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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...
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: 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...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...
