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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/24/2004
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/24/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing this weekend was fantastic! All of the trout were keepable, but my stringer sported a 17" keep over. My smallest was 13", and the other three fell in-between. The smaller trout put up a great ...
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...
By: schriest
Posted: 5/8/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2007
Hot Spots: 0
We started out trolling from the Kamei boat launch on Wapato lake at about 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 5th. After 90 minutes and only one fish between three of us, we decided to change tactics. We spo...
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: 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...
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: 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: 4/26/2010
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: 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...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...
