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By: hlindsay
Posted: 5/11/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished crab creek area, using bottom bouncer and worm harness, no bites.
Posted: 5/7/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the 2012 Rod Meseberg Spring Walleye Classic this weekend with my brother Kelly. We also had camera man Craig Brissey onboard filming for a new outdoor TV series. Saturday we weighed 5 fish to...
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: procaster
Posted: 5/1/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I had fished potholes when I was younger, and I knew there was plenty of bass to be caught. I arrived friday afternoon and stayed until monday. I heard that the bass bite was pretty slow so I was mo...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 4/30/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished a local club tournament for one day. We started at Big Dune and boated three bass. Then we tried some other dunes with similar features but didn't find any takers. We moved to the Goose Isla...
By: hlindsay
Posted: 4/26/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Lind Coulee with bottom bouncer and worm harnes, no bites. nothing for anyone I talked to.
By: Lundegard
Posted: 4/26/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
We fished the Potholes Open this year. In two days of fishing, we landed one largemouth. We learned that our approach was not always going to work. Our approach was to go to spots we knew held fish...
By: hlindsay
Posted: 4/26/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
fished up frenchmans troling a bottem bouncer and worm harnes. Not a bite.
By: sjrose24
Posted: 4/23/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Tried fishing Potholes for walleye this weekend without any luck. We were using worm harnesses with bottom bouncers and trolled about 1 mph. fishing was slow for everyone from what i heard from other ...
By: johnsgonefishin
Posted: 4/21/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went to potholes for early small mouth fishing. Very slow, Caught one nice one in the picture, on a wacky senko. My buddy caught a mutant rainbow trout when we switched to walleye rigs. The trout was ...
By: allanwalker
Posted: 4/9/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Potholes Saturday and got skunked.
Heard of 1 - 17" walleye caught in Crab Creek and one Rianbow. slow day for all who fished
Water temp +/- 48
By: kjtemp
Posted: 4/8/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
We stayed at the Lind Coulee area in a Rv from the 2nd to the 7th. On the 2nd we got there in the afternoon and set camp up and went out. We got 4 nice Walleye. The next two days were poor fishing,...
By: Boulton 21
Posted: 4/8/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
This trip was really to try the new I-pilot, but we fished, while playing with this new toy.
Water temp 45-47
Depth 9-15
Troll speed .4-1.2
Method Slow death- Smile blades- crawlers
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/18/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hadn't been to potholes reservoir for a couple of years so thought I would go get the boat in the water but all the ramps now have signs saying you need to pay $10 to use the launches.... I went to ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/12/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well.. I'd have to say that saturday was the best day of trout fishing I have ever experienced. We fished at Mar Don Resort from 10:30 am to 4 pm, and our group of four managed to land 14 trout! All f...
Posted: 3/7/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out Saturday morning even though the weather forcast called for high winds. Water temp was 37*. Started blade baiting humps and drop offs that are holding walleye. Most of the fish are on break...
By: Yakivegas
Posted: 11/28/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Tossed chartreause green PB out off medicare about 8am.It no sooner hit the water probably not even reaching the bottom yet and it was fish on.I was thinking allright this is going to be a good day.I ...
By: Yakivegas
Posted: 11/7/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Grabbed a buddy from work and made our way to Medicare beach for a little bank fishing.The last couple of years I have been doing better from the bank than from my boat this time of year.The set up is...
By: fishdoc
Posted: 11/6/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Loaded up the family today and headed to Potholes for a little trolling. I was hoping for a really good trout bite, but things were a little slow. My three year old reeled in one, my two year old re...
By: Troop of Three
Posted: 11/6/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
A buddy and I fished rainbows in the Lind Coulee arm of Potholes on November 4. The fishing was poor so after 4 hours of getting nipped by the wind we left the lake. I really got into the rainbows i...
By: woodfish24
Posted: 10/26/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Oh boy, the resevoir is turning over. If you are going, be prepared to have green slime everywhere including loading up on your reels. You won't have to watch your line because you will see the line t...
Posted: 10/24/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Our fall walleye bite is on! Still time to get a great trip in before the weather turns! Fished Wednesday and boated 8 to 25". The fish are hanging on breaks and the water seems to have cooled enough ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/10/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/9/2011
Hot Spots: 1
Had a great time fishing with guide Shelby Ross of Ross Outdoor Adventures (a guide sponsor on this site, 509.750.7763 ). Shelby took Aaron and myself out to some of the backwater dunes that are only ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/10/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/8/2011
Hot Spots: 2
Aaron and I got to the Potholes in the late afternoon and took his boat out for a few hours of trolling for rainbows. We were running four rods and using a variety of set ups. We fished across from th...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/9/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Caught several nice largemouth. They seem to be putting on winter weight, and fight hard. They still are hitting big topwater lures aggressively. The catfish are also stocking up for winter. Caugh...
