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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: 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: 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: 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: 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...
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: 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: blufin loui
Posted: 7/3/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
After having lunch and a rest, we headed over to Wapato to check out the Spiny Rays. We thought to hit wapato instead of Roses because we thought Wapato would have less big boat traffic. WRONG!! The...
By: blufin loui
Posted: 6/18/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Cindy and I had the day off, so put the boat in at Wapato Lake around 1030 or so. Slight breeze, partly cloudy and upper 60s. Used 16 oz jig heads with the Berkly Power nymphs to catch a mess of Yello...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Jordan
Posted: 8/4/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2009
Hot Spots: 0
caught a few nice fat largies... nothin super big but decent sized also caught a couple perch and a few annoying bluegill and pumpkinseed.. o well! fun evening! will be back soon!
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!
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...