on a 3/8 oz jig head. Only one hit but it stuck. No scale but it was about 15 or 16 inc...
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Posted: 3/19/2017
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake around 2 pm on this sunny Sunday. About 8 trucks and trailers in the parking lot. Stuck to the southern end of the lake. Threw jerk baits, light jigs, Carolina rig, wacky, and drop sho...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 3/19/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/19/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Got my lines in the water about 8am. First 30 minutes landed 2 11-12 inch rainbows. Released both and continued on my way. Both caught at 20 feet on the downrigger. Got a couple more on in the next fe...
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Posted: 11/18/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/18/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Nada. Only had a short period to fish today, but headed to Goodwin since the wx was good. We concentrated on a couple areas that usually produce a bite or two and hit them with our usual weapons of ch...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 11/6/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/6/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Woke up, hooked up the Hobie to the Jeep and headed down the road. Next stop, Lake Roesiger...... except as I started getting towards the turn I normally take to Goodwin, I noticed the time. I was a l...
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Posted: 10/31/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/28/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We launched at Wenberg Park at about 1:00PM. An absolutely perfect Fall day on Lake Goodwin! Partly cloudy with occasional sun, leaves turning on the trees around the lake and NO WIND! The fishing lef...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 10/23/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/23/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Arrived at the lake about 7:30 this morning. Started unloading the Jeep and noticed that I forgot to load the downrigger. Crap! Decided to head back home, pick up the downrigger, and head back. Ugg, g...
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Posted: 10/7/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Nothin' worked today. Wind came up quite a bit, but we were still able to fish the areas we wanted to...we just couldn't make anything work. Spent 3-4 hours trying all our standbys, plus a few more te...
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By: JoshH
Posted: 10/6/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/6/2016
Hot Spots: 1
With the temps dropping, decided to see if the trout would bite on the troll yet. Arrived about 8am, only 1 other boat bass fishing on the lake. Started off with a size 6 green Doc Spratley on the dow...
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Posted: 9/17/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/15/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Pretty tough day, but with the first fish within 10 minutes right at 3.35#, and the last fish in the last 10 minutes at 2.88# it was a pretty good day! Only one dink caught between those too. The bigg...
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