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By: fishindoc
Posted: 10/27/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
CF had the first keeper size walleye to the boat before I got my line in the water at other mouth of crab creek. Chartreuse spinners/slow death rigs behind bottom bouncers yielded 10 eyes between 17...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 10/24/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/24/2014
Hot Spots: 0
My regular fishing partners bailed on me and I must have looked pretty pitiful so my wife agreed to go with me today. We fished from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Fishing was much slower today than recent ou...
By: Yakivegas
Posted: 10/22/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/19/2014
Hot Spots: 1
This report is for Sunday,and Monday.The walleye bite has really been off the charts in both numbers and size.Both days I limited on walleye before noon.They seemed to bite about anything I put out th...
By: snakeeyes
Posted: 10/20/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Due to the reports the past few weeks, my buddy and I decided to make the 2 hour trek to the potholes last Saturday for the first time. We typically target eyes on Roosevelt and the Snake, so we took...
By: fdelgado17
Posted: 10/18/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I went to Moses Lake to watch my father-in-law, Larry Ellestad, get inducted into the ML Chamber of Commerce Agriculture Hall of Fame, but every trip over there always involves fishing because we both...
By: splishsplash
Posted: 10/16/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/12/2014
Hot Spots: 1
We decided to go to Potholes the 11th thru 13th, we hadn't fished there for a couple of years. Saturday was pretty windy so we didn't go out. Got a late start on Sunday, didn't hit the water until 11,...
By: TiredMark
Posted: 10/15/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Thought I would give the Potholes a shot as there has been good reports. Launched Sunday morning and had the first 3 walleyes trolling up the Lind coulee/wasteway. Things went quiet for a very long ...
By: Eyetri2
Posted: 10/14/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/14/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with Shelby Ross guide service this morning. Had a very good day fishing with a real pro. Highly recommend Shelby to anyone wanting a great experience on Potholes. Pulled plugs with great suc...
By: juggalo
Posted: 10/5/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Made it to potholes this morning with my fishing partner White Boy Troy.we were on the water about 8:30 launching at the state park.went strait to the dunes and had lines in the water within about 20 ...
By: Ruffneck18
Posted: 10/4/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry, not very good at puter stuff so not even gonna try to download pics!
Here's the skinny, Took the wife out for sum Walleye catchin cause the Salmon thing on the Columbia is A MADHOUSE.
We le...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 10/2/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great day out on the water with my son Kevin. Sunny day with a good walleye chop. We trolled plugs and spinners/bottom bouncers along the face of the dunes and later along Perch Point. The wa...
By: hewesbob
Posted: 9/30/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
A bit windy Sunday but what a reward for fighting the wind, this 28 inch 7 1/2 pound male walleye(I am hoping the picture uploads). We were about a half mile into Lind Coulee from the boat launch when...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 9/25/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/25/2014
Hot Spots: 2
This is my first report on this site. I went solo without my usual fishing partner. He normally gets the back of my boat ready for launching. After some distraction at the launch I backed my boat i...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/21/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/21/2014
Hot Spots: 2
A slice of Paradise that hardly anyone is fishing…
I know, it’s salmon time and everyone is jamming the rivers, fishing the salt, looking for chrome. Gringo Pescador, his brother Gene, and myself i...
By: clamdigger
Posted: 9/16/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
My wife and I spent half a day fishing with Shelby Ross of Ross Outdoor Adventures on Potholes Reservoir. We specifically targeted walleye, but also caught bass and perch. An awesome day! My wife ca...
By: eat-sleep-fish
Posted: 9/8/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Potholes again on Saturday and caught almost everything except walleye. Two largemouth, 1-2 pounds, one smallmouth, 1-1/2 pounds, dozen or so perch 10-12", a stick 28", and tail hooked a 20 pound ...
By: hlindsay
Posted: 9/6/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Quick report fished Tue. evening got some cats. Wen Thur. Fri. one Walleye 22' lost a smaller one a few SMB, cats, perch one RBT. Trolling slow death or still fishing with worm and jig. Most of the ti...
By: eat-sleep-fish
Posted: 9/2/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/31/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Dad and I hit Potholes on Sunday to see if we could find some walleye. Main lake was a little rough when we arrived so we decided to try the Lind Coulee arm. Lots of little worm stealing perch the fir...
By: Jose Diaz
Posted: 8/31/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/31/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great day with my dad on Saturday and Sunday. The targeted species of walleye with a by-catch of large and smallmouth bass, perch, along with a surprise bullhead. The biggest fish came on trolli...
By: fishinChristian
Posted: 8/14/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/8/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Sorry this is late, but 15+ hour days have eaten into extra time.
This is actually a 3-trip report, and the hot weather created the pattern. I won't dwell on numbers much, but suffice it to say mo...
By: billdance
Posted: 8/11/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Potholes for the first time this year. Bass fishing was pretty hot… weather was hotter. Lot's of fish in the two pound range. Mixed bag of bucket mouths and smallies. Biggest fish was the smal...
By: fdelgado17
Posted: 8/6/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/3/2014
Hot Spots: 0
After a tough day of trout fishing, returned to the Potholes with my in laws looking for some walleyes. We hit the water at six and tried the mid lake humps for a bit and then switched to a spot near ...
By: fdelgado17
Posted: 8/6/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I made the journey from Silverdale to Moses Lake to show my dad and our friend how to use the new downriggers he (our friend) bought for his boat. He wanted to make a trial run before heading out to t...
Posted: 7/23/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/22/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tuesday morning for a couple hours; 5 minutes in have a double on, two 3+ lb largemouth, then it was 12 walleye with a 27" big fish, lots of perch from 8-14" and a few small mouth to 3lbs. Also...
By: aortbahn
Posted: 7/14/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for both friday and saturday. A couple friends and I hit the potholes for some walleye fishing and we did pretty good. Friday got one over and a total of eight walleyes for the boat wi...