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By: trevorweger
Posted: 6/16/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/13/2009
Hot Spots: 3
Got on the water about 8:45 p.m. with my brother, wife, nephew and two freinds. Started catching 8" to 10" bows right as the first line hit the bottom. That was about the average size all night with ...
By: riprap101
Posted: 5/14/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Pops and I hit Waitts for the first time. Have been told about some nice browns, so we thought we would give it a shot. Ended the day with five browns, biggest was 23in., smallest was 18in. Also caugh...
Posted: 2/3/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for 3 hours or so, tried worms, corn, powerbait, and mealworms. Started off fishing 8-18 feet, graphed several fish and tried switching colors, and bait with no luck. Had better luck after we...
By: Bayner509
Posted: 4/28/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Opted to avoid the clutter of opening weekend, instead my buddies and I left early Monday morning (well early for 4 20yrs) about 10. Waitts has always been like a 2nd home for me, it has never disappo...
By: fishjtr
Posted: 5/5/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/3/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Trolling gold spoon perch pattern caught lots of dinks and four good browns. Weather was overcast and windy. Sun would bust through occasionally. Had a great time. Will try to figure out how to post p...
By: eustace
Posted: 5/9/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Whent up to see how my nephews were doing on the camping/fishing trip. They had caught three fish in the morning all at 8". So we decided to give it a try. We didn't fair any better, by six that eveni...
By: Piratefootball39
Posted: 5/29/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/19/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I spend alot of time up here... Greet fishing lake.. Do mostly Trout fishing but caught a 4 lb. Bass jigging for crappie off of the dock. Opening weekend Limited out trolling with a Triple Teaser.
By: ruthven78
Posted: 7/9/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/7/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Well actually had the rare opportunity to go fishing with my dad in his boat out on Waitts Saturday night. He rents a slip there at Silver Beach Resort. We arrive at around 8:00pm and he took me to...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/3/2005
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/29/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Went out late . got on lake around 9:30am , started trolling with leaded line and gangtroll w/ a night crawler . Ended up with limit in about two hours , fish ranged from 12 to 15 inchs . leaded line ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/2/2005
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/29/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Stayed at the Winona Beach Resort for three days to do some fishing and family camping (a little spendy but they had plentiful docks for mooring near any camp site). I had heard that there was suppos...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/29/2000
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/29/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Started trolling from the ramp right as the sun started to rise. before I knew it I had a pretty good hit. It was only a 12 inch rainbow. Cast crainkbaits until about 9:30, with only a few hits. At ab...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/5/2004
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/5/2004
Hot Spots: 0
3 friends and I still fished on the South and North end. Limited out and had to throw a few back. Beautiful day at the lake. Going back for more. Worms are the hit. See you out there.
By: ilv2fish
Posted: 6/20/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/20/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Took the wife up to Waitts to get her fill of trout fishing but ended up doing more bass fishing due to afternoon winds effecting boat control. Even though the bass are in spawn mode I managed to pick...
By: buzzard
Posted: 2/9/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
took several trout through the ice, 3 rainbows,2 browns largest rainbow was 21 inches using corn on a #8 hook mid morning, fishing has been real good limited out 4 out of the last 5 times i have went ...
By: blane956
Posted: 9/3/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/29/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Took the wife and little one out to Waitts lake to try night fishing. Have not night fished a lot, but I have heard that Waitts is a good one for it. Had a blast. We were targeting perch, but did not ...
By: Fishingdve
Posted: 6/29/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Friend and I took our wives out for some night fishing after the heat of the day on Saturday. We arrived about 9:00 and fished along the West End of the lake in about 38ft. of water. We caught goo...
By: ifish4ever
Posted: 5/1/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/29/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Took my kids to Waitts on Sunday (4-29) for limits of Trout (Browns and Rainbows). Trolled spinners with nightcrawlers on downriggers and lead core. Fished from 10-25' and caught fish at most depths. ...
By: ifish4ever
Posted: 5/1/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/30/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Took the kids fishing for Trout on Waitts Sunday. We trolled spinners and easily caught our limits or Browns and Rainbows at depths of 10 to 20'.
By: DannyP
Posted: 11/28/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at 1130 and started trolling north from there using a rippin minnow long lined. Did not take long at all to catch a nice brown trout. Continued fishing and put a flasher red apex combo on l...
By: tomnordman
Posted: 12/1/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Waitts today after reading a good report from last week and had a great day of catching. The fish are a bit smaller than the ones I am use to from Rock Lk but very healthy with bright red meat. We...
By: DannyP
Posted: 12/4/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Launched a little after 11 and started trolling from the ramp. First fish on in less than 5 minutes. Caught a mixture of Browns and Rainbows all on rippin minnows on the surface. Wife and daughter ...
By: DannyP
Posted: 12/5/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake again today and started out at 10. There was some ice that formed overnight in the shallows near the launch. Trolled rippin minnows again with good success. Friend tried a fly with an ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/24/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to waits lake 06/23/11 fished from 6pm until 9(would have fished longer due to the bite, but didn't have a boat light). Boated 1 brown and 6 rainbows or brood trout( anyone know the difference i...
By: starman371
Posted: 6/4/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I arrived at 8 AM (little later than I normally get out). I tried a Rooster Tail, which is usually a good producer there. This time I didn't have much luck, so I switched to trolling using lead core...
By: QueenMaryCaptain
Posted: 5/21/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished a few hours at Waitts to get the girls into some EZ trout action. Lots of bites, got a couple planters in the boat. Tried to locate some perch and couldn't find them.
