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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/18/2001
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/18/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 6 - 11 am. caught 3 small bass on perch colored rapalas, and dozens of perch and bluegill using nightcrawlers, maggots, and small bright colored plastic jigs. we were after crappie but n...
By: trout17
Posted: 7/8/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got there late afternoon. We were catching fish left and right then caught the biggest one of the day, about a 7 pound smallmouth below the dam. Fun day with my dad.
By: huntrobb
Posted: 7/23/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
had a day off from work so i thought i would hit up swafford pond. fished for a couple hours and only cought one perch. i used to have a lot of luck here but lately i havent had any luck for trout. ev...
By: cbarlow253
Posted: 6/1/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/24/2014
Hot Spots: 0
My fishing buddy and I headed over from where we were camping on the other side of Riffe over to Swofford pond for the day looking to land some nice Rainbows and maybe a few Bass. We struck out on the...
By: leahcim_dahc
Posted: 7/6/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at Swofford Pond around 800 am. Slight breeze from the west around 5-10 mph. Cloudy, threatening rain for most of the day. Water temperature was around 70F.
Quite a few people were already ...
By: leahcim_dahc
Posted: 9/2/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at Swafford and got on the water around 6:00am. Air temp was right around 55F, water temp was around 68F, mostly cloudy and wind was from the west at 5 mph. Water was typical for Swafford, dir...
By: Armando Cortez
Posted: 4/20/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My friend "Joey" decided that we needed to go on a camping/fishing trip so she booked us a cabin at Ike Kinswa State Park for the weekend. Knowing how tough it can be to catch fish on Mayfield Lake f...
Posted: 7/6/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/6/2007
Hot Spots: 0
First time to fish the lake. Wind was blowing better good, little rough with electric. Only one bite but it was still a beautiful day. Will come back again. Have a great day!
By: biggs
Posted: 1/21/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
i hit the lake around 7am.bottom fished with power eggs for an hour with no luck. tried bobber/worm 4feet down, but i couldn't keep little fish (bluegill/crappie?) from dragging it around. just before...
By: leahcim_dahc
Posted: 5/11/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at Swofford Pond at around 9:00 am. Wind was around 10mph from the southwest. Water temperature was right around 56 F.
Offloaded the pontoon and motored around the pond. Ended up on the wes...
By: leahcim_dahc
Posted: 5/13/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Today was the day to spend some time alone with the wifey and kids. We were already down at the in-laws and the daughter wanted to fish at Swafford today.
Arrived at about 7:30 am, wind was from th...
By: leahcim_dahc
Posted: 5/25/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Had a day of fishing planned out for a few guys from work and myself. Weather reports earlier in the week called for rain and wind...so we were up in the air whether the guys were going or not. Starte...
By: leahcim_dahc
Posted: 5/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at Swofford Pond at around 0700 am. Overcast, air temperature was about 55F. No electronics this trip...no water temperature. Probably safe to say it was right around 55F-60F. Water was slight...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 5/29/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/24/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I was driving from Yakima to Centralia, and since I had my 8-foot boat in the back of my truck I gave Swofford Pond a try. I fished it from about 7-8:30, trolling a red and white spoon for trout (I di...
By: Jh
Posted: 6/10/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Came down to pond for some mid morning fishing. Got a nice spot on the shore. We spent over an hour trying to get a bite with no luck. We didn't see anyone else having luck either. Mostly used hook an...
By: Rmcdonald
Posted: 4/30/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Girlfriend her 2 kids 12&14 & my daughter 14 & I, started fishing at 11:50 at swofford pond in mossyrock & had our 25 trout limit by 2:15. We were using pink power eggs with garlic glitter smelly jell...
Posted: 6/5/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got out later in the afternoon when the crowds started heading home. Had my wife and father in law out so three poles in the water Caught one 12 in Rainbow and my father in law caught two Brown slow s...
Posted: 4/21/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/20/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We decide to head out with my 3 and 4 year old's to Swofford Pond for some afternoon fishing. It was a little bit windy right at the beginning but then the wind let up. Was Fishing for about 2-3 hours...
Posted: 4/22/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/22/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Today was another day that we took the kids out. There were a bunch of people but we found a spot. It was tough had a few bites but then there was the one that I caught it was a decent fish a fryer f...
By: grubowski
Posted: 6/8/2018
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Well I'd planned on fishing Riffe for smallmouth. The forecast called for partly sunny skies and a calm wind becoming 5-9 mph in the afternoon. I drove the hour and forty five minutes to the Kosmo a...
By: Basshawg69
Posted: 4/7/2016
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/5/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to hit Swofford Pond with my Son for an evening/next day fishing trip. I haven't fished there in 25 years. My first cast I caught a 3# Largemouth. caught him on an old Rapala Minnow. Ended up ...
By: Spaceyak1000
Posted: 6/30/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I Spent 1.5 days fishing Swofford Pond. I had originally gone down for Musky on Mayfield but there was a tournament and I did not want to get in the way. I fished Friday evening and Sunday all day...
By: leahcim_dahc
Posted: 10/8/2007
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/7/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Got a late start at Swofford Pond yesterday. Got to the pond around 930 am. Weather was overcast and temp was around 55F-60F, slight breeze from the SSW at about 5 mph. Started of with a 3/8 oz jig wi...
By: reidmilt
Posted: 7/1/2007
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/19/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing around 5:30 out of my float tube around the boat launch throwing dark green senko rigged texas because of the dense weeds all through-out the lake. First batch of lilly pads pulled o...
By: Jo
Posted: 7/19/2007
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/19/2007
Hot Spots: 0
My 5 yr old son and I launched our Portabote around 8 am and we fished until 3 pm. I caught 3 medium bass with a silver weedless spoon. The largest one was around 14 inches with little girth. I cau...