pot holes bass fishing info?

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Permalink Reply by P.J. Koshi on August 17, 2011 at 7:59pm

That lake is not that big right now.  My biggest word of advice is go slow if you are anywhere near the dunes or the dam!  There are some major underwater sandbars and rock piles that will take you out!  Take your topwater frogs!

Permalink Reply by Ryan Lamb on August 17, 2011 at 10:05pm

PJ's got it, a buddy went over there a little bit ago and told me he saw 91 for temps in the dunes!

W/ the water that warm the fish stick on those sandbars and ledges like magnets there.

 

 

Permalink Reply by Jim Smith on August 18, 2011 at 12:19pm

Be careful as the health dept. for Grant County just issued a warning for TOXIC blue/green algae near the Lind Coulle launch and the Job Corps Dike area.  That stuff can be very nasty.

Permalink Reply by collin sidebotham on August 18, 2011 at 4:50pm

Sweet! So as long as I don't crash my boat on shallow sandbars or die from toxic algae i should have a good time!! That's for the imput!!

Permalink Reply by collin sidebotham on August 18, 2011 at 10:59pm

Really appreciate the info thanks again!

Permalink Reply by Douglas Booth on August 19, 2011 at 3:26pm

I was over there last week and the fishing was great.  Saw the algae bloom in Lind coulee, its pretty nasty but the fish were still biting.  It pretty weedy in the dunes once you get out the the main canals but the fish are hitting the frogs.  The topwater action is awesome at dusk but be sure and bring a lot of mosquito repellant.  Good luck!

Permalink Reply by Mike Bess on August 22, 2011 at 9:33pm

You will kill a dog if you let it swim during a bloom.

Jim Smith said:

Be careful as the health dept. for Grant County just issued a warning for TOXIC blue/green algae near the Lind Coulle launch and the Job Corps D*** area.  That stuff can be very nasty.

Permalink Reply by collin sidebotham on August 22, 2011 at 9:42pm

Yeah I just did some reading on it. The stuff seems pretty nasty but only harmful if you ingest it. So if your dog swims through it and later licks its paws or something it could be bad news!! They make it seem like its easy to spot though, they explain it as looking like bluish green paint on the surface of the water.

Permalink Reply by Jake Anderson on August 24, 2011 at 12:32pm

Collin,

 

Potholes is pretty simple.  After you launch, reach up to the top of your head.  Pinch as much hair in between your thumb, and your pointer finger as possible.  Clamp down on the hair and quickly make a ripping motion toward the sky.  Before you do this, tell your partner that if you sneeze, he is to kick you in the balls at the precise moment of the sneez.   If you don't sneez....well.....you will be able to tell everyone you got lucky at potholes.

 

Snake

Permalink Reply by Zach Chandler on August 24, 2011 at 6:42pm

Pretty funny Snake, and accurate.

Jake "The Snake" Anderson said:

Collin,

 

Potholes is pretty simple.  After you launch, reach up to the top of your head.  Pinch as much hair in between your thumb, and your pointer finger as possible.  Clamp down on the hair and quickly make a ripping motion toward the sky.  Before you do this, tell your partner that if you sneeze, he is to kick you in the balls at the precise moment of the sneez.   If you don't sneez....well.....you will be able to tell everyone you got lucky at potholes.

 

Snake

Permalink Reply by collin sidebotham on August 29, 2011 at 7:15pm

Just got back from Potholes and had a great time, caught some lunkers as well 1 over 5 lb's!!! I got 1 question though does the water level ever get too low to fish the dunes? I was back in there but didn't see much structure at all the water was so low that the grass and brush was on shore...90% of the area looked like barren sandy wasteland I spent alot of time searching back there but was never confident about there being fish??

Permalink Reply by P.J. Koshi on August 31, 2011 at 9:55pm

There is structure back there and it should be very visible now if you can make it back to it!  There are several stickups and huts that are in the main channels, but you really need an air boat or mud boat to get back to those now.  Last year in the later part of August I fished a club tournament over there and I was the only one fishing in the dunes.  All I was fishing was huts and stickups primarily.  I did not catch enough fish to do real well, but I did catch a 5.5 and two fish over 4lbs out of the back that weekend.  Almost all of your fish in that lake are now sitting off shore on ledges and ditches with some piece of wood or junk on the bottom.

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