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Posted: 4/7/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to try Goodwin after being blown off Big lake this morning! Goodwin has a couple coves you can seek a little shelter in, so, after paying too much to launch ha ha, we headed Northwest into the...
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Posted: 4/11/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Water temps were 49.5 to 52.5 degrees! I missed three solid fish, one on a crawdad colored crankbait, hooked him just long enough to wish I caught him.....BIG!! Had one dart up under my jig right b...
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Posted: 5/3/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Managed six smallies in five hours....largest was 3lbs even, with a fat old belly!! Water temps were in the low 50's. If you choose to fish here for smallmouth, just keep switching up techniques, the ...
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By: oahe80
Posted: 6/1/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/7/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Goodwin for my second time fishing. Beautiful sunny afternoon but the fishing was pretty slow. I tried grubs, senkos, and crankbaits. I only got one bite but I hooked it and landed a ver...
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By: vardy
Posted: 4/29/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/29/2007
Hot Spots: 0
We began trolling at the far northern part of the lake which is where I reside at 5:45pm. There are very few fish populating the north western section of this lake besides the occasional largemouth h...
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Posted: 6/19/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/18/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Headed to Goodwin right after work. It was my first time fishing the lake. We launched from Wenberg park, and started fishing the cove immediately north of the park. The wind was too strong for our...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/13/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got the boat out this morning to try for some smallies, got this nice one about an hour after arriving and got 5 other small ones, and a perch. figure the big one would go about 3 1/2. Been having tr...
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Posted: 8/27/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Just found this web site called www.bountyfishing.com and well it is pretty cool. Anyway check it out if you are wanting a little more excitement while fishing. As a member of BF.com you pay $20 a wee...
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Posted: 8/30/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake about 6:45am very few boats on the water. Decided to head to the south end and worked the 15-20 ft range hitting all the rock piles I could find. Caught 4 nice smallies. Not sure on weigh...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/9/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water around 7am at the state park. Launched my kayak and started working the west side but due to the bright sun on the water, I peddled back to the shady east shoreline. I wasn't having...
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Posted: 9/12/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake right at about 8am. 2 other boats in the water but other than that all was good. Water was calm and sun was just heading up. Headed straight for the west side of the lake and fished in...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/5/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water at 7 am but the fog was too thick for me to try venturing away from shore on my first time at lake Goodwin. I worked the shallow shore line with a Sinko with no luck until the fog clear...
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Posted: 3/15/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at Wenberg Park around 8:15 am with fellow angler LowVW. Light snow off and on for a while, and then some flurries. We were trying to implement some Lake Washington techniques at Goodwin, b...
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By: lowvw
Posted: 3/16/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Launched into the snowstorm at about 8 am. Worked deep cranks and plastics from 15-30ft. Only marked a few fish. Water temp right at 40. No hits, nothing. Heavy snow, then sleet, then rain and when t...
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Posted: 7/16/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Me and a friend took out my 12' and launched at Wenberg. We immediately went across the water to where we landed fish the last time. It was a little windy, but we used that to push us South down the...
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By: fishnazzi
Posted: 4/11/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well it was very windy. caught 3 fish- 3.8lb 3.12lb and 5.4lb Fished splitshot senkos and cranks. Water temp 49.4 all fish came out of 12-14'. Saw one other boat and the wind had them beat. Didn't rea...
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By: buzzbait
Posted: 4/21/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Was hoping it had warmed up enough to finally try some bass fishing and glad i did.I saw about 5-7 real nice smallies in the shallows.And Caught a couple of TOADS on back to back cast off the same roc...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 4/22/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/22/2009
Hot Spots: 3
Only had a short window of opportunity to fish this morning/afternoon but decided to make the run to Goodwin to see if I couldn't get in on some of the smallmouth action?! I launched at 10:45am and ha...
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By: lowvw
Posted: 4/27/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to hit goodwin all day, but as we got to the launch we watched 8 boats take off. Must have been a club tournery. Needless to say the lake got hit real hard, so fishing could have been better. ...
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Posted: 4/27/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Launched Wenberg around 7am only to find that 8-10 other bass boats had launched for some tournament. Those guys were pretty inconsiderate. They race from one spot to the next, and dont give a damn ...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 5/3/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Not bad on Goodwin tonight. Got off work early, and decided to check the smallie action. I started with my crankbaits, and switched to jigs and grubs, nothing. I then got up on the flats I was fishing...
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By: buzzbait
Posted: 5/7/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Sightfishing on goodwin today, well bedfishing. Toto windy to see. I would locate a bed, then drift off and fish it from a distance. Caught 12 today between 2 1/2 and 5 lbs. Fished 4 hours. Monday i w...
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Posted: 5/11/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake about 7am. There were already about 15 boats. Weather was great. No clouds, sun was up and no wind. Water temp about 56 to start then about 59 at Noon. Started cruising shallows looking f...
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By: buzzbait
Posted: 5/13/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Goodwin today.Water was stained and it was windy.I couldn't sight fish so i just drop-shotted and used a shakeyhead worm. I caught 8 bass today with the biggest going 4.8lbs.Used Zoom shak...
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By: trimcat
Posted: 5/18/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/17/2009
Hot Spots: 1
Went to Goodwin Sunday afternoon to try for some smallies. Started out fishing the shoreline on the Northeast side was thowing jerk and crankbaits. No luck with those so I thought I would try for trou...
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