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By: Jasper Casbeer
Posted: 6/12/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/11/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Hello All,
Another great day on the Swift. Same rig as last time, dipsy diver, wobbler, and hoochie. Still never left the channel just passed the launch. Can do 12 to 14 inch rainbows all day long....
By: Jasper Casbeer
Posted: 6/6/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/3/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Finally have my boat in the water. Bought a fixer upper last year and it has hit water for the last two weekends. Avid fisherman, but always from the bank. Grabbed my Son and headed to the swift on th...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/30/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/28/2016
Hot Spots: 1
I don’t normally trout fish late in the season, but when I saw my friend Luke Hatfield’s recent Swift Reservoir report my interest shot way up. The lake is fishing incredibly good as it winds down to ...
By: Jollyroger
Posted: 11/13/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/9/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Fishing was great all day! Fished long line 125ft back with les Davis half and half and an orange wedding ring on a 30 inch leader. Tipped with shrimp eggs. Caught fish all day in the 13 to 15 inch ra...
By: Old guy Jess
Posted: 11/7/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
We got out on the water real early... you know, 'bout 8:30.
Tried the channels on both sides of the island without much luck and decided to go east to the mouth of the river. Water temp was about 52...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/17/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Started trolling with basic trout gear, ford fenders and wedding rings tipped with pieces of worm. Hit a few trout and a couple of kokonee, but nothing big. Anchored inside the reservior area outsid...
By: nigrov23
Posted: 7/16/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/7/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Went up to Eagle Cliff Bridge past Swift Reservoir early in the morning. Started with a pink and silver Blue Fox and caught two decent sized rainbows (10 in.). After a while that was working so well, ...
By: Jojoe
Posted: 6/13/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Made an early start on Swift at 6am from the boat ramp. My first time to fish from a boat and my buddy has done so several times. Right off the bat from the launch we were into fish, as we started t...
By: AnglersRevenge
Posted: 5/2/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
went to swift today, got a late start and got there around 10 and was in the water at 10:20 and the first fish on the bank 10min later, the fishing stayed pretty consistent throughout the day, the fis...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/2/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It was a pretty good day, was with my friends we caught so many it was a lot of fun but didnt keep them all but great tasting! there were two trout in there and the rest landlock coho, with pink meat....
By: 500kvfun
Posted: 10/26/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Wow what a great day to be on the lake. The water has dropped almost past the dock making launching a bit harder. The fishing was awsome. Most of the fish were in the 10-12 inch range with a couple ...
By: flyfisherguy
Posted: 10/26/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Ever have one of those days? Made it to the lake a lot later than I had planned, around 2:30 pm. Swift is definately dropping, I was told by some people in a RV that it had dropped 18 inches since the...
By: 500kvfun
Posted: 10/8/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the lake a little after noon, had our first fish on a few minutes later. Had our best luck between the dam and swift creek. Water levels are still high enough to allow for great fishing. Good ...
By: 500kvfun
Posted: 9/29/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled at about 20-40 feet and caught fish all day long. A flasher with a wedding ring tipped with
a night crawler worked great, also used a flasher with a black and/or brown wooley booger fly
al...
By: Dillpepsi123
Posted: 4/26/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Swift at about noon and caught our limit in about an hour and a half using worms on the bottom. Good fun, hope to be back soon.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/23/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
My wife and I arrived at the lake around noon. We first tried fishing in the mouth of the Lewis river with power bait and then worms both fished on the bottom. My wife caught one nice bow on a worm; a...
By: Big Fisher
Posted: 6/2/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Wow Fishing from the dam was REAL good today. Got all ten fish the wife and I in 2 hours. Sized 11 to 14 inch. Walked o the FAR side of the dam. Was lots of jumpers. Used a bobber with the leader at 5...
By: Dillpepsi123
Posted: 5/7/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/7/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I got to swift and fished the power canal for about an hour and didnt catch a thing! Then I went to the reservoir and fished with a silver spoon, silver spinner, kastmaster, rooster tail, and a tasman...
By: cedrick
Posted: 5/6/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I went up to the Eagle cliff side of Swift Reservoir late in the evening and walked down toward the mouth. I only had an hour to fish. I wasn't completely clear on where the Special Gear Regs ended do...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/5/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 10/5/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled at Swift on 9/10/06 and also 2 Sat. before- both times trout catching was great! We used all kinds of Needlefish and small spoons like Kastmasters and TripleTeasers, trolling down 20ft. deep w...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/4/2006
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/31/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Today, i fished with worms and spinners at swift with my two cousins and one friend and all together we caught 19 squawfish with worms with the biggest being 15 inches and they gave up a pretty good f...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/11/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/7/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was hot using a purple jig of the far side of the dam. I caught about 20 rainbows that were just stocked, they were good size. Some were about 2 pounds if you were lucky. My buddy caught about...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/30/2006
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Fished off of the main boat dock at the Northwoods with powerbait (didn't seem to matter what color) and nailed consistent 10" - 14" Rainbow planters. There are tons of fish in this lake and not many ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/24/2002
Species:
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/24/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Fished by the dam and it was pretty quiet. The lake was calm and floating wood was minimal except at the ramp. Unbelievable amount of wood in the ramp area. It made it difficult to load your boat w...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/12/2001
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/12/2001
Hot Spots: 0
We started to fish at about six 0'clock. I brought my little raft out on the reservoir. We got rooster tails with gold spinners. Next we let our lures drag behind us, as we paddled around. When w...
