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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/9/2001
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/9/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Goodwin is one of my favorite lakes since it comes on after most lakes have been fished on pretty heavily and lasts into the summer. Due to our mixed weather, most of the fish are still suspende...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/21/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/21/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Water in the 68-70 degree range. 4#6oz largemouth, one nice smallmouth that got off. Only one other boat fishing, but 50 jet ski's!!
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/10/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/10/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake at 5:30 fished on the west side. Under the docks
10-5FT got a nibble and then set the hook it was a 5LBS.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/24/2001
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/24/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Took my soon to be four year old granddaughter to the lake today for her very first fishing trip. At her age we were lucky to get to the lake and start fishing by 11 a.m. but this trip was for her, n...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/26/2001
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/26/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on the lake about 7:30 and headed out to the "hedges" in about 30 ft. of water. Fished there for over an hour and caught 1 13 inch rainbow and a few perch. Lost one that seemed kind of big but...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/27/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Mcmurray but had limited success, common for this time of year, so I went to Lake Goodwin which is always good into July. I trolled a six pack fly while my partner trolled a wedding ring...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/15/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/15/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Went to my favorite late season lake (Goodwin). The water was boiling with fish feeding on a fly I could not match after six tries. My partner was using a wedding ring spinner tipped with a small ba...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/19/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/19/2002
Hot Spots: 0
I started fishing at 6A.M. I caught my limit by 8:30. I was using a mepps 0 spinner
with a night crawler. I fished the rest of the day for bluegill & perch. At the north end
I saw a boat with a sig...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/22/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/22/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Took my four year old granddaughter to Lake Goodwin for some fishing and just playing around in the boat. Got there late (small children do not understand the need to fish early) and fished the "hedg...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/2/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/2/2002
Hot Spots: 0
The DFW did not open Lake Washington again, coho are not in area 8.2 yet in good numbers and I refuse to join the maddening crowds at the "Bubble" so I took a friend to Lake Goodwin. Anchored in 29 f...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/24/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 1/24/2003
Hot Spots: 0
The lake is a bit slow but if you keep moving till you find the big perch schools you'll have your 100 perch in no time. and you will hook an occasional holdover rainbow. That is always nice on an ult...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/24/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/24/2003
Hot Spots: 0
I started fishing at 6 a. m. I caught a 12 in trout at the end of the float on left side of boat launch with my first cast . I caught another 12 inch trout trolling spinner and a night crawler across ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/26/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/26/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 7:30 am till 10:30am dragging buggers and Goodwin Specials. Not so special this time! Released 3 planters, kept 2 in the 11-12" range. Much slower than this time last year, fish seem sm...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/22/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/22/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Took the neighbor girls, Courtney and Morgan, out for a perching expedition. if you are teaching kids how to fish there is nothing better than doing it on perch. all you have to do is find the honey h...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/23/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/23/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Lake Goodwin w/ my buddy today. We caught 5 bass total, all on fire tiger rattle raps. All smallmouth around 2lbs. Caught around points w/ rocky bottoms.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/10/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/10/2003
Hot Spots: 0
This is my favorite July/August lake when there is not salmon fishing which is due to change soon. The fish are not at the hedges where they generally are, I am finding them in the 32-35 foot water i...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/26/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/26/2003
Hot Spots: 0
For those who do like perch, the hedges have been promising. Although I did fish in about 32 feet of water today more towards the middle of the south end and had very good luck.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/27/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 9/27/2003
Hot Spots: 0
For my neighbor's daughter's birthday what she wanted was a fishing trip with one of her friends. This really wasn't a fishing trip, more like a catching trip as it generally is on lake Goodwin for pe...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/2/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around noon. Fished for 3 hours.. Caught several nice trout in the cove just North of the launch. Fished the 50ft area around 2ish just drifting with the wind and caught several nice ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/9/2004
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/9/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Neighbor and I fished Lake Goodwin on June 9. Had three hits and one fish to the boat in the first five minutes. Slowed down a little with some wind but for the day we landed between 30 and 40 trout...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/25/2004
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/25/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around noon. Pretty windy, but sunny.
Fished four hours, landed five fish. One was 16',
another around 14'. Lots of strikes on Wedding rings
and worms. Jet skiers make trolling a ch...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/13/2004
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/13/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Took my granddaughter(7yoa) my daughter's fiancé and his daughter (8yoa) today to Lake Goodwin. I've talked about this lake many times and it is still one of the best-and most under fished-in the cou...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/3/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Granddaughter and I at Lake Goodwin again with great luck fishing bait on the bottom over at the hedges. Not a lot of competition but lots of fish. Talked to two guys trolling flies and they claimed...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/4/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/4/2004
Hot Spots: 0
I went to Lake Goodwin for the first time July 29th 2004.On the water about
9:30am Water skiers there must all have fast watches or 10:00am start to
them is 9:30. About my 3rd cast I got a 3.5 small...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/1/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the lake about 3:00 PM, started fishing about a half hour later. Not a bite, tried poppers, repallas, spinners, worms. Had seen a couple of other boats with 2-3 fish. It wasn't until about 6:45...
