Fresh News From MarDon
Mike Meseberg | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 11 years, 5 months AGO
Gig Harbor Resident, John Lester, trolled a Rapala Shad-Rap in the Crab Creek area of the sand-dunes for this beautiful walleye.
Perch fishing on the MarDon Dock continues to provide many families with limit lever perch catching. It continues to amaze our returning guests at MarDon Resort to see the increased populations of yellow perch, all over the Potholes Reservoir. Potholes Reservoir is just a couple feet below high pool as of Wednesday, June 12, 2013. The use of an underwater video camera off the Dock has been extremely entertaining to watch, visually it looks like an aquarium filled with fish. This evidence verifies the re-established perch populations on Potholes Reservoir, showing four different age classes of yellow perch. Recently we have witnessed the beginning of the crappie and blue-gill migration to the dock as well.
Walleye action continues to improve this past week. Many of the customers at MarDon Resort are catching near limits but it can be challenging at times.
Small mouth bass along the face of O'Sullivan Dam continues to provide great action. The baits of choice are top water lures, drop shotting, and yoyo jigging off the bottom with a football head and a yamamoto grub. Or simply a night-crawler is always a safe bet. Our WDFW Biologists have asked us at MarDon Resort to ask fishers to keep their limit of smallmouth bass, which is 10 fish with one over 14 inches, because Potholes Reservoir is over populated with smallmouth bass.
Events:
2013 Washington Bowfishing Championship held on Potholes Reservoir, June 15 and 16, 2013
For information or to attend this event please contact Brad Allred at Washingtonbowfishing@hotmail.com or visit washingtonbowfising.com.
Wednesday Night Shootout Fishing Event!
Biggest Bass wins 100% of the payout. $35 buy in, winner takes all. This is a four-hour, big fish weekly tournament at Potholes Reservoir and the Blythe ramp. The action begins Wednesday June 12 at Potholes and sign up's and livewell checks begins at 4 - 4:45 p.m. Blast off at 5 p.m. and weigh in at 9 p.m. Again, this is a weekly event and so this will be held every Wednesday starting June 12. For more information or questions please contact Mitch (509) 771-2838.
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Fresh News from MarDon
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.
Fresh News from MarDon
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).
Fresh News from MarDon
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.