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By: HammerinHonkers
Posted: 4/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well this opener sucked. Bad. We fished sat and sun and between 5 guys caught 8 fish. I am used to catching 30-40 fish a day there on the opener. I have no idea why this happened or if the stock d...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 4/30/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Here is my report from the Wapato opener for last Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Fishing was a lot slower than the previous two years. We got there Saturday evening, and caught none that night, heard i...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 4/27/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/25/2009
Hot Spots: 1
4th annual trip to Wapato was very productive this year. Much better than last year. I myself did not catch a ton, but others in my party did. And all around the lake were people catching fish.
I c...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 4/26/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Opening day at Wapato Lake, report 1 of 3. Was quite windy on the first day, but not too cold otherwise, and mostly sunny. Started out trolling a #2 pink-blue-silver vibrax blue fox. I was getting str...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 4/26/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Opening weekend at Wapato Lake, report 1 of 3. Was less windy on the second day, not too cold, and mostly sunny. Did not have much luck this day, but did manage to boat one fish on a black roosterstai...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 4/26/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Opening weekend at Wapato Lake, report 3 of 3. Very little wind on the third day, mostly sunny and pretty warm. Started out with the green then black roostertail that had worked in the previous two da...
By: Stein
Posted: 5/1/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/28/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I never miss opening day on Wapato, but I could have done without this one. The wind was howling which turned my 12 foot Alum. boat into a mere piece of flotsam. With determination and considerable c...
Posted: 7/20/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got to do a change of pace and fished Wapato for 2 hours with neighbors Donn and Pepe' of Blueberry Hills fame. We fished the 55 to 60 feet deep water about 20 to 25 feet down with blue and white flo...
By: urbanangler
Posted: 5/2/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2011
Hot Spots: 1
This report covers both Saturday 4/30 and Sunday 5/1. Sixth annual trek to Wapato lake for its trout opener. It was a good year. Would have been nice to catch more fish on Sunday, but others in my bo...
By: chantaclair
Posted: 7/11/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
man what a sunday ! went to wopato sat. night camped by entiat . got up around 5 a m and headed out to wopato around 730 ish . arived at kamei campground around 9 and had to rent a battery b-cause i f...
By: MotoBoat
Posted: 5/2/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Annual Father/son opening day fishing trip. Air temp 50-55 at 9am, supposed to climb to 70 degrees for a high. Water temp was between 49 and 53. I and my Dad had started fishing around 8:00am. We we...
By: MarkFromSea
Posted: 5/2/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Wapato Mon evening. It was pretty windy! One gust picked the front end of the boat up a bit. That was unnerving to say the least. Lots of heavy strikes but only pulled in a couple of football s...
By: guyara
Posted: 5/7/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/7/2012
Hot Spots: 1
It was a beautiful morning but the fish were just not biting much. We saw a couple small trout caught from a distance. This big Bass was along the shoreline as were many Perch we could see in about te...
By: hailthesenko
Posted: 4/27/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Seen lots of fish caught off pop gear and wedding rings, nothing of much size. Decided to try using a chartreuse power worm and caught about ten in 1 hour.. I used 3/8 oz egg weight, barrel swivel, an...
By: Dayglowspoon
Posted: 5/5/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/3/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Chelan on Saturday was too rough for my little boat. Decided to check out some of the other little lakes that are near Lake Chelan. Trout were very cooperative. Fished with downriggers as we couldn't ...
By: MotoBoat
Posted: 6/17/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/13/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Usually fish this lake with dad, during the general opener. This year we did not make it until Fathers day weekend. Arrived at the lake at 1:00pm, heavy winds, white caps, raining consistently. Parkin...
By: MotoBoat
Posted: 6/17/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Left Lake Chelan, arrived at Wapato lake at around 3:00pm. Again to heavy winds, white caps, the consolation prize being no rain!. Was definitely blowing a consistent 20mph. Parking lot had 3 vehicles...
By: MotoBoat
Posted: 4/28/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I have fished Wapato Lake with my dad, on opening day for several years in a row, and have not experienced the lake in such fine form.
Once again, a 14ft aluminum boat, with two passengers capsize...
By: Gringo Pescador
Posted: 5/4/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The family wanted to go out on the boat and since they aren't the early morning types and we had to check out of the hotel by 11 I decided we would forgo Chelan and hit Wapato up for a little boat rid...
Posted: 5/9/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Mike Wilson of the bustling metropolis of Spangle managed to get his aging body out of bed to go fishing with Sebastian and me. We limited in about 2 hours of fishing. Little 1/8 ounce Chartreuse Ro...
Posted: 5/13/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/12/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I wanted to work on some light tackle trolling technique for those acrobatic Wapato Lake 'Bows so invited Pepe' and Al out. We worked the drop off the cattails at the Kamei end of the pond in depths ...
By: bigdaddy3769
Posted: 5/31/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/27/2016
Hot Spots: 1
I fished Chelan many times as a kid but never went to the Manson side and fished Wapato. Me and the boy hit the lake at about 8am and rented a boat from the campground. I set us up with 1/2oz egg si...
By: franzjmartin
Posted: 6/26/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/26/2016
Hot Spots: 1
I was over in Chelan for a bike event on Saturday and diced to stay the weekend to do some fishing. I only have an inflatable kayak so I didn't want to hit the big lake and after some research picked...
By: lohans4
Posted: 8/11/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/10/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Dropped the wife off at the casino and headed to Wapato to try for a few fish & maybe some crawfish. My golfing friend said there were some huge crawfish in the lake. Never got a one with 3 pots out b...
By: 502300
Posted: 10/13/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/13/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We thought we had this lake figured out. Started trolling with the down rigger at 40 feet. Hooked 1 after an hour. Kept on trolling caught 1 on the flat lining rod as we were letting line out, a very ...
