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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: 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: 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 ...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...
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 ...
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...
By: fishnislife
Posted: 5/5/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
What a hidden gem of a lake. If I lived anywhere near this lake I would definitely be spending some hours on the water chasing largemouth.
At the Wapato store there were plenty of pictures of nice h...
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...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: MotoBoat
Posted: 4/29/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/27/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Annual opening day trout trip with dear ol' Dad. Started by 8am. Calm wind, made passing the Lake Chelan ramp at Mill Bay, real difficult!. That was short lived. Caught and released several fish on l...
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: 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: 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: 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...