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Posted: 6/1/2010
Species: Catfish
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The dogs & I sarted at Shiner, but it was very slow, and Hampton was no better, so we packed up (I did most of the work for some reason) and went to Potholes City... err lake. The crowd wasn't too ba...
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By: gpc
Posted: 5/30/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Lind Coule for 2 days before the Memorial day crowd showed up. Wednesday: Fished from 7:45am-3:00pm. Took us a couple hours to find fish but once we found them it was smooth sailing. We ende...
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By: sommysom
Posted: 5/19/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Says and I went on our annual trip to the Potholes Reservior this past Sunday and Monday. We wanted to target largies, but the bite wasn't quite there. However we managed to catch a handful from 1.3lb...
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By: mav186
Posted: 5/18/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Place Fished: Potholes Date(s): 5/14-16/10 Weather Conditions: Sunny and warm Wind: light and variable Ambient Temp: low 80’s Water Temp.: 62.7 Water Clarity: Good Moon Phase: 1% w...
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Posted: 5/10/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Did ok on Potholes this weekend. Three 19' Creb Creek and one 17" Lind Coulee and boy were they fatties. The 19's went from 2 to 2.5 pounds and the 17 was 1.75 pound. Also caught an small mouth 10" an...
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By: RC
Posted: 5/10/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Potholes in the crab creek arm for friday afternoon walleye fishing. Lots of company for a week day. Fished about 1/4 mile from power line crossing down the arm toward the main res. Fished in 12 t...
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By: Slabking
Posted: 5/9/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Checked out Potholes and the Seeps. Water temps from 54 - 58.4 in productive areas. Most of the fish caught were staging for spawn. I did spot a number of fish holding on beds. 6" Hudds worked slowly...
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Posted: 5/7/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Just returned from an 8 day adventure on Potholes. What an interesting trip. We expierenced everything from sunshine, crazy winds and even snow!!! The fishing wasn't fast and furious, but it was ...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 4/28/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This is a report for this past weekend's trip to the Potholes Resevoir: 4/24 Arrived at 3pm and in spite of the wind launched at around 5pm after getting camp set. Ran to the dunes and found them s...
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By: Yakivegas
Posted: 4/28/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
After a dissapointing morning at Warden I moved over to the Lind Coulee for some walleye action.It didnt take me long to find a good school of biters and had pretty good action for 2 or 3 hours.I was ...
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By: bschinski
Posted: 4/25/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Medicare Beach and the west end of Lind Coulee. Tried worms, blade baits and jigs. No luck at all. The wind didn't help.
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By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 4/21/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Potholes Open was this past weekend. It took over 47 Lbs. to win the tournament! Aaron Echternkamp won the tournament. Below is a picture of my two 5.5 Lb.+ Smallmouth caught on Saturday of the tourna...
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By: b8nwa8
Posted: 4/19/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Launched in the Lind Coulee and pretty much stayed in the coulee....water temp was 54 to 56..tons of boats on the water due to Mardon putting on their annual bass touney...and pre-fishing for the wall...
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By: gpc
Posted: 4/8/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for walleye at Potholes Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Not even a bite. We launched at both the Lind Coulee launches and fished that area the entire time. We didnt get to fish a whole lot due to ...
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Posted: 4/3/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/27/2010
Hot Spots: 3
sorry for late post first chance to get on the computer. fished Thursday to Saturday. very slow. People keep telling us fish at 40-50 ft. and we did but no fish. all fish were caught at 20-30 fee...
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By: bschinski
Posted: 3/24/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the South End of Potholes hard for two days. Mainly trolled along Medicare Beach and the western half of Lind Coulee. C/R'd six small walleyes, most on small jigs. Caught the only keeper, 15 in...
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By: Yakivegas
Posted: 3/22/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished about 3 hours in the morning up Lind Coulee.We pulled worm harnesses on bottom walkers in about 30-35 ft of water.Got worm stripped on the first hit,caught and released a small walleys on the s...
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Posted: 3/15/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started out fishing Lind Coulee arm of O'sullivan Dam. Took a little bit to find some fish. Water temp was around 45 degrees. Finally starting marking fish by the island most were lying in the 17-20 f...
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Posted: 2/18/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Wanapum Dam to try for Walleye. The dam had completely shut off all flow and the river below the dam had dropped about 4 feet, too much to launch the 14 foot boat. So went to Potholes to try...
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Posted: 1/18/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to try some winter walleye from the mardon dock got there saturday morning and left monday morning. Fished from the dock, it was ice free due to harbor de-icers most of the lake was still iced o...
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Posted: 9/28/2009
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Mardon had it's annual Dock tournament this weekend and the crappie fishing was pretty good. Many keepers were caught and the winner was just over a pound. When I left there were no Trout or Catfish o...
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By: gpc
Posted: 9/7/2009
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Mar Don dock for a couple of hours on Sunday. The fishing wwas pretty hot the entire time we were there. Then a storm hit and we tried to wait it out at the cafe, but it got worse. So our f...
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By: gpc
Posted: 8/30/2009
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Stayed at Mar Don Resort for the weekend and fished off their dock Sat and Sun.I was trying for crappie but they wernt being very coperative. Caught about 10 and only 1 made the 9" min. The perch fish...
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Posted: 8/11/2009
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Crappie Fishing was very slow in fact sucked on the 9th through 10th. Carp jumping everywere a few bass caught but nothing to talk about. but on the last day we killed the catfish west of mardon fishi...
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Posted: 8/10/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing at potholes while on vaction started with a shakey head worm and caught a couple but they were small. I finally sat down and fish on the bottom with some live worms and caught a couple of...
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