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By: brad aldrich
Posted: 8/25/2007
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/25/2007
Hot Spots: 0
steve and i fished swofford pond a little while ago, fishing was real slow at first then at about 8pm the bass starting really going crazy, hooked this fish twice before and lost it almost immediately...
By: bionic_one
Posted: 5/10/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Swofford pond from about 10am to 4pm. I intended to go after some bass. Had a new lure that I got with my WALakes.com gift package and tried that. Tried fishing shallow areas on the far ban...
By: arniejl
Posted: 5/16/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Swofford for the first time ever with a friend that lives in Morton (he has never fished it, either). Got on the water around 1:00 p.m. and instantly started catching bluegill with a small Rapa...
By: gbpackerdog
Posted: 6/8/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
first time on this lake and i will be back. boated 9 fish in 4 hours. ranged in size from 1lb to 3.4lb. the best part was the fight. these fish are strong. I mostly fish thurston county and the do...
By: bassendave
Posted: 6/27/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
for the month of June i caught a 3.3. a 5.8 and a 6.00 largemouth all caught on Gary Yamamoto Senkos T-rig # 241 color
By: Bisk1tSnGraV
Posted: 8/2/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took my son R0cky23 out to get him onto his first bass. Was a cold, foggy, rainy morning and we had the lake all to ourselves but am sure everyone within a 10 mile radius heard Nathan as he hooked an...
By: arniejl
Posted: 2/10/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well, still kind of high on my fluke from last Sunday, was hoping to duplicate, but to no avail.
Fished from 11:00a.m. until 3:30 p.m. Fished mostly jigs with trailer, but tried a little panfish ac...
By: Aaidian
Posted: 4/23/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
First try at Swofford trying to take advantage of the first sunny day off I have had in months.
Only 2 other boats (1 a kayak) on the water when I launched my cartopper, and wouldn't you know it...t...
By: stoshzydek
Posted: 4/24/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Swofford is still slow for bass. I have been out there every week for the past 3 weeks. Bass are a no show in the shallows what so ever. I've been looking for them in suspended water but am still tryi...
By: stoshzydek
Posted: 6/4/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing is heating up. Alot of surface action at dusk and dawn. Hooked into a 1.5 lb largemouth and a bunch of little guys, and even a 3 inch trout fry. Right after I hooked into the 1.5er I casted di...
By: stoshzydek
Posted: 6/6/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Caught a 3lber, a 4 lber and a 4.5 lber, and a ton of dinks jigging a senko. bass wouldn't bite anything topwater. Saw 3 monster hawgs sitting on nests but couldn't make them budge. Had one huge one o...
By: jayshaw20
Posted: 4/17/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy and I hit the water around 8:30 am, we were using square bill crank baits with a slower retrieve and managed to land one 3 pound large mouth (weighed) and one little 1/2 pounder. Both were ca...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/1/2004
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Me and a couple buddies went camped at mossyrock park on riffe lake and tried to fish it but got nothing. we decided to go to swafford pond and throw a couple lines out. we went out on float tubes and...
By: Thom Thornton
Posted: 5/2/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Water temp 52 degrees, overcast with sprinkles and very calm water. Caught one small 1 pound Largemouth on a small jerkbait in the shallows up against the reeds. Two good size largemouth on chartrus...
By: Thom Thornton
Posted: 6/24/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the pond at 5:30 AM and tried a number of different baits before hooking up on a white spinner bait. C & R 12 LMB and had a number of other follows. Most fish were about 2 pounds with a couple i...
By: jayshaw20
Posted: 8/7/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I used to fish Swofford when I was around 12 yrs old and never forgot the fun times I had there with my friends catching very nice large mouth bass out around that little "island" that is closer to th...
By: jayshaw20
Posted: 8/19/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Another succesful day at Swofford Pond, I had countless strikes and finally landed a descent sized large mouth. I was using a black top water frog. The thing I noticed was they hit hard and very fast,...
Posted: 4/11/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Had to endure a wet morning, but I had the place to myself and pulled a nice three pounder out when I wasn't expecting to. Landed a few small cutthroats, in the 8-10 inch range, in the process.
By: jayshaw20
Posted: 4/28/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I went to Swofford Pond Friday and was fishing for LMB. I was using crankbaits and caught 5 decent sized trout instead. I saw a very large bass swimming but it wasn’t interested in anything. I switche...
By: jayshaw20
Posted: 5/11/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well Swofford Pond has produced yet again! My friend and I got on the water at about 9:30 and fished until 3:00. We were using black top water frogs and the bass did not disappoint. I caught 3 and my ...
By: jayshaw20
Posted: 5/19/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Another good day on Swofford Pond. Caught a couple two pound LMB and two trout. Both bass were weighed.
By: Westside Angler
Posted: 6/15/2014
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/14/2014
Hot Spots: 0
1st trip to Swofford Pond, planned to fish for shad on Sunday and decided to stop by on my way to Bonneville to see if I could pick up some crappies for some camping fish-fry.
Got there about noon, s...
By: cbarlow253
Posted: 5/28/2013
Species: Catfish
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out to Swofford pond from Tacoma at about 6 30 am. We arrived there about 8ish many people on shore fishing but just two other boats on the lake. Starting off by tolling worm and wedding rings ...
By: FisherDude
Posted: 7/29/2014
Species: Catfish
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went for the channel cats that are out on swofford. Last year came at the same time and same month, but only caught 4 little foot long cats on worms off the bottom. This year I came prepared with some...
By: Rmcdonald
Posted: 3/27/2016
Species: Catfish
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/26/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished swofford pond in mossy rock with 2 of my buddies today. Started fishing at 10 a.m. & fished until 3 pm. Started out fishing for catfish with chicken livers, sand shrimp & nightcrawlers but afte...