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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: 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: Fishingdve
Posted: 4/25/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/24/2016
Hot Spots: 1
My buddy and I went out to Waitts on Sunday to try out our new downriggers. The fish were suspended about 25 feet down which made it pretty easy to get too them. We started about 10:00 and fished u...
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: 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: taimun2001
Posted: 5/9/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/8/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Second day in a row on waitts. We started about 8am under heavy fog- probably couldn’t see more than 8-10 feet in front of us. We immerse started marking small fish at around 11-16 FOW. I had three ro...
By: bonanzamel
Posted: 7/20/2022
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/18/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Had some relatives in town so I went to my most reliable lake for some fishing fun. Waitts never disappoints. Launched about six pm and started trolling right out of the launch. Had bites immediate...
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: perchboy
Posted: 8/19/2012
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the Lake at 8:00 a.m. and started trolling for trout up the west undeveloped side toward my favorite Perch spot. I did not get a single hit for the first half hour using a green trolling fly wi...
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: 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: kalous1
Posted: 9/26/2009
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out about 700am off the water by 130pm i cought 40 perch my pardner cought 36 we released alot of dinks kept the above the bite was crazy
By: Big Jerm
Posted: 6/2/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
A buddy and I caught probably around 40 to 50 Large mouth. The morning started out pretty fast. I had a fish on the second cast sight fishing the flats. It was pretty fun to see the fish then cast i...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/13/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/13/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Spent the afternoon on the lake the fishing was good but the wind was strong. My son and I caught 4 good sized bass each and had a good time. The weeds are starting to get thick and patchy, The bass w...
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: 5/4/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2008
Hot Spots: 3
Hit the lake at about noon. Very nice day on the water caught 3 bass about 2 lbs each fishing the docks. It was a good day! On the way back to the launch we saw a large boat with one paddle SLOWWWLY m...
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: 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: morgan.lee12
Posted: 1/12/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Had my wife buy us a boat while I was in Afghanistan. I was a little concerned about what kind of shape it was going to be in when I got back, however, it ran great and I was able to do some bass fish...
