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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/1/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished worms and a bobber from a friend's private dock on the west side of the lake Friday evening and Saturday morning. Caught two Friday evening between 8:00 - 8:30PM. The next morning began at 7A...
By: saltyseadog
Posted: 4/26/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
had a line in at 530 am trolled till 700 with one fish in the 3 pound range then still fished with a worm and bobber had a ten fish limit in 30 mins. five fish went over 9 pounds all fat big bellies (...
By: Isaacm1986
Posted: 1/25/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Yesterday went and fished Goodwin. There was nothing, spend a couple hours fishing the docks and rock walls trying to get some bass to hit, but they must be pretty deep right now. Switched to trolling...
By: Jersey
Posted: 5/4/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took my refurbished 18 ft bass boat out today just to see if all livewells and electrical were working and my son and i decided to throw a couple of bobbers in the water with the worms we had from th...
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: 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: sumbeech66
Posted: 7/2/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
First time at Goodwin.
Got there about 5pm. Lots of boats and water sports going on plus some wind, made it interesting to maneuver the little boat around. Didn't catch anything of great size but...
By: barbarossa13
Posted: 3/26/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/19/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Goodwin before the county shuts down the public launch for the summer. If I remember right they’re closing it May-September. When they’re done it should be a lot nicer launch though. Worked th...
By: gljorgy1962
Posted: 3/14/2019
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/14/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I’ve been trying for smallmouth all winter and finally caught one dink and completely ignored another take because I haven’t felt a tap tap of a bass since November....
Carolina rig with a Berkeley...
By: gljorgy1962
Posted: 3/15/2019
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/15/2019
Hot Spots: 0
My second smallie of the year is much better than the first one. Exactly the same gear as I used yesterday in fact I had the same craw on as yesterday. Carolina rigged craw fished slow over the gra...
By: gljorgy1962
Posted: 3/21/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/21/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Took a couple of casts off my dock just to see if anything would cooperate. Yamamoto double tail skirted grub on a 3/8 oz jig head. Only one hit but it stuck. No scale but it was about 15 or 16 inc...
By: Jersey
Posted: 5/9/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
8:45 am hit the lake. headed north and left no area untouched from 6' - 2' deep. And some drops I found. 1st time hitting it big here. I figured out all the tricks and landed alot of fish. Wish I had ...
By: Amx
Posted: 6/26/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Caught some, about 6 or 7, lost some good ones, one maybe 4 lbs and another 2 lbs or so. All on crankbaits. They didn't seem to want dropshot, Carolina rig, or senkos today. They seemed to just want s...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/5/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing with Big Bass Dez and his friend Lacy. We pounded the water from 9am to 4pm and tried just about every type of presentation we could, but the best we managed was 3 small bass and one trou...
By: oneshot
Posted: 6/24/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Finally put some plans in to action and headed out to fish with Quadfather yesterday.. we have been chatting for a couple years but never connected until now. another wa.lakes.com hookup success.. :)...
By: Tom6001pnwbasser
Posted: 10/30/2022
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/10/2022
Hot Spots: 0
My personal best Smallie on a drop shot off the Wenberg County Park dock. About 4lbs, 20.5" fish. It was the only fish I landed that day, but worthwhile trip.
By: Inselwind
Posted: 8/21/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Originally put in early morning on a friends boat and did some trolling for trout with nothing happening. no bites or anything. We were trying multiple lures and presentations but no downriggers. W...
By: 2feetitis
Posted: 7/28/2019
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/28/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I wish the gate would open before 7am, but we were the 3rd boat in line. We decided to fish the north part of the lake in the cove to the North East. We began fishing the docks looking for hungry bass...
By: ELKINK
Posted: 2/6/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
So it was the first time I have ever fished the west side of the state and I gotta say it sucked ..lol
The inlaws are camped at a rv park on lake goodwin so I thought I would drop a line the water ...
By: TrueJamo
Posted: 4/1/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Opening day of new season, new fisherman myself but I've always wanted to go out and get into it. Took my daughter and wife and met my dad at the north park of Lake Goodwin. Don't have a boat so it wa...
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: andTHEREiWAS
Posted: 4/5/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Rated the day a four, cause it was just so nice to have some decent weather. The weather on this side of the mountains SUUUUUCCCKS!!! Decided to go to Goodwin for some shore fishing before I go hit it...
By: fishtimidator
Posted: 3/9/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/8/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Took the Wife, daughter and dogs down to Wenberg State Park to enjoy the evening and wet a line. Didn't hook a thing, but may return with the boat cause during the last 90 minutes of daylight the trou...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/30/2005
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/29/2005
Hot Spots: 0
What a great day of fishing!!!!!!!!!!! We were fishing for trout all day and taking turns catching nice size trout (14"-17 1/2") when all of a sudden my boyfriend, Roger, was reeling in a trout and st...
By: fishtimidator
Posted: 4/7/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to try Goodwin after being blown off Big lake this morning! Goodwin has a couple coves you can seek a little shelter in, so, after paying too much to launch ha ha, we headed Northwest into the...
