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By: schu7498
Posted: 10/6/2024
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/5/2024
Hot Spots: 0
First time at Waitts lake and we stayed at Waitts lake resort. Super lovely place to stay. It seemed like a very quiet weekend on the lake. We took the girls out on the resort dock to do a little fish...
By: bonanzamel
Posted: 7/20/2022
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/18/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Had some relatives in town so I went to my most reliable lake for some fishing fun. Waitts never disappoints. Launched about six pm and started trolling right out of the launch. Had bites immediate...
By: taimun2001
Posted: 5/9/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/8/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Second day in a row on waitts. We started about 8am under heavy fog- probably couldn’t see more than 8-10 feet in front of us. We immerse started marking small fish at around 11-16 FOW. I had three ro...
By: FishPharm
Posted: 1/6/2020
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/5/2020
Hot Spots: 1
We trolled worm harnesses with flashers along with a flicker shad to pick up quick limits. The rainbows and browns were both active with about even numbers of each being caught. Most of our fish were ...
By: FisherKendall
Posted: 8/12/2019
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/10/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I took the family out to Waitts lake this weekend for a fishing and boating trip, and we stayed over at Winona Beach Resort. This is our first year with a boat, so I was excited to see what Waitts had...
By: rpolensky
Posted: 5/6/2019
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/5/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 7:30am to 12:30pm. Trolled 5 different lines with 5 different setups. Changed setups after trolling thru fish with no bites. Only ended up with (1) 1.5lb Brown and (3) throw back rainbows....
By: Uncle Bubba
Posted: 8/2/2018
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/1/2018
Hot Spots: 0
On our annual week long trip to Waitts fishing is as consistent as ever. Easy limits daily. Still fishing in 25-35 feet of water with shoe peg corn will give you good action on rainbows with a few bro...
By: navy731
Posted: 8/31/2016
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/28/2016
Hot Spots: 1
It was a very warm day, but we had to use the day that we had off work. Picked up a few perch and bass, but no lunkers ! A lot of fun anyway .
By: Fishingdve
Posted: 4/25/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/24/2016
Hot Spots: 1
My buddy and I went out to Waitts on Sunday to try out our new downriggers. The fish were suspended about 25 feet down which made it pretty easy to get too them. We started about 10:00 and fished u...
By: Uncle Bubba
Posted: 8/4/2015
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Staying at Silver Beach for a week. Very good fishing yesterday and this morning. Lots of action bait fishing with shoe peg corn with a mix of browns and rainbows. Largest rainbow was about 19" each m...
By: Fishingdve
Posted: 6/29/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Friend and I took our wives out for some night fishing after the heat of the day on Saturday. We arrived about 9:00 and fished along the West End of the lake in about 38ft. of water. We caught goo...
By: blane956
Posted: 9/3/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/29/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Took the wife and little one out to Waitts lake to try night fishing. Have not night fished a lot, but I have heard that Waitts is a good one for it. Had a blast. We were targeting perch, but did not ...
By: buzzard
Posted: 2/9/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
took several trout through the ice, 3 rainbows,2 browns largest rainbow was 21 inches using corn on a #8 hook mid morning, fishing has been real good limited out 4 out of the last 5 times i have went ...
By: CoyoteCrazy
Posted: 11/23/2013
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/23/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Braved the 16* cold this morning to try for some big browns up at Waitts. Some duck hunters welcomed our arrival with a couple volleys at the numerous ducks. Our first fish came after about 10 mins ...
By: UncleBubba
Posted: 8/7/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/7/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Very surprising to find the trout biting all day long at Waitts this time of the year. Everything from pink power worms fished under a slip float at 25 ft down to corn to crawlers. Sliver Beach Resort...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 4/27/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Great opening day. Only a little crazy at the ramp! Arrived at 7:00AM and had three limits by 10:30. 8 browns, 5 planter bowes and two brooder stocked jumbos. All in all a great morning. Red wedd...
By: morgan.lee12
Posted: 1/12/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Had my wife buy us a boat while I was in Afghanistan. I was a little concerned about what kind of shape it was going to be in when I got back, however, it ran great and I was able to do some bass fish...
By: perchboy
Posted: 8/19/2012
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the Lake at 8:00 a.m. and started trolling for trout up the west undeveloped side toward my favorite Perch spot. I did not get a single hit for the first half hour using a green trolling fly wi...
By: perchboy
Posted: 8/5/2012
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Waitts about 7am and fished until noon. Trout were not hitting like they normally do as I trolled out to one of my favorite Perch fishing holes but I did manage to catch 3 browns that had the d...
By: ilv2fish
Posted: 6/20/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/20/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Took the wife up to Waitts to get her fill of trout fishing but ended up doing more bass fishing due to afternoon winds effecting boat control. Even though the bass are in spawn mode I managed to pick...
By: 509Pikey
Posted: 5/27/2012
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Launched kind of late at 8:30. Within 25the yds of the launch started marking fish. We started with a wedding ring and an F5 flatfish on downriggers and rippin minnows on planer boards. Picked up fish...
By: dabears
Posted: 5/13/2012
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/13/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Trolled from 11:00 am till 4:00pm. Caught over a dozen fish, mostly rainbows and a couple browns. Nice sunny day with very little wind. Most of the fish were caught on wedding rings and hot shots.
By: ifish4ever
Posted: 5/1/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/30/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Took the kids fishing for Trout on Waitts Sunday. We trolled spinners and easily caught our limits or Browns and Rainbows at depths of 10 to 20'.
By: ifish4ever
Posted: 5/1/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/29/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Took my kids to Waitts on Sunday (4-29) for limits of Trout (Browns and Rainbows). Trolled spinners with nightcrawlers on downriggers and lead core. Fished from 10-25' and caught fish at most depths. ...
By: Chengy87
Posted: 2/18/2012
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
had a good day at the lake today. Between me and my grandpa we caught 7 fishes. I caught two real nice browns approximately 19-20 inches. My grandpa caught 2 really nice ones roughly around the same s...