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By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 10/18/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/17/2019
Hot Spots: 0
The forecast turned out to be wrong and despite warnings of wind and rain sunshine and a mirror like lake prevailed. I took advantage of this beautiful fall day to target some Rainbow Trout in this ul...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 5/28/2010
Species: Crappie
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I had to go into Manson on Thursday morning, so I put in the fishing rod and my bobber box with some jigs to try a few casts at a couple of the local lakes. On the way home from Manson I stopped off a...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 5/1/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/28/2012
Hot Spots: 2
This report is for both Sat. 4/28 and Sun. 4/29, on opening weekend. It was a very good year. On Sat, I got on the water about 06:00. Started getting solid strikes while pulling away from the boat lau...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 7/13/2012
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to scout out the panfishing in Wapato after finishing a morning project. Launched around 12:30ish and started around the southeast side. Water temp was 82* and the sun was HOT. No one else cr...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 10/10/2017
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/8/2017
Hot Spots: 0
The cool weather has already got me thinking about ice fishing. I primarily target Yellow Perch thru the ice and enjoy fishing for them. This got me thinking, why not fish for them now? Last week afte...
By: biverson
Posted: 1/20/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/20/2019
Hot Spots: 0
One fish limit for Chinook on Wapato, so even poor fishing is a total success. Boated a 25" Chinook out in the middle of the lake out from the State Park, downrigger at 200 feet in 350 feet of water....
By: pcisko
Posted: 5/29/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had a good day at Wapato lake. Caught 7 trout in about 3.5 hrs with me and a few kids. Fish were large rainbows average about 1.5lbs and 16 -18 inch triploids, Fished from the bank on the West side of...
By: taytayz008
Posted: 8/10/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well, camping at Wapato and decided to fish. I used my Rapala D-T Firetiger lure and fished by the reeds. Found a pretty good spot, Second cast I hooked a bass, about 9 inches. Was taking him back to ...
By: Toddy18
Posted: 7/14/2010
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Howdy fellow fishermen and fisherwomen.
Went up to Wapato lake Sat. morning early with my stepdad Jim and boy the Crappie were crazy. We launched at about 6:00am with partly cloudy ski...
By: schmaltzy
Posted: 5/7/2007
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Wapato Lake all weekend, I would recommend it to anyone. Fished for Largemouth Bass on a couple of the days pulling in a 5lb+ in the reeds with a brown and green jig and pig. They were continuo...
By: schriest
Posted: 5/8/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2007
Hot Spots: 0
We started out trolling from the Kamei boat launch on Wapato lake at about 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 5th. After 90 minutes and only one fish between three of us, we decided to change tactics. We spo...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 9/17/2014
Species: Crappie
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
09/16/14
Finished up an “around the house” project, and decided to go fishing. As I had caught crappie at Roses last week, I thought to hit Wapato today and switch over to Roses if the action was slo...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/22/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
This was our 12th annual fishing trip to Wapato where we have fished the same weekend every year. We fish hard (peer pressure) from 6:30 a.m. until Noon and this year we had 15 guys fishing and caugh...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 8/2/2018
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/2/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Was getting tired of Sockeye and Kokanee and needed to add some variety to the freezer. Slept in and lazily got to the lake around 8 AM. Quickly found very large schools of perch in 15-30' of water. I...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 9/4/2016
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Two day fishing report for WAPATO
Spiny Ray at it's best. Hello everyone, It's been quite some time since I've taken the time post a report SO here goes.
My fishing pard and wife of "Many" years hav...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 9/7/2016
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Awesome day on the water, Again..
Had another day off, so after morning coffee Cindy and I hooked up the boat and headed over to Wapato to enjoy a sunny day on the water. utilized Jigs with Plastic B...
By: Jordan
Posted: 6/2/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Trying to catch perch and crappie with jigs but all we could catch were 14" football shaped Rainbows... could have caught a limit of 10 between two people in 30 mins... but moved on to try more for so...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 6/13/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Our family went to Wapato to enjoy the first really nice weather of the late spring/early summer. We caught a few perch, crappie, and bluegill. The largemouth were real busy cruising the shallows. ...
By: quepollo1
Posted: 4/28/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to relax and hit wine country with the misses and eventually ended up at wapato lake. Rented a boat and played around for a while and landed my first ever rainbow trout. it was about 13 inches...
By: EXFFPM
Posted: 5/7/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Eleven guys fishing this year, down from 14, due to commitments and poor catch numbers in past two years. We fished from daylight until Noon on Saturday for the ninth year in a row with marginal impr...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 5/28/2009
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got off work early on Wed evening, Hooked up to the boat, and wife and I headed to Wapato to check out the water for a couple hours. First time on lake this year. Water temp was 60-63F and weed growth...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 6/4/2009
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/4/2009
Hot Spots: 3
Fished Wapato from around 1300 - 1630, trying for the yellow perch. Used Small plastig grubs, minnow immitation, crappie tubes, spoons, plugs, and even the lowly night crawler. Lots of perch observed...
By: EXFFPM
Posted: 5/20/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fourteen guys been fishing this lake this same week for eight years straight. We caught eight (8) trout TOTAL from daylight 'till noon on Saturday , May 17th. Pressure was on among us, so we were...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 4/25/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Stopped at the upper end of Wapato (pond) and cast out using a 1/16 oz jig with a power maggot/meal worm. Cindy caught the first bass of the season. The area must have been the nursery, cause we caugh...
By: Jordan
Posted: 8/4/2009
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
With a couple of friends caught a number of perch. a couple bluegill and pumpkinseed too! but was a great day and definately on eof my favorite lakes to fish!
