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By: bassplayer17
Posted: 6/3/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/2/2012
Hot Spots: 0
fished the evening bite that did'nt happen managed to get 2 dinks very windy with showers threw everything at em
By: tHrilleR
Posted: 8/15/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/13/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake about 8, meant to be there earlier but slept in a bit... Whoops. Started lookin' for ditch pickles with a deep crank, bull doggin' it through the shallow rocks. 'Bout the third cast a mon...
By: tHrilleR
Posted: 9/3/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hitched up the boat after work to meet up with a buddy already on the lake. Decided to make a couple casts before I found him on the lake. Turns out that's all I needed. Second cast with a deep crank,...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 4/17/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Nothing like some smallies to get the skunk out of the boat! Too bad I could only find 2. The pic fish went 2.2lbs and was the biggest unfortunately. Got that one skipping shallow docks with a Yamamot...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 4/23/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Pretty slow and no pics cause I lost one at the boat and the other nicer one made one last run and my line broke, I hate it when that happens! Must have had a nick from the rocks?.
The only two sma...
By: oneshot
Posted: 6/24/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Finally put some plans in to action and headed out to fish with Quadfather yesterday.. we have been chatting for a couple years but never connected until now. another wa.lakes.com hookup success.. :)...
By: gljorgy1962
Posted: 9/15/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/15/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Started out before sunup this morning...lucky enough to live on the lake so I don't have to wait for the launch to open. Foggy and cool with the surface temp at about 70. Went to my secret rock pile...
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 11/14/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/13/2013
Hot Spots: 0
First a qualifier: I'm not much of a bass fisherman, so take all this info with a grain (or pound) of salt! That said...did some research on cold water smallmouth fishing and decided to hit Lake Goodw...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 5/18/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/13/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I was hoping I would find this lake free of spawners but that wasn't the case. Although they were just starting to bed up it was still more than possible to catch them without ever touching a bed! Fis...
By: brojay
Posted: 6/8/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
First time to Goodwin and it was a beautiful day.Launched from Wenberg State Park $7.00 park fee to get in.Started fishing at 7:00 a.m. and quit at 3:00 p.m.Fished the north end of the lake until noon...
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 6/17/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/17/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Well, technically the rating should only be a 2, but since the fish I caught was a PB Smallmouth at 3.35# it was well worth a 3 to me! Hit Lake Goodwin about 5:30pm and worked our way around the lake....
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 10/17/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Had a free afternoon and some sunshine so decided to give Goodwin a try for some SMB. Didn't quite work out the way I wanted. The wind picked up so it was very tough to drift over rocky points, and ar...
By: Falconeitti
Posted: 4/15/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Great day on the lake. Tried everything in the boat with no luck. They should have been there.
Will get them next time. First report, hope the next one is a little more exciting.
By: 8theB8
Posted: 4/20/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/20/2015
Hot Spots: 3
I was hoping to beat the spawn on this lake but I was too late :( Fish are definitely bedding up, some settled, some still spawning and some uncommitted, we tried fishing out off of the spawning areas...
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 7/17/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/17/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Good day today. Hit the lake at 7:15 AM and started near the ramp tossing cranks, dropshot and tubes. Nothing doing, so trolled cranks toward the North end of the lake. We hit several spots, picked up...
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 8/3/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well, today was a "1" for me, but a 4+ for my son. He ended up with double digits with a 3.1# SMB to top off his day. Big fish was caught on a football head jig with a craw trailer. The small ones wer...
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 11/20/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Waited until 8 AM to head over to Goodwin to get a read on the weather and let the ice melt off the boat cover! The plan was to target SMB, using the fishfinder to search for fish holding deeper in th...
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 1/18/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/18/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a couple hours at Goodwin this morning. First thing I noticed is that Wenberg Park raised the launch fee from $7 to $10. Didn't mark any fish and didn't get any action at all. Wx was pretty goo...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 4/18/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/18/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Well, I was hoping to hit this lake before the smallmouth got to far along in their spawn and I was close. Water temps I found were 59-62*. The fish are definitely bedding up and while that's a bummer...
By: sumbeech66
Posted: 7/2/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
First time at Goodwin.
Got there about 5pm. Lots of boats and water sports going on plus some wind, made it interesting to maneuver the little boat around. Didn't catch anything of great size but...
By: dutchman2858
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...
By: dutchman2858
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...
By: dutchman2858
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...
By: dutchman2858
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...
By: gljorgy1962
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...
