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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: Anonymous
Posted: 10/1/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
we trolled all over the lake awesome day light wind. we caught 4 trout from 12 to 14 inch not the biggest fish but a real nice day. A nother fisherman had caught 5 trout trolling also. We tryed bottom...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 4/27/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Great opening day. Only a little crazy at the ramp! Arrived at 7:00AM and had three limits by 10:30. 8 browns, 5 planter bowes and two brooder stocked jumbos. All in all a great morning. Red wedd...
By: CoyoteCrazy
Posted: 11/23/2013
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/23/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Braved the 16* cold this morning to try for some big browns up at Waitts. Some duck hunters welcomed our arrival with a couple volleys at the numerous ducks. Our first fish came after about 10 mins ...
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: Rat-L Russ
Posted: 8/13/2007
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/13/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from a dock at Waitts early this morning. First time out here. Nice lake. Tried some spinnerbaits, poppers, and gulp worms for bass. Nothing. Switched gears and tried some Yum troutzilla on a s...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/16/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The wife and I headed up to Waitts to see if the Bass fishing was as good as the Trout and it was. Started out to the left side of the public launch and caught a few here and there, about half way up...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/22/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took our 2 grandson's out for an afternoon of fishing up at Waitts and had a blast even though we battled the wind and rain, thanks to our enclosure we stayed dry. The boyz boated 8 fish between the ...
By: ilv2fish
Posted: 9/14/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/12/2009
Hot Spots: 0
The wife and I decided we had enough of house remodeling projects and took the weekend off fishing! We thought we'd try a couple lakes that we haven't been too yet and Waitts was the first on the lis...
By: UncleBubba
Posted: 8/7/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/7/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Very surprising to find the trout biting all day long at Waitts this time of the year. Everything from pink power worms fished under a slip float at 25 ft down to corn to crawlers. Sliver Beach Resort...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/5/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake a little later than we expected but caught quite a few fish even though it was very windy. First we headed to the northwest lillies to do some bass fishing. Thought I'd try something ...
By: navy731
Posted: 8/31/2016
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/28/2016
Hot Spots: 1
It was a very warm day, but we had to use the day that we had off work. Picked up a few perch and bass, but no lunkers ! A lot of fun anyway .
By: perchboy
Posted: 8/5/2012
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Waitts about 7am and fished until noon. Trout were not hitting like they normally do as I trolled out to one of my favorite Perch fishing holes but I did manage to catch 3 browns that had the d...
By: Spazman2004
Posted: 2/11/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
So I was amazed to learn that waitts is open till feb 28 so yesterday I set out to go fish it through the ice ................. we arived around 9 am and found that my wife and I had forgot our sons h...
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: fullybuilt2.0
Posted: 2/13/2012
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Will stared on the ice around 11:30am. Things were slow for me at first because this was my first time here but I did do some homework on the lake the night before so I kind of had a idea where to fis...
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: 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: Airhof
Posted: 7/1/2010
Species:
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went out today and was not very pleased. Only caught one small bluegil that went back for next time. I was shore fishing with a buddy. Him bobber me floating worm/power bait. Throwing out from the boa...
By: Mike Hutsell
Posted: 6/8/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We didn't get on the water till 11am and fished till 5pm. It took awhile to find the fish but when we did we realy found them. I've been in perch poor all year and I wanted to put some in the freezer....
By: Mike Hutsell
Posted: 6/26/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The wife and I headed to Waitts lk. this morning around 10:00 am and fished till 4:00pm Had a pretty good day. Ended up with 39 perch nothing under 8" with quite a few at 9 1/2" but could not get that...
By: Mike Hutsell
Posted: 7/10/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Saturday morning I headed to Evans on Roosevelt. If there can be a bad day of fishing this was it. First thing I lost my super duper walleye rod and reel on a snag. Then my friends trolling battery we...
By: Mike Hutsell
Posted: 7/31/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/31/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Wanted to go to Evans but getting work done on the house so had to say close. Headed to Waitts to jerk some perch. The wife started out with a 18" Brown and a 14" rainbow and the she started on the pe...
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...
