Fresh News from MarDon: Central Washington waterfowl
Mike Meseberg | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 11 years, 9 months AGO
J.C. Worsham of Royal City shows his first Mallard Drake! 11-year-old J.C. was hunting with his father Sam and grandfather Mark Stevenson.
Water fowlers continue to enjoy positive numbers of waterfowl in Central Washington. With ice encroaching on the sand dunes on Potholes Reservoir limits continue to be reported from Winchester Wasteway and Frenchman's Wasteway. Most boat launches on Potholes Reservoir are iced in as of January 17, 2013. With plenty of publiic access these marsh areas awith moving water provide jum shooting and small number of decoy set up's for hunters. Duck hunters are also reporting funnel clouds of Northern Ducks in corn fields from the Banks Lake area to South Columbia Basin. Waterfowl season ends the last Sunday of January. For a current hunting or ice-fishing report please call (509) 346-2651 from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. daily.
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The fishing in the Potholes Recreation Area this October has been just as good as we thought it would be. We experienced some rapidly cooling weather which rapidly cooled the water temperatures and really turns on the fall bite. The walleye fishers are producing limits almost daily.
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As Potholes Reservoir cools with incoming fall weather the fishing for all species will only get better. The bass guys are having a ball with largemouth bass at the face of the dunes. Smallmouth bass are most catchable at the rock piles in the main lake between Goose Island and O'Sullivan Dam. Potholes are now at the low water status typical for this time of year. Cover is harder for fish to locate for sanctuary. (Now is when the underwater habitat restoration project is the most valuable, cwfac.org).
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It's hard to believe but the already great fishing on Potholes Reservoir will just be getting better. The perch fishing at the State Park and off the MarDon Dock has been great.