Potholes Reservoir Hunting/Fishing

[younghunter123]

I am planning to go on a hunting/fishing trip to Potholes Reservoir in eastern Washington this April. I was wondering if anybody had any tips on where to find great bass spots or walleye spots. Also if anybody had an idea where I could have luck bow hunting coyotes. Any info would be great thanks!

[bigtex]

Lots of coyotes in that area.

Just make sure you are not hunting on the National Wildlife Refuge, it is not open to coyote hunting!

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Welcome to the site!   Do a seach on those topics and  stop in at the Newby Introductions and give all of us a report of your lifes experience!  Thanks and again welcome!

[eastsidemallard74]

PM me when you head this way,I will help you find spots.....
I like to help people out, because it wasn't long ago I was in your shoes.

[moocher97]

I fished potholes once before and caught a couple 5pound largemouth and tons of smallmouth using just a rattle traps. Any thing like this would be good trolling along the right side of the dock along the rocks casting at the rocks or trolling along them

[Sniper101]

if you're interested in largmouth you're going to wan o go in the dunes and look around the islands for beaver huts and flip these with texas rigged 4.5 inch tubes in green or black with purple and gold flake. If you're lucky, this time of year they'll be spawning so you'll want to go slow through shallow flats and look for big, light colored circles on the bottom and throw tubes, drop shotted plastic worms, and sinkos onto hese spawning beds. You'll also want to throw white spinnerbaits across these flats as a serch bait to find where to look for fish. If you're going for smallmouth you'll want to look for bes just like thse in the open part of the lake around the rock islans, just be careful with your boat out here. Youll want to hrow green 3.5 inch tubes out here with 6 or 8lb test line with open hooked jigheads inside. PM me if you have more questions.

[Sniper101]

might still be a little cold though for spawning fish, just depends. if thewaters still in the 50s then youre going to want o fish he areas around thse spawning flats with chartruse ratle traps or shallow running, square billed red and orange crankbaits.

[Broken Arrow]

Besides bass, have also caught a ton of nice trout on rattletraps in the dunes as well