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By: dutchman2858
Posted: 11/14/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/13/2013
Hot Spots: 0
First a qualifier: I'm not much of a bass fisherman, so take all this info with a grain (or pound) of salt! That said...did some research on cold water smallmouth fishing and decided to hit Lake Goodw...
By: fisherman92
Posted: 12/24/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Cast bright green power bait off the dock, thought id see if there were any nice fish ready to bite.
fished about 3 hours and got one really nice rainbow, bigger than expected. 18.5 inches and weig...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 5/18/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/13/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I was hoping I would find this lake free of spawners but that wasn't the case. Although they were just starting to bed up it was still more than possible to catch them without ever touching a bed! Fis...
By: brojay
Posted: 6/8/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
First time to Goodwin and it was a beautiful day.Launched from Wenberg State Park $7.00 park fee to get in.Started fishing at 7:00 a.m. and quit at 3:00 p.m.Fished the north end of the lake until noon...
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 6/17/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/17/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Well, technically the rating should only be a 2, but since the fish I caught was a PB Smallmouth at 3.35# it was well worth a 3 to me! Hit Lake Goodwin about 5:30pm and worked our way around the lake....
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 10/17/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Had a free afternoon and some sunshine so decided to give Goodwin a try for some SMB. Didn't quite work out the way I wanted. The wind picked up so it was very tough to drift over rocky points, and ar...
By: Kid@johns
Posted: 4/7/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/5/2015
Hot Spots: 2
My coworker and I decided to target rainbows after hearing a report from my father about his 27 fish day the day before. We got on the lake about 8 am. From the boat launch we started just left of the...
By: Lingking
Posted: 4/12/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at 07:30 from the state park. Started fishing just to the left of the launch. Having never fished Goodwin I only expected to catch small planted fish. I did! And plenty too! Getting a litt...
By: King me
Posted: 4/12/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/12/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Sorry I have no pictures to post, but I was too busy baiting the kids rods to take pictures. Lk. Goodwin is on fire right now. We had the most success trolling from the surface down to 10'. Wedding r...
By: benson9872
Posted: 4/14/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/9/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Great day out fishing with my grand daughter and wife trolling castmasters. Lost a least 20 or more fishing was hot.
By: Falconeitti
Posted: 4/15/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Great day on the lake. Tried everything in the boat with no luck. They should have been there.
Will get them next time. First report, hope the next one is a little more exciting.
By: cobrar543
Posted: 4/18/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/18/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake with my new boat today but the skunk stayed on. Left the down riggers at home, and that I fell was a real mistake. But after reading the last few weeks reports of lots of fish caught on ...
By: rseas
Posted: 4/19/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/18/2015
Hot Spots: 3
What a day! It started out a little questionable but in the end it was 5 year old nirvana. Saturday we had planned to fish Lake Stevens for kokanee but as luck may have it my daughter had a flat tire ...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 4/20/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/20/2015
Hot Spots: 3
I was hoping to beat the spawn on this lake but I was too late :( Fish are definitely bedding up, some settled, some still spawning and some uncommitted, we tried fishing out off of the spawning areas...
By: tyee4me
Posted: 5/9/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/9/2015
Hot Spots: 2
We launched from the State Park and motored to the Northeast end of the lake & started to fish at 12:45 pm once anchored on bottom in 20 ft using Yellow & Red Gulp Eggs. We had been on the bottom for ...
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 7/17/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/17/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Good day today. Hit the lake at 7:15 AM and started near the ramp tossing cranks, dropshot and tubes. Nothing doing, so trolled cranks toward the North end of the lake. We hit several spots, picked up...
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 8/3/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well, today was a "1" for me, but a 4+ for my son. He ended up with double digits with a 3.1# SMB to top off his day. Big fish was caught on a football head jig with a craw trailer. The small ones wer...
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 11/20/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Waited until 8 AM to head over to Goodwin to get a read on the weather and let the ice melt off the boat cover! The plan was to target SMB, using the fishfinder to search for fish holding deeper in th...
By: cobrar543
Posted: 1/11/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Tried everything that normally works. Read that they restocked the lake last month but seen very few fish on the charts. Did catch a very nice mid 3# small mouth on a turn when my gear must have gott...
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 1/18/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/18/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a couple hours at Goodwin this morning. First thing I noticed is that Wenberg Park raised the launch fee from $7 to $10. Didn't mark any fish and didn't get any action at all. Wx was pretty goo...
By: JoshH
Posted: 2/14/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/14/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Picked up my Hobie Pro Angler 14 Saturday and was itchin to get it out on the water. Luckily my wife ok'd me heading out today. Today was mainly a test run, seeing how I need to place everything, work...
By: JoshH
Posted: 2/27/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/27/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Launched about 8am, think there were 5 other boats on the water this morning. Ran 1 rod on the downrigger, about 40 feet behind the clip and anywhere from 15 -25 feet down.. Started that rod with mack...
By: JoshH
Posted: 3/5/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/5/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fully intending on starting to fish at 7am ..... I arrived at 8. Forecast was for some winds, but I had an itch I needed to scratch. Started fishing about 8:15. Turned right out of the launch and head...
By: Salmonking
Posted: 3/6/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/5/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on the water with my friend, his wife and their dog. (attempted to) trolled the northern side of the lake. tried everything in the box, wedding rings tipped, HD trout, lake troll gear, kitchen...
By: JoshH
Posted: 3/20/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/20/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I should have just stayed home today. Arrived at Wenberg at about 7:30am. Was about to pay my $10 when someone starts yelling something to me. They are heading out. Turned off the Jeep, to hear them t...
