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By: YellowBear
Posted: 9/28/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
We got out on Potholes yesterday and the fall bite is heating up.
We caught Smallmouth, Largemouth, Bluegill and Rainbow Trout.
Best bait of the day was a 3.5 inch Sweet Beaver on a 1/16th oz jig w...
By: JoeC.
Posted: 9/17/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/16/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Had 3 nice afternoons/evenings (Sun, Mon, Tues) fishing Potholes this week. Water level was very low, much lower than my last trip in June, and the lake is having a very strong algae bloom. The area...
By: BassinBomber
Posted: 8/29/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/24/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well the much anticipated trip 2 Mardon/Potholes was just what we needed! We arrived Saturday {BassFanatic, Magnificent1 and myself} about 10 AM and we really didn't fish till Sunday Early AM. Hit the...
By: DAngler
Posted: 8/24/2008
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
First time fishing the Potholes. Pulled up to the east-end Public Access around 8 am and was surprised to see so many fish jumping.
I started from the bank with a worm/wedding-ring combo and worm/bob...
By: Nelly1
Posted: 8/23/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/23/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Stayed at Mardon resort 8/14--8/18.
Fished Saturday at Medicare beach.
Trolled plugs @ 2.5-3 mph in 50ft of water for 30 min. tops, and FISH ON!
Went back out on Sunday and my wife hooked its twin...
By: Team Daiwa
Posted: 8/18/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
My first report here after lots of time reading all the reports here and learning about the lakes here in Washington state.
After doing a lot of research and not owning a boat I decided to take a tri...
By: jbball50
Posted: 8/16/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/16/2008
Hot Spots: 0
We headed over to Potholes on Thursday and got to the lake around 9:30. We had trouble with the big motor and had to mess around with that for about an hour before my dad figured out the pin or screw...
By: crappiemaster
Posted: 8/13/2008
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
A little breezy, coming out of the northwest,water just perfect for crappie. Caught eight crappie on white twister tail with a 1/32 ounce jig head. Trick today was a super slow retrieve. My son cau...
By: Edgeran
Posted: 7/7/2008
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the weekend at Potholes. Pretty slow fishing. We managed to hook into 3 Largies, best two shown here (First one caught on a BrushHog and the other on a Creature bait). We also hooked into a 2.5l...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 6/30/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Potholes 9-11 am. I fished along the dam, initially casting a senko. After an hour of no hits I tried still fishing a nightcrawler off the bottom, then from a bobber, to see if I could get a ...
By: JoeC.
Posted: 6/21/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/20/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Here's nice Largemouth estimated around 4.5 lbs or so, we had no scale!.
I took him at Mardons docks at Potholes last week around 8PM. Ten minutes later took another largemouth about 3+ lbs. Pul...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/4/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Had one of the BEST days fishing!! Caught a 19" 4.9 lb smallmouth off the dock at Mar Don. Hubby caught an 18". Had to throw several back because they were too big! The next day we caught 6 under 14"....
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/2/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
First time on the lake and I managed a 1.7 and 2.9lb largies on a senko and crankbait and broke off a smallmouth. Som caught a 2.7 and 2.9lb largies, both on a jig/pig. All fish caught in the dunes....
By: stroodle99
Posted: 6/2/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
We used leeches off of the dock and caught a huge 4.9 lb 19inch Smallmouth. Just sitting off of the dock and BAM! Almost broke the pole. This was the dock at Mardon Resort. We caught over 13 fish that...
By: gpc
Posted: 5/27/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled Potholes for 2 days over the weekend.
Saturday: trolled from 10am -3pm in Lind Coulee. It took us a little while to find the fish, but once we found them it was non stop. In about 2 hours w...
By: NWwoody
Posted: 5/21/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Crab Creek Sunday night, all day Monday and Tuesday morning. We were using bottom walkers and double whammys. We caught 4 walleye one was 23 inches 2 were 20 and one was 14. Fishing was slow. P...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/20/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing early at the P.H. Wind was light, water temp 59. I was using plastic at first and caught two 12" SM then switch to spinner-bait and caught five, with the smallest at 12" the largest at 1...
By: ripper
Posted: 5/12/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I took the wife and Lil' Ripper over to Potholes this last weekend. Friday was nice and sunny, almost 70 deg. Went out for the evening to Lind Coulee where the guys at the Mardon store said they w...
By: fishtimidator
Posted: 4/25/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/25/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to skip out on the masses playing bumper boats tomorrow, and headed over the hill to spend a three day weekend at of my favorite fishing places in this State...... The Potholes Reservoir! Wooh...
By: Deadeyemark
Posted: 4/21/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
My partner and I only weighed in two fish at this year's Potholes Open. Couldn't seem to put a solid pattern together under the circumstances. Maybe next year.
By: wsu15
Posted: 4/15/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I had a two day bass tournament and i only caught one 3.21 pound smallmouth off a rapala shad rap in shad colors. Some people didn't catch a thing but some maxed out both days and the largest caught w...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/14/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Spent yet another worthless day in search of Walleye up the Linde Coulee. Tried drop shotting worms, pulling worm harnesses all for nothing. Main part of Potholes is right at 51 degrees, and the Lind ...
By: gpc
Posted: 4/7/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Stayed at Mar Don resort from Thursday until Sunday. We just fished from our campsite and didn't catch a thing. We didn't fish it too hard, just throwing powerbait during the time we were there. Ther...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/2/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Launched the boat around 8am & headed out to the mouth of Crab creek.Located some suspended Fish in about 40 ft. of water and started jigging.After awhile we figured this wasn't working so we slow tro...
By: gpc
Posted: 10/10/2007
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/10/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Mar Don for the night. Another trip out there for speeding tickets, but fortunately it wasn't me this time. Any we didn't get to fish potholes a whole lot. We fished it for about 3 hours t...