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By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/16/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/16/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Sunny day, why not try for a tagged trout before end of the season. Fished the lake mid day, caught 2 small trout. On my last pass hooked onto a snag, so I thought, found two rods and reels at the end...
By: Sideburns
Posted: 9/11/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/11/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Trolled lake wilderness this morning with my dad. Weren't really looking for any specific species, but I knew this lake had been stocked with trout and kokanee fry for many years Trolled through som...
By: NineFingerFury
Posted: 6/1/2016
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/1/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Fished the area near the lodge where there is quite a bit of grass and logs with a football head jig - nothing. Moved my way over to the dock as it was empty and tossed out a green pumpkin Stick-O. Go...
By: labeledsociety
Posted: 5/31/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Wilderness around 5:30pm for some shore fishing. Casted out 30 to 40' offshore. Had no luck or bites. Did talk to a couple that had caught 4 fish from a boat about the middle of the lake. ...
By: NineFingerFury
Posted: 5/26/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/26/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished off of the point like usual (near site #6) and had no luck for 2 hours. There were 4 other anglers on the point, also with no bites. One boat on the water - no bites. Headed to the dock to mix ...
By: NineFingerFury
Posted: 4/27/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Fished off of peninsula near boat launch again from 7-9am. There were about 6 other anglers on the shore, spread out. One of us was pulling in a fish at least every 5 minutes. Casted out about 30ft fr...
By: NineFingerFury
Posted: 4/25/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/25/2016
Hot Spots: 1
I arrived at Wilderness at 7am and fished until 9am. When I first arrived, I fished the area near the lodge from the bank. I had been there two days earlier during the derby and it seemed like an okay...
By: Sideburns
Posted: 4/25/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/25/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Fished the Lake Wilderness opening day derby with my wife, 2 daughters, 2 nephews, sister and parents...... One boat. We got a couple of top ten finishers last year, off the bottom with powerbait, ...
By: DjButler
Posted: 5/9/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/9/2014
Hot Spots: 0
My theme this year is fish a new lake that has Kokes and dont stop until you get one! Well it paid off. I fished bright and early (not so bright this morning) and used the same setup, green wiggle hoo...
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 5/6/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Tried Lake W for the first time ever. I was fishing off the swimming dock. I had one hit that I missed on a 5 foot leader casting straight out. Noticed a lot of weeds that would grab your sinker while...
By: DjButler
Posted: 5/4/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to try out a different lake today so I drove on down to Mapely Valley to fish Wilderness Lake. I was on the water and line wet at 7:15am. My target species was kokanee but they seemed to be no...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 6/18/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Wow! Today was interesting. I had all these lakes that I could have have entertained, but I heard some cool Intel. on Wilderness for LMB!
So I broke out of my Urban LMB fishing cycle. I went ...
By: WazzuBaker
Posted: 6/1/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got onto the water this morning by about 6:20 am, got my first fish within a 15-20 mins. It was a small guy maybe 6-8" in length. Maybe 1/2 hour later I hooked up again with an average size 12" stocke...
By: bryanpeck
Posted: 5/11/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Kidos wanted to partake of the Lake Wilderness trout derby for about 9th year in a row so we spent the opener there. Unfortunately, this year they changed the derby rules to prohibit having a gas moto...
By: go fish
Posted: 8/18/2012
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/15/2012
Hot Spots: 2
I cought and realesed over 35 blugill/perch in just 2 hours
By: Duck killer
Posted: 8/2/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/31/2012
Hot Spots: 3
I guess okay if you are catch and releasing, but don't plan on eating anything. I went for 5 hours and caught 4 rainbow trout. One was 12" and the rest were under 10". However, all of the fish were...
By: arrow1300
Posted: 7/9/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the Lake about 7:00am to my surprise only one boat in the water, thought nothing of it. Well later I found out why. Caught my first fish with in 20-30 minutes. Every fish had some type of peric...
By: Gwendylyn
Posted: 7/8/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
No fishes from shore.... The beaches were crazy busy so not having a boat sucked more than a little today. Didn't see anyone else pull anything in on shore but did see the jerks in boats pull a few =0...
By: Honucop
Posted: 7/7/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Trolling for Kokanee with wedding ring and worms. No Kokanees, though my buddy and limited out on rainbow trout. Took water temperature before we started fishing and it read about 60 degrees on the lo...
By: Lou Smith
Posted: 6/29/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/29/2012
Hot Spots: 3
The kokanee in Wilderness are wierd. They don't start biting until 0730-0800 and it gets better by noon! On the water at 0630 and tried to avoid the RBs. Water temp 66 degrees, cloudy and calm all mor...
By: yooper_fisher
Posted: 5/27/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/26/2012
Hot Spots: 1
I arrived at wilderness around 1800 to partly cloudy skies, and a little wind. I was surprised at how few people were out for a nice Saturday afternoon, but I'm not complaining. I started trolling acr...
By: yooper_fisher
Posted: 5/24/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at wilderness around 0900. Started fishing with my 4/0 dodger and silver wedding ring tipped with shoepeg corn and pink fire corn in around 20' of water straight out from the launch. While I w...
By: yooper_fisher
Posted: 5/22/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/22/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Hit up Wilderness again after doing some more reading on kok fishing. I arrived a little before 1400 and left a little before 1700. I was fishing with a 4/0 silver UV dodger with a red wedding ring wi...
By: yooper_fisher
Posted: 5/18/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Finally! I got a Kok!
I arrived at the lake around 0700 and went out to meet WA Lake member Lou Smith (who was already fishing). We talked for a bit and he gave me advice on kokanee fishing that re...
By: yooper_fisher
Posted: 5/17/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/17/2012
Hot Spots: 1
I headed to wilderness this morning in hopes of getting a kokanee or two, no luck! But the trout were a little too cooperative. I fished from the surface down to 19' with a 4/0 silver UV dodger with e...