One of the things that I have done in the chilly months is troll plugs on Potholes Reservoir, before it freezes. Not for walleye but for rainbow trout. I think that the trout fishing is underrated on Potholes, and not that many anglers target them. Knowing that good numbers of rainbow are caught from Medicare Beach, that is where I will look for them. On a winter day a couple of years ago I took a friend to Potholes, with the intent of getting some trout. I ran over to Medicare Beach and put out two plugs. One was perch pattern Rapala, and the other was a crawfish pattern Flicker Shad. I started at the bottom end of the beach and trolled up the reservoir, trying to keep the boat in 20 to 30 feet of water. Not long after we got started, the inside rod went off, and we could tell it was a big fish. It turned out to be a big walleye, stretching the tape to just over 27 inches. We released this one and started trolling again. This time the outside rod went off and once again it wasn’t a trout, but a 21-inch walleye. We never did land a trout.