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By: rcthepirate
Posted: 3/22/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Lake Goodwin today between 1:30 and 3:30 PM. My primary objective was to test out the new downrigger, and hopefully pick up a couple of trout. I started out trolling a silver flatfish behind a ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/16/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
After getting skunked at Blackmans for the las 3 weeks.. and that morning too....Tanner and I decided it was time to give Goodwin a shot. 10 minutes out of the launch going left I hooked into a pretty...
By: Bryce
Posted: 4/22/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out to lake Goodwin this beautiful spring morning. I broke a sweat, but not from the fishing, just from the sun. Used cowbells and wedding rings, which usually knocks 'em dead at Goodwin. Tied ...
By: fishnazzi
Posted: 4/27/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Ok this is a little late. Sunday afternoon had a friend in the boat at Goodwin really wanted to catch some trout. We trolled wedding rings with a worm and on the other rod a red and white needlefish. ...
By: Liquid metal
Posted: 5/16/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Grandson and I hit the lake at 6:00am we left at 10:00am. We trolled for trout first useing a jointed crawdad shad rap on one rod and a frog collered krocodile spoon on the other. 2 hours in and b...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/6/2001
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/6/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake at about 8am trolled around wedding ring tipped with worm, and got one hit that popped the release on the downrigger, also tried a needlefish with no results, rooster tail, and rapala ...
By: wagner.it
Posted: 6/30/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at the lake around 12:00pm today, moderate traffic on the lake, but very few people fishing. It was sunny and around 70. Headed north from Wenburg State Park and had the first fish on in 5 m...
By: vardy
Posted: 4/29/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/29/2007
Hot Spots: 0
We began trolling at the far northern part of the lake which is where I reside at 5:45pm. There are very few fish populating the north western section of this lake besides the occasional largemouth h...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/26/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/24/2008
Hot Spots: 0
went to goodwin for first time. caught 5 18 inchers , 1 about 12 & 3 plants
from this year. they seem to hit all morning long on the south end. slow trolling with bait.
already planing the next tri...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 5/26/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/26/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Overcast day, took my wife and kids out to Lk. Goodwin for our first time fishing this lake. Luckily the overcast sky held back the jet skiers pretty well. We went in at Wenburg state park launch, ...
By: justinc210
Posted: 5/29/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Hit the lake at 9:30AM for some trout fishing. Ran into fish near the state park and had success trolling back and forth across the mouth of the bay just north of the state park. Fish were good sized ...
By: noskills
Posted: 6/1/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/31/2008
Hot Spots: 0
on the lake @ 4pm mostly a check out trip for the boat. marked a huge school of fish right off the bat south of the boat launch but no takers trolled till 7pm windy with some sprinkles.
i gave it a t...
By: noskills
Posted: 6/10/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/8/2008
Hot Spots: 0
fished from 8am till noon. caught 20+ fish released all but 4 (snack). fish fought hard for average stockers, lots of jumping and splashing. very entertaining.
red wedding ring tipped with worm + ...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 6/16/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Finally getting around to reporting on fishing last Saturday at Goodwin. Took a friend and his son in the boat from 8:30am to noon. We were getting consistent action from 9-12 inch hard-fighting, big ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/9/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Nice day on the lake, but poor fishing for us. This was the first time I had ever been skunked at Goodwin. We fished from 8-3. We used pop gear/cow bells and a red/orange wedding rigging with a trebl...
By: byrdsfishing
Posted: 4/6/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Took the boat out couldnt help it as it was an absolutly beautiful day, mostly to get the kinks out from the winter. Any how had a blast threw the lines in to get them wet and boy howdy hard strike an...
By: Okie
Posted: 4/18/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/18/2009
Hot Spots: 1
My son and I headed to Goodwin to fish for smallmouth. Fished for about 4 hours without a hit. To keep my son interested and to not go home skunked, we began trolling for trout with a wedding ring a...
By: Fish_Slayer83
Posted: 4/26/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake around 6:30am. There was already about 15 boats. It looked like some kind of bass tournament was underway. Saw about 6 big bass boats all with a bright neon CONTEST sticker on motor. We s...
By: Liquid metal
Posted: 8/9/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Goodwin this morning around 9:00am with my grandson. We fished till 1:00 pm. We trolled JSR05 jointed shad raps(crawdad) up in the north western bowl for an hour and half. (This is my local lake s...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 1/17/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went up N. to Lake Goodwin and met up with fellow WALAKER "SaltySeaDog" Also had "Datsun" with me. We launched around 11:30? went across the lake to "The Hedge" trolled a couple of passes here with...
By: cubmaster
Posted: 1/15/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We trolled lake Goodwin for 5 hours and did not have any luck. We were hoping to hook some of the 5,000 rainbows that were reported to have been stocked at this lake earlier in the week. But we had ...
By: fisherman92
Posted: 6/18/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/17/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Goodwin in the afternoons on Saturday and Sunday. I put my boat in for a few weeks to give my old lake a shot. Fished for smallmouth Saturday mid day and afternoon. Tried alot if areas, depths,...
By: novicefisher404
Posted: 4/15/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/15/2021
Hot Spots: 0
2 bites but no fish in the boat.
Launched my kayak from lake Goodwin community park @ 7 am. Started trolling woolie buggers 16 inches behind silver dodgers @ 1.5 - 1.7 mph. Over the next 3 hours I...
By: Uncle Booch
Posted: 7/30/2009
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Goodwin with 5 friends. We spent 3 hours there and probably caught around 90-100 fish. It was insane, you couldn't keep them off the hook. The only downfall was that the biggest fish was p...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/9/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/8/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I was very happy we brought home a 14 in.!!
