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Posted: 10/1/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/28/2007
Hot Spots: 0
got out on potholes early a.m. Friday. wind was howling, and then it started to dump buckets rain. caught 2 smallies is all. the fishing was so bad, we decided to not fish the dock tourney, but, went ...
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By: gpc
Posted: 9/30/2007
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Rating: 5
Fished: 9/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Just got back from the dock tourney at Mar Don. The weather was pretty bad for that area, but it was nothing I'm not used too. The fishing was pretty good, but the weather kind of slowed down the bite...
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By: CK14
Posted: 9/22/2007
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/22/2007
Hot Spots: 0
went over for a couple days to do a little pre-fishing for the dock tournament. fishing was slow as it was still recovering from the big winds the past week. did get quite a few crappie , most were un...
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Posted: 9/17/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
hit potholes all day saturday. dusk to dawn. only caught 5 keepers, but 1 9 lb'er. so, the qualty outranked quantity. did not hear results from walleye tourney. also, caught bunches of smallmouth's al...
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By: danielt
Posted: 9/16/2007
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/16/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Saturday and sunday and caught some nice largemouth a few smallies. I dont know where the other pic is but heres one.
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Posted: 9/10/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/8/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I stayed at the Mardon Resort over the weekend, hoping to catch a walleye before I move back to the rainy-side next week. I arrived around 6 pm on Friday, and planned to fish off the dock. It was not ...
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By: jmay
Posted: 8/28/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/27/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Somehow I have never fished Potholes, not sure why but I wanted to give it a try. Caught a few perch and some small, small mouth in Lind Coulee. The fish finder showed tons of fish in 38-44 ft of wa...
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Posted: 8/27/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/27/2007
Hot Spots: 0
spent 3 days solid on potholes. crappie fishing is the best I've seen it since late 80's. smallies hit all day, just have to sort. walleye's hit my home-made double whammy's. nothing big. the walleye ...
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By: CK14
Posted: 8/7/2007
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/5/2007
Hot Spots: 0
fishing was pretty slow at the club tourny this weekend, i only got 4 keepers in 2 days and my dad got 1. i got 3 largies on senkos and one smallies on a dropshot, my dads was a largie on a senko. i e...
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By: gpc
Posted: 7/28/2007
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/28/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Just got back from Mar Don. The fishing wasn't great but I liked what I saw. This is the first year in a couple years I caught a good number of perch. I didn't catch any off the regular dock, only the...
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By: glenn
Posted: 7/15/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/14/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went evening fishing at the Potholes by the dam with the wife & 2 children. Wife again did great, son caught 3 which one was bigger than the 5 I caught, daughter did not fish, but played with some th...
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By: Kenster
Posted: 7/9/2007
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/9/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Well on my big trip this year we hit potholes 1st and started from the launch about 4:30AM. Headed to the dunes and ran all the way up the Crab Creek Inlet. Tossin' hugh spinners for hugh bass, we com...
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By: ripper
Posted: 6/4/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went over to Potholes Fri, Sat & sun with my 7y.o. son. Wanted to catch some walleye, but my son has no patience for trolling. Plus the only people who I talked to that had any success were going out ...
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Posted: 6/3/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/3/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I caught these Smallies on Yamamoto grubs on a jighead, fishing was kind of slow but these nice ones made the day a lot better. "Both fish were released"
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By: ripper
Posted: 5/21/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went over to P/H's Fri, Sat, Sun. Fished Lind Coulee on Fri. eve, no luck. Sat. got up at 4:30, and blazed out to crab creak. Kind of windy, had trouble with boat control, but managed 1 18" eye on a g...
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Posted: 5/21/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Potholes for the weekend of the 19th and 20th, Trolled for Walleyes both days with a little Bass fishing thrown in. Caught 1 walleye on Sat. around 17". Lots of boats in the Lind Coulee area s...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/30/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/28/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went out for a few hours to try some improvements made to 12'jon boat in cove at launch on o'sullivan dam (across from soda lake road). Used a rainbow and green rapala xrap, caught 2 sm bass. One was ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/17/2007
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/17/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Good fishing this morning went to blythe point and caught 4 smallies 2 were 3 pound plus and the other 2 were 1 1/2 pounds caught on manns crankbait all in 45 mins. Pretty good since the potholes has ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/17/2007
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
went to the Mar Don Resort to try our new boat and catch some fish. trolled along the dam and rocks near the dock for trout and walleye but no luck. after eating lunch me and my dad went into frenchme...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/15/2007
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Rating: 2
Fished: 4/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Good weather today.But bad fishing.We tried a spot at perch point and theres a bunch of fish there down in the drop off spots.The fish finder was goin nuts.But we didn't get 1 bite.
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/15/2007
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
No fish. Mediocre weather, lots of cloud cover and a little rain. Very slow bite for any species. Look for the lind coulee area or the dunes to heat up soon. Frenchman's wasteway is getting better too...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/12/2007
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/10/2007
Hot Spots: 0
had to try potholes for the 50,000 trout that were released last Friday, Come to find out all 50,000 were no bigger than 5 inches and to make matters worse a storm hit the day before and really screwe...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/8/2007
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/8/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Happy Easter to everyone, wife let me go out this morning and got a little lucky caught a couple of smallies at Blythe point, I was getting fastrated been going last couple of weeks and caught nothing...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/3/2007
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/24/2006
Hot Spots: 0
I can never get enough of this place, Caught lots of smallies and largemouth off the dam. Here's a pic of a pig. Tight Lines - Harrison
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/29/2006
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Rating: 2
Fished: 12/28/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Twas the first clear day in ages seemed like. Myself and my Brother Fatboy Tim went to Medicare beach. we found it was open water so we gave it a try. We used powerbaits, and eggs. After about 5 hours...
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