Im heading to potholes for the weekend and was wondering if anyone could lend me some tips for this time of year?  Ive only been there 1 time late in the year.  I know my way around the lake but could use some help on where to go and what to use?  Or even just what colors work there?

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks

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Where's the punchbowl on Potholes? You must have been thinking Banks Lar.

Buzzbaits are good this time of the year also. Watermelon and green pumpkin are good colors for plastics pitched into brush. Jigs in bluegill or black and blue colors around brush and huts will still be effective. If there is some wind then chuck a spinnerbait around. This is mainly largemouth stuff.

For smallies, you stick to the rocks and throw everything until you see what they are hitting on. Typical dropshot baits, grubs, crawdad imitators, or reaction baits like a crank or jerkbait, spinnerbait. They should be moving out off the spawning flats so you may have to cover some water to find them, other than around the rock pile. Fish hold there year round. Late evening topwater with a sammie can be good up and down the dam. 

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Some body wake up Larry! He is having nightmares of bass in the punch bowl!  

I would drag some heavy football jigs w/watermellon hula grubs over the rocky points and piles. This may also yeild a tastey walleye for dinner.

Good. What did you get them to bite on? Any topwater action? I talked to a buddy who said fishing was tough on Sunday.

Yeah I've always had a tough time catching big smallies in the summer time. There is so much rocky bottom between the dam to goose island and up and down Lind Coulee for them to roam. The area with all the fish habitat stuff near Blythe might be a good place to go in summer. I stick to largemouth action this time of year.