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By: Uncle Bubba
Posted: 8/4/2015
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Staying at Silver Beach for a week. Very good fishing yesterday and this morning. Lots of action bait fishing with shoe peg corn with a mix of browns and rainbows. Largest rainbow was about 19" each m...
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: 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...
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: 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: 6/13/2008
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: 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: 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: bamofbam
Posted: 6/28/2009
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Heard Waitts was hitting pretty well so we decided to test our luck. We marked fish at about 20-30 feet deep and started jigging just as the sun went down. It was a beautiful night and we strarted c...
By: bamofbam
Posted: 6/29/2009
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well guys what do you think, silvers or no?
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: Uncle Bubba
Posted: 8/2/2018
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/1/2018
Hot Spots: 0
On our annual week long trip to Waitts fishing is as consistent as ever. Easy limits daily. Still fishing in 25-35 feet of water with shoe peg corn will give you good action on rainbows with a few bro...
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: riprap101
Posted: 4/29/2010
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Just a couple ordinary average anglers on a new body of water can make for an interesting day. Started out trolling on top, deep, and somewhere inbetween. Picked up one 18" rainbow on a muddler minnow...
Posted: 6/23/2008
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/21/2008
Hot Spots: 0
We got to the lake around 3:00 p.m. We decided to fish off the dock at Silver Beach Resort until about 8:00. After about 10 minutes, the rain started pouring and a thunderstorm came. Luckily, the stor...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/1/1968
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/1/1968
Hot Spots: 0
1955 through 1968
I've just become aware of your site, so I've decided to put a bit of a twist on your reports--a nostalgic twist.
Waitts Lake brings the fondest of memories to me from my childh...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/12/1998
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/12/1998
Hot Spots: 0
It was a cold rainy mouring in December hunting season was over
everybody was out shopping for x-mas.
It felt like the perfect time to get the line wet so I went to the local trout
lake to try my l...
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: 6/12/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/11/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Mom & Dad built a lake cabin on Waitts in 1958. They bought the lot from Dan VanDissel for $1750. Remember going to Silver Beach Resort at night in the early 60's to play pinball games and have hamb...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/3/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/11/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Been fishing this lake since 1984. My brother and I went out about 6:00 am and limited by 10:30 am. We used leaded line, a Les Davis string troll, a wedding ring, and a night crawler. A good combo ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/28/2006
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/28/2006
Hot Spots: 0
When I arrived at the lake, around 9:00 A.M., there was a thick cloud bank completely engulfing the entire lake. Visibility was only 50-100 yards. The fog didn't seem to bother the German Browns that ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/5/2007
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/5/2007
Hot Spots: 0
August 1951 Off to Waitts Lakewith Mother, Grandfather, Sisters and brothers,and a cousin all from Spokane. Was at that time the Best Bass fishing in the whole State [our opinion] Great fishing fo...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/29/2007
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/28/2007
Hot Spots: 0
We got there about 6 o clock in the evening and most "openers" were off the lake. We trolled around and got a lot of bites, and we ended up with 4 fish in the boat. All nice German Browns, the bigge...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/25/2004
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Rating: 2
Fished: 9/25/2004
Hot Spots: 0
I hit Waiits about 9 am, hoping the fish had woke up. I was float tubing and dragging wollybuggers and Carey specials around. I was marking fish around 10-15 feet deep but they ignored my offerings. A...
