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By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/21/2001
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Rating: 3
Fished: 10/21/2001
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Camped at Potholes State Park from Oct 17 to Oct 21. We fished the seep lakes and had some sucess catching little guys (8 inches or so). On Sunday I got up early and fished in the area of Frenchman W...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/16/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Couldn't find the largemouth bite (caught 12", but nothing else) on Sat. or
Sun. Tried shallow deep, brush, lilies, crab creek, dunes, East shore, but
all to no avail. Threw black 7 " yakamoto wor...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/9/2001
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/9/2001
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3 to 5 ft waves didn't keep us from catching some monster trout ! Frenchy's (Frenchmans wasteway) is jumping with large trout. 23 Feet of water seemed to be the hot spot... within 5 minutes we had 2...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/4/2001
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Rating: 2
Fished: 6/4/2001
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I was trout fishing with my friend "swede" and hadn't been doing too well. The wind stopped blowing so we headed over to the state park and started fishing about 4:00 pm. Hooked a monster, probably ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/31/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/31/2001
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Rented a boat at Mar Don. Dad and I trolled around with no luck for three hours. Several boats at mouth of Frenchman's but saw no fish caught. We tied on a couple of diving crank baits and trolled bac...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/11/2001
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Rating: 1
Fished: 5/11/2001
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Had high hopes for a weekend at potholes, but alas...twas not to be. Fishing was horrible. Talked with a lot of people and not a single Walleye caught and I only saw one guy pull in a trout the entire...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/8/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/8/2001
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Large trout are coming out of the shore brush to strike at plugs and Mepps #2's. Water level still high. Perch to 15" caught off the dock at Mardon. Crappie are in the dunes spawning. No bass at t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/24/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 3/24/2001
Hot Spots: 0
On Friday, March 23rd my fishing partner Darin and I decided to head over
to the Potholes to do some weekend trout fishing. Heading over the pass we
were excited to get over to the water and get ou...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/12/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 3/12/2001
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Well, a little better this week! on and off in the reservoir, we got lots of fish, but you really have to put in the time for them, but it's worth it. We got trout 2 to 4-1/2 pounds real nice shape. A...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/21/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 1/21/2001
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Went to potholes last weekend. Fished small lake east of potholes right next to road. Perch were biting great. The main reason in this report is to express an opinion. I saw people catching and keepin...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/2/2001
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Rating: 3
Fished: 1/2/2001
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Fish medicare beach (perch point) with worms and 2 mellows. I caught 1 rainbow that went 21 inches. Most are 14". Don't cast too far out. The fish are there.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/15/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/15/2000
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Fished mar don dock we fished 5hrs. I caught my 5 trout to 4lbs.
My son Mike and my niece caught some nice crappies and bluegills.
I fished with a slip bobber set to 20/25 ft.with night crawers.
Ki...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/12/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/12/2000
Hot Spots: 0
A friend and I were camping at mardon resort. the trip was of
course a fish trip. we started at about 11:00 am with in five minutes I hooked into a three pound small mouth bass. we caught decent ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/5/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/5/2000
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We trolled mainly in front of the state park with a perch colored lure called Hot Lips. We trolled this with nothing in front of it and bare hooks. My friend and I limited both days with 2 to 4 lb. ra...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/2/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/2/2000
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WOW ! What a great fishing trip.... We launched at 7:30 am at the O'Sullivan Launch and had our first nice 4 lb. rainbow at 7:50 ! We had heard that the trolling lure of choice was the "baby hot lip...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/13/2000
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/13/2000
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My wife and I and the kids left the boat ramp at the O'Sullivan Dam at approx. 0845. We went to the Frenchman's Wasteway and trolled rapalas to no avail. After 30 minutes of fruitless trolling I dec...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/1/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/1/2000
Hot Spots: 0
I trolled the lake Sat with a homemade wedding ring/double whammy tipped with fat crawlers while trailing behind some baby cowbells. I limited within 5 hours. The trout I boated were nothing compared...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/16/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/16/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Just thought I would send you guys a report for my weekend at potholes. Went fishing at crab creek fri and sat without a bite. Nobody was catching them there. So we decided to go to the dunes on the l...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/21/2000
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/21/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Spent 2 days this weekend fishing the Potholes (which is very high with water right now). Concentrated on the large trout and caught several 18 to 20 inchers the first day (Saturday), most effective f...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/20/2000
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/20/2000
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We fished the Lind Coulee. Water temp was in the mid 60s fish where in 15ft.We caught trout walleye and Smallmouth.All fish caught on jigs tipped with worms. Yellow and white tube jigs where the best ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/30/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/30/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Launched out of the north end of the Potholes Reservoir (Crab Creek) and headed south in search of some 'Eyes... Within 20 minutes had a keeper in the cooler. Every half hour or so after that we had f...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/29/2000
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/29/2000
Hot Spots: 0
A friend and I fished about 9 hours in Potholes Reservoir, between the Frenchman's Wasteway and the State Park boat launch. We caught 2 rainbows over 2 lbs, and one small 8 in trout
on Wedding Rings...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/15/2000
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/15/2000
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy Craig, his son Corey (13) and I went to the PotHoles area for outdoors weekend of Camping, Golfing and Fishing. We camped at the Potholes State Park and launched from there. Saturday we fishe...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/8/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/8/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for Rainbows near Mardon Resort both midday Saturday and Sunday. My two sons were with me, Nathan (8 years) and Wesley (5 years). We were all trolling Flatfish lures (F4 and F5) behind a sma...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/12/2000
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Rating: 4
Fished: 3/12/2000
Hot Spots: 0
My grandfather and I had been trout fishing all morning and hadn't had a bite. So we decided to go see if the bass were biting. So we rigged up for bass fishing and headed over to goose island. Whe...