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By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 5/7/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
This weekend out at Potholes Reservoir has been as good as the weather will let it. With these rough cold fronts coming in with low night time temperatures it makes the fishing overall a bit of a chal...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 8/31/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing on Potholes is getting as hot as the weather is!
We launched out of MarDon Friday and started off with crankbaits on the face of the sand dunes. With a water temperature in the high 70's a...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 8/10/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Have been out 3 times in the past week. Condensing the reports together to keep it simple.
The past week with the water level at 1034.6, which is 11 feet below full pool and water temps in the low ...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 7/26/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Going to combine a couple of trips here within the past few days.
Last week I took out Tha to show him around the dunes, and we ended up with a nice 4 1/2 lb. Smallmouth up in the Winchester Arm on...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 6/30/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
ON BEHALF OF MARDON RESORT:
By: Mike Meseberg & Nick Barr
Ready or not here comes the 4th of July, 2011 edition. The water level on Potholes Reservoir has dropped rapidly as of late, with th...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 6/27/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Larry and his Nephews Bill and Dylan went out with me for a day on Banks Lake.
We launched around 6am out of Coulee City and headed out to some shallow flats no deeper than 8 feet and began to fish...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 6/23/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I took my client Ed out this morning before work at MarDon Resort on Potholes Reservoir. It was very calm and hot. With water temps ranging 64-72F
We got out fairly late for this time of year at 6:...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 6/15/2011
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out and fun fished today for a few hours during the day and a few hours at sundown.
Went for smallmouth at lunchtime. Water was 61F at the dam. Hooked a HUGE walleye, probably the largest I've...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 6/13/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Banks Lake B.A.S.S Qualifier
June 11th & 12th
I fished this tournament as a non-boater as I didn't even know I was going to fish it till last week.
We had 18 boats turn out as we launched Satur...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 6/7/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
NWBASS Tournament on Potholes Reservoir June 4th
Held out of MarDon Resort
Tournament was won by Lynch & Tripp with almost 23 lbs. of Largemouth
Levi Rodelo & I finished in the 30's somewhere...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 5/15/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out after Smallmouth on a beautiful Friday.
Throwing Yamamoto Double Tail Hula Grub jigs in brown on a crunchtime football head and Rapala X-Rap jerkabaits in walleye fry colors around the ro...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 5/5/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I took out Hal and his Brother for the day on Potholes Reservoir.
We launched out of MarDon Resort and began fishing for smallmouth right away. The water was still fairly cool on the main lake wit...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 5/2/2011
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Clear Lake for a warm afternoon looking for Largemouth. Fished for an hour with not seeing much sign of Largemouth yet, with the water at 48F, but it was SUNNY and warm!!!
Called up the...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 5/2/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Took Nick & Jesse out to Badger Lake to go after some bass and trout on opening day.
The water was still very cold at 48F, and we fished the north section of the lake for bass and lost 1 good sized...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 4/21/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Potholes Open Day 2:
Launched at 6AM and weigh in was at 11:30AM.
Sitting in 17th, 14lbs. behind the lead sack of 29lbs. brought in the first day we decided to go for consistency and go for Smal...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 4/21/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Day 1 of the Potholes Open:
Jon Werner & I fished the 32nd Annual Potholes Open.
The day started out launching at 9:30AM and we decided to try and get our limit of smallmouth before we run to th...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 4/11/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out again on Sunday at Potholes to pre-fish for the Open tournament next weekend.
Primarly searched out new water and ran around the lake hitting areas I have never fished before, so was not e...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 4/11/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
First "EWU Fishing Club Fish-In" and first guided bass fishing trip of the year.
Got to the lake at 6:30am and got all 8 students who showed up for the fish-in situated, then got out on the water.
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By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 4/4/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out for the first time on Potholes this year.
The day started around 8am with it being nice & sunny, which held throughout most of the day. A light wind made it a bit chilly though.
We went...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 10/28/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
EWU Fishing Club
"Potholes Cast N Blast 2010"
The Eastern Washington Fishing Club's first outing:
We started out up in the dunes each morning, duck hunting. It was fairly slow for us, being be...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 5/21/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took Steve out to American Lake today for some Smallmouth action.
Rainy, slightly windy, and overcast most of the day, with water temps high 50's to 60. Water was fairly clear.
The cold front s...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 5/17/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished American Lake on Thursday. Had a great time catching 3 big smallmouth, and hooking up with multiple fish schooling in the morning. Hal and I had a 5.25 Lb. Smallmouth, a 4.75 Smallmouth, and a ...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 4/28/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Long Lake over Opening day weekend. The unfortunate piece was that the lake underwent a large herbicide weed kill 3 days before opening day, which definately affected the bass fishing.
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By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 4/21/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to American on Sunday. The weather was not that great, but a big, fat smallmouth made up for it. It was wet and windy, but sticking out there in the weather yielded a 4lb. 11oz. smallmouth ca...
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...