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Potholes Lake Report
Grant County, WA

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09/09/2019
66° - 70°
Trolling
Crappie
None
Chartreuse
Mostly Sunny
Jigs
Morning
66° - 70°
09/09/2019
5
7873

After several miserable August outings it was finally nice getting back into catching mode. We decided to target crappie at Potholes after hearing about recent success by friends. Al and I had not fished for crappie in years so it was truly going to be an experiment today. We brought along CF who had success finding fish last year at Potholes.

We launched at Mardon and headed to the face of the dunes and pulled size 4,5 and 7 Flickershads up into Crab Creek picking up a bass, walleye, catfish, perch and finally a crappie. After an hour we switched over to 1//8 and 1/4 crappie jigs and game was on. Over the next 6 hours we landed and released over 50 crappie most 10-13 inches. Largest was a 15” slab. We trolled the jigs in 10-15 FOW at 0.8-1.2 mph. Yellow and chartreuse colors worked best.

The last 2 hours we added a single bottom walker with a slow death rig and picked up 6 decent walleyes with the largest 23”. We added a bluegill to the variety near the end.

It was another great day on the water with great friends!


Comments

Riverdick
9/9/2019 7:47:46 PM
Riverdick
9/9/2019 7:47:48 PM
Riverdick
9/9/2019 7:48:49 PM
Cool report. I enjoyed reading it.

Well done on the fishing.
TrackerPro16
9/9/2019 8:07:46 PM
Very nice!
afk
9/9/2019 8:21:07 PM
Looks like a well deserved day of catching!
hewesfisher
9/10/2019 8:18:27 AM
Great report!!
Big Smooth
9/13/2019 6:49:14 AM
Thanks for the report. I’ll be out there the next few days searching for them. I hope to have just small amount of what you were able to bring in. I’ve actually never trolled a jig head, but it makes sense to slow roll em in the dunes. Particular skirt color produce more than the others?
fishindoc
9/13/2019 7:10:36 AM
Yellow #1, chartreuse #2.
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