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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: dutchman2858
Posted: 11/18/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/18/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Nada. Only had a short period to fish today, but headed to Goodwin since the wx was good. We concentrated on a couple areas that usually produce a bite or two and hit them with our usual weapons of ch...
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 10/31/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/28/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We launched at Wenberg Park at about 1:00PM. An absolutely perfect Fall day on Lake Goodwin! Partly cloudy with occasional sun, leaves turning on the trees around the lake and NO WIND! The fishing lef...
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 9/17/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/15/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Pretty tough day, but with the first fish within 10 minutes right at 3.35#, and the last fish in the last 10 minutes at 2.88# it was a pretty good day! Only one dink caught between those too. The bigg...
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 10/7/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Nothin' worked today. Wind came up quite a bit, but we were still able to fish the areas we wanted to...we just couldn't make anything work. Spent 3-4 hours trying all our standbys, plus a few more te...
By: JoshH
Posted: 8/27/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/27/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Got a new anchor trolley system and anchor for the Hobie, decided I would take it out for a try this morning on Goodwin. Since I haven't figured out the trick to trolling this lake mid-July thru Augus...
By: JoshH
Posted: 9/3/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/3/2016
Hot Spots: 1
I have the next week off from work, and my wife is out of town, what to do..... FISH!
Weather was kind of crap this morning, actually had to put the rain gear on, got a little chilly. The bonus wa...
By: JoshH
Posted: 9/9/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/9/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Been on vacation this week, and did a lot of fishing. Tried a few lakes I haven't fished in a while, last 2 days back to Goodwin. Yesterday I trolled all morning with no success. Today went back to an...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 4/10/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
First off, per site rules this day was rated a 2, I was very happy with the outing!
Well, if you're only going to catch 1 bass in 5 hours it helps when it's an 8lber!! Fished lipless cranks, DT6's,...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 4/17/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Nothing like some smallies to get the skunk out of the boat! Too bad I could only find 2. The pic fish went 2.2lbs and was the biggest unfortunately. Got that one skipping shallow docks with a Yamamot...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 4/23/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Pretty slow and no pics cause I lost one at the boat and the other nicer one made one last run and my line broke, I hate it when that happens! Must have had a nick from the rocks?.
The only two sma...
By: tHrilleR
Posted: 8/15/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/13/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake about 8, meant to be there earlier but slept in a bit... Whoops. Started lookin' for ditch pickles with a deep crank, bull doggin' it through the shallow rocks. 'Bout the third cast a mon...
By: tHrilleR
Posted: 9/3/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hitched up the boat after work to meet up with a buddy already on the lake. Decided to make a couple casts before I found him on the lake. Turns out that's all I needed. Second cast with a deep crank,...
By: bassplayer17
Posted: 6/3/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/2/2012
Hot Spots: 0
fished the evening bite that did'nt happen managed to get 2 dinks very windy with showers threw everything at em
By: buzzbait
Posted: 8/4/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went back to Goodwin today.Got a late start 10:45.Only fished till 1:45.Did ok though.I got my personal best smallie today.She weighed in at 5.7 lbs.She bit a 7"roboworm on a shakey head.I was going b...
By: soundbite23
Posted: 3/26/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished on the south end of the lake anchored in about 30ft of water and caught 2 nice trout I would say between 16 and 20 inches. The first one came in about 5 min and the second about 20 min after I ...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 4/8/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Finally got the skunk out of the boat for 2012!! She went 5.5lbs on a t-rigged worm. Water temps climbed from 47-50.5* with the sunshine today, this bass was with 2 others, one about 3#'s and another ...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 4/23/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from about 9am to 3pm, saw many cruising smallies but they were very spooky and the glass smooth water made them even more so. It wasn't until about 1:30 after the wind had picked up that I got...
By: LipRipper46
Posted: 4/26/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished about 11a.m. till 5p.m. Tough start, went 2 plus hours with no bites, but picked up cosiderably after that. Caught 9 total, biggest 4.1, several 3 to 3.5, smallest went 2.2. Offshore shallow fl...
By: LipRipper46
Posted: 4/29/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/28/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Caught several smallmouth today, biggest went 4.5, lots of 3-4 lbs, all fish under 10 feet of water. draggin football head grub. end of the day tried to skip docks for a largie and pulled a 4 plus pou...
By: watfordr
Posted: 5/9/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake arouond 10 and caught my first and last at 1030 off a football head jig. Caught a smallmouth under a dock. Not good with weight but maybe you guys can guess from the picture. I fished ...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 4/10/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
First off, YES I wanted to rate this day a 5!!! Just trying to follow the rules... Launched around 9:30am and there were 3 other boats already on the water bass fishing. The wind was blowing I would s...
By: f1sh1nf00l
Posted: 4/17/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for Saturday and Sunday. Club tourney on Goodwin. Saturday- Weather was crap! Fishing was very tough. 20 anglers, 5 had fish, 10 fish total, all smb. I had two fish for 8.59 lbs includi...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 4/26/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had about 5 hours to fish Easter morning, and a friend from work wanted to try bass fishing for the first time. I decided on Goodwin seeing as how smallies were starting to show. It was a chilly morni...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 5/16/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Finally got on a consistent smallmouth bite today! Water was in the high 50's to 60*, There was a slight green tinge to the water but still fairly clear. Wind was out of the south and east up to 10mph...
