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By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 9/5/2013
Species: Catfish
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/15/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This report is really late-- but figured I'd submit it for historical reference. I fished Swofford Pond twice in August-- on the 1st and 15th from approximately 7:30-10:30 pm. With a friend on the 1st...
By: Rickcunha
Posted: 3/7/2014
Species: Catfish
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
We'll I decided to go out and try for some channel cats on feb 28 at about 6 in the evening and as soon as I got there. There was plenty of action got some nice sized trout and a couple nice perch. An...
By: catfish4ram
Posted: 3/15/2014
Species: Catfish
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I fished swofford pond from 10am until 2pm with my daughter & a buddy. We fished for catfish with worms on the bottom, with a size 1 hook 20 inch leader & 1 ounce slider. We only caught 1 bullhead cat...
By: cbarlow253
Posted: 5/25/2013
Species: Catfish
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I have fished this pond several times from the shore years back when you could camp along the shore. This weeknd will be the first time myself and a few buddy's will launch a boat. I am looking to see...
By: bionic_one
Posted: 5/10/2010
Species: Catfish
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Girlfriend and I went Camping at Mossyrock, and she wanted to catch Catfish, so we went to Swofford Friday night. I mostly kept myself entertained while she fished for, and caught a little channel ca...
By: leahcim_dahc
Posted: 9/2/2007
Species: Catfish
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/1/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Great day at Swofford Pond. Fairly slow most of the day with small Bluegills being caught. Once night fell, started to fish for Catfish. Caught a nice sized Bullhead, which is a personal record with r...
By: Rmcdonald
Posted: 3/27/2016
Species: Catfish
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/26/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished swofford pond in mossy rock with 2 of my buddies today. Started fishing at 10 a.m. & fished until 3 pm. Started out fishing for catfish with chicken livers, sand shrimp & nightcrawlers but afte...
By: baiowolph
Posted: 6/6/2016
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/5/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We headed down the pass from Dog Lake and hit Swofford Pond to see if we could get a few panfish. Arriving about 9 am, we had the boat in the water by 9:30. We tried a few spinners and spoons with no ...
Posted: 7/25/2010
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I have been in Vancouver all week helping out my parents and got a break on sunday so I decided to head to Swofford Pond!!
I haven't fished here since 2007 but from what I remember the fishing is AWE...
By: la
Posted: 7/30/2010
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to swofford pond looking for big gills on my third cast I landed a real monster it was 11in in length and girth was 11in it's weight was 1lb.8oz i'm getting it mounted i wish I knew how to down l...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 5/28/2012
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Swofford Pond from about 5:30-8:30pm using a red tube tipped with a wax worm, typically under a bobber. I caught probably a dozen small bluegill, one averaged sized black crappie, and one lar...
By: nwtoolman
Posted: 5/26/2013
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Had the itch to catch some blue gill. Used mostly night crawler and bobber. The trout in this pond are viscous caught a couple larger ones. However we were targeting blue gill found a few big ones. Ov...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/11/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/11/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing in the afternoon, too hot, but still caught lots of small perch and two rainbows 12". Fished for catfish that night, not even a bite. Next morning, same thing, lots of perch, but also ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/3/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/3/2003
Hot Spots: 0
We arrived at the pond at 7:30AM. We fished until 2:00PM and caught 8 nice size (10 to 12 inchers). The main reason I liked this pond was it seemed the fish ere fought pretty good, but today was dif...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/31/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/31/2002
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I fished Swafford on Friday night, Saturday morning, and Saturday night. We had heard from the locals about the huge catfish in there and decided to give it a go. Friday night we got there ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/25/2002
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Rating: 2
Fished: 6/25/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Went for a late afternoon fish, stayed for late night catfishing under a full moon. Hooked several bass, perch, trout and blue gills, nothing worth keeping except one rainbow that was marginal. I didn...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/14/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 6/14/2002
Hot Spots: 0
I saw one trout chasing fingerlings along the shore but that was it. I tried fishing for crappie as well but no action whatsoever.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/31/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 5/31/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Just to follow up on the last report talking about the dead fish. I was there 5-31-02 and saw the same thing. Near the spillway were several dead BULLHEADS. Not to be confused with the long ago stocke...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/1/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 6/1/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Got to lake about 4pm on at 06/01/02 and right away we knew something was very wrong. The lake had a bad smell and several dead fish floating near the boat ramp. We had fished there the weekend before...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/1/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Fished at the end where it feeds into Riffe Lake. Fished off the bottom using Powerbait, Chartruse & Pink mixed with about 1.5 foot liter. Caught 3 nice 12 inchers and 1 smaller 10 inch Rainbow.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/26/2001
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Rating: 2
Fished: 6/26/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Only fished for an hour, casting combos of worms, corn and/or shrimp. Dad got zilch and I caught 1 rainbow about 10 or 11 inches. The weeds are really growing up from the bottom and we were getting ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/12/2001
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Rating: 2
Fished: 4/12/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Swofford Pond for few hours on bank. Using worm and bobber got
6 bites and one dink of a trout! Hear they planted it, but those fish
are dinks!! Lots of surface feeding going on. Better if...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/6/2001
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Rating: 2
Fished: 3/6/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around 9:00pm and set up for some channel catfishing. This little lake is open year round and some of the biggest cats are caught here. I used to go all the time and catch between 10...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/5/2001
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Rating: 3
Fished: 3/5/2001
Hot Spots: 0
We arrived at the pond around 11 am. Around 11:15 am my wife had
caught her first fish of 2001, a nice 13 inch trout with a little
bit of fat on it's body. At 1130 I caught 2 trout one was 15 and
o...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/25/2001
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Rating: 2
Fished: 2/25/2001
Hot Spots: 0
My son and myself made the trip to Riffe lake but the water was way too low to launch anything more than a float tube so we fished Swofford pond instead. Trolled for 3.5 hours with the most of our 3 b...