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By: dutchman2858
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...
By: dutchman2858
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 ...
By: dutchman2858
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...
By: dutchman2858
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...
By: barbarossa13
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 ...
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...
By: dutchman2858
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, ...
By: dutchman2858
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....
By: dutchman2858
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...
By: barbarossa13
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...
By: dutchman2858
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...
By: gljorgy1962
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...
By: gljorgy1962
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...
By: Bonesaw Mugraw
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
By: Freshwater206
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...
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...
By: gljorgy1962
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”...
By: Tom6001pnwbasser
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.
By: Tom6001pnwbasser
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.
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...
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...
By: novicefisher404
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...
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'...
By: fisherman92
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,...
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...
