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Posted: 4/11/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Water temps were 49.5 to 52.5 degrees! I missed three solid fish, one on a crawdad colored crankbait, hooked him just long enough to wish I caught him.....BIG!! Had one dart up under my jig right b...
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Posted: 10/24/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/21/2007
Hot Spots: 0
there sure are some nice trout in goodwin. wish the perch were bigger but oh well. some people don't know you can chum in goodwin. a little corn really brings the trout around. we either use worms or ...
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By: Dave
Posted: 2/24/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/24/2008
Hot Spots: 0
This is my first report for 2008 and my first time out on the water this year. I gave in today (major cabin fever) and went to Lake Goodwin for an hour or so to wet a line. My expectations of catching...
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By: fishlips
Posted: 3/3/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit one of my favorite lakes this morning. Surprized to see the fee went up again to $7.00 now. Water was at 47 with a slight breeze. Saw one fish surface and none caught. Spent 2 1/2 hours out no bit...
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By: buzzbait
Posted: 5/18/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Shakeyhead fishing with roboworms. Also got the biggest on a Senko.Caught 6 Smallies. Biggest went 4.2,& 4.6. Best 5 went 16.4lbs.
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By: buzzbait
Posted: 5/21/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went for a couple hours this morning.Got 6 fish 2 were big.The rest were around 2 pounds.I have noticed alot of new beds and they are mostly the little guys.It seems like all the biggies spawned first...
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Posted: 5/24/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I got to the lake around 6:30 am fished the beds catch and release only i was using Strike King Pro Model Jig Pumpkin Green color with a trailer AquaGlow™ Split-Tail Grub color Baby Bass.
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By: lowvw
Posted: 7/31/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got out of work at 130 w/ Snohobassguy to try and beat the massive crowds....somewhat successful. Lots of people, lots of boats, lots of fish. Fished plastics the majority of the time, threw a few jig...
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Posted: 7/31/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Launched from Wenberg around 2:30 pm, and immediately dodged all the bikin clad girls who wanted me :). We headed to south where there seemed to be less boats, and jumped into the water first thing t...
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Posted: 5/26/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/25/2009
Hot Spots: 3
First report in a loooong time for me, but, I have a promise to keep. The only bad thing is I can't get the photo's to upload on my crappy old computer!! So words will have to do the job. I took m...
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Posted: 5/30/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got there at 7 am motered over to a cove and fished with a weightless senco. (and some jigs and power worms) had 2, 10 inchers in a hour? found a place where there was like 10 beds all in a 30 foot sp...
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By: buzzbait
Posted: 6/2/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Back out on Goodwin today after a couple weeks of not fishing.Not a bad day.Had to really work for them.Very good day for variety.Got 4 bed fish,3 fluke fish,3 shakeyhead fish(with roboworm),and 2 on ...
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Posted: 6/5/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Launched from Wenberg around 4:30 or so. It was around 85 out, so of course there were more sport boaters than I could count. Kind of expected that. At least some skinny old grey beard in a bikini ...
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By: lowvw
Posted: 6/15/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit up Goodwin w/ Snohobassguy for a morning fish...On the lake by 6:15 and stayed till a little after one. Fished plastics the majority of the day. Found a pattern that worked and stayed with it, did...
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By: buzzbait
Posted: 1/27/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Trying to prove that you can catch these Bass during the winter.Last trip here and to Stevens had turned up nothing,but I couldn't let this beautiful January weather pass me by.I started out drop-shot...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 2/2/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Water temps were 44-45.5*, and that is about all I have to tell thanks to a moment of DOH! on my part. Inspired by Buzzbait's recent report, I ran to Goodwin today, 1) to run some fuel system cleaner ...
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By: buzzbait
Posted: 2/8/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had a couple hours to spend this morning so I thought I would give Goodwin another shot.After that 4 pounder last week I was hoping for a repeat.I got on the water at 9AM and left at 11.I went to my f...
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Posted: 2/17/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Haven't posted here in a while, but saw some good reports from BB and 8theB8, so I thought I would contribute. I have a small bass buster boat w/ trolling motor only and thought Goodwin would be my b...
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By: lowvw
Posted: 2/22/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Goodwin with Snohobassguy from 10-3:15 on Sunday. Surface temp from 43-45 as the day went on. Mainly focused our efforts from about 10-30ft. Worked points, the rock flats on the west side, the ...
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By: buzzbait
Posted: 2/22/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful day out there.Prob.half a dozen boats.I targeted Smallies.Caught only 2 but they were fatties.First one ate a new "hot tip" roboworm on a drop shot.went a little over 4 pounds.Next fish came...
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Posted: 2/23/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, the day started bad w/ me going to 3 lakes to fish for largies, only to find out they were closed - wasted bout 1 1/2 hrs on that. Then hit goodwin and decided to flip docks for the 1st hour or...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 3/8/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
FINALLY! Launched around 10am into a snow flurry of all things! Ran northwest from the launch up towards the RV park on the west side of the lake. There is a shallow rocky flat and point there that br...
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By: lowvw
Posted: 1/18/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had to get out of the house, decided to head to Goodwin w/ Snohobassguy for about 5 hours. Fished majority of the lake out to about 25/30 ft. Mainly threw plastics. On and off rain and a little windy....
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 1/22/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Tried every variation of a drop shot rig you can think of, in depths 5 to 30 feet no bites. Tried numerous suspending crankbaits over grass in 12-18 feet, nothing. Water temps were mid 40's, wind w...
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By: 8theB8
Posted: 6/19/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/18/2009
Hot Spots: 3
Well, tonights excursion started as most of my trips do, spontaneously! Finally had a night with my wife all to myself as our daughter was at a sleep over, and she wanted to go fishing (exactly why I ...
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