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By: Rob G.
Posted: 5/1/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2008
Hot Spots: 1
I did my day after the opener thing at Wilderness and did ok. Limited out, but the highlight was seeing a HUGE BASS! I mean no less than 2ft long and FAT. Biggest bass I've ever seen in my life. That ...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 4/30/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
First time on this nice clear lake.
I quickly realized I forgot all my lures at home so I was stuck with digging up a couple of Salmon lures to try. I started out with the largest size gold Dick N...
By: Duke98248
Posted: 4/29/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
We started out like many others there for the Derby, about 12:30 AM. Cold and just enough boats on the water to make it interesting to get around. After a couple hours and no bites we went in for brea...
By: crankbait42
Posted: 4/28/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
went to wilderness opening day. would have wrote a report earlier but had trouble becoming a member. well me my dad and my brother got out to the lake at about 4:30 but my dad and brother got kinda s...
By: aerobar2
Posted: 4/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
After starting out on Lake Meridian and hardly getting a bite, we decided to head out to Lake Wilderness. We hit the water about noon and 10 minutes later had landed the grandfather of trout - 20 inc...
By: sixstar
Posted: 4/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Took the kids out for opening day on lake wilderness. Got there at 7am. Lake was packed with boats. Had no problem launching since everyone was already there. Fished for 3 hours. Kids had a blast...
By: patfitting
Posted: 4/26/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 2
went out to wilderness today at four thirty in the morning to get a good spot. opening day and really crowded. as with all lakes you can't go wrong with power eggs. went with my dad , my friend, un...
By: nvrggivup
Posted: 11/5/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/31/2007
Hot Spots: 0
last day at wilderness got there about 1pm to dark...caught at least 12 but lost count so I am not sure of total.
used power eggs on the bottom, color didn't seem to matter. was surprised the trout ...
By: Rob G.
Posted: 10/15/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/13/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Well boys, Lk Wilderness does it again. Hit my spot up; east side north of the launch. Same old recipe Mikes orange garlic mellows, half, I say half of a night crawler! Small Gomakatsu hooks. Works...
By: Rob G.
Posted: 9/18/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Great day at Wilderness. I took all four of my boys fishing last Saturday. We hit the lake about 9AM. I usually like to troll using a hot shot or triple teaser, no pop gear because I feel like I'm f...
By: Lou
Posted: 8/14/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/13/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at wilderness around 5pm, left at dusk. Trolled most of the time with a flatfish trying different baits. Fake worms had about the same number of strikes as real worms, but fake worms lasted ...
By: Lou
Posted: 8/6/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake around 5:00pm to get a little more calm fishing before the derby on saturday (salt-water report for Area 11) and trolled with my favorite flatfish tiped with both fake and real worms. Th...
By: Lou
Posted: 7/13/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/12/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around 5, left at 8. Trip started off with me forgetting my motor at home, so we decided to troll with oars. Next, my buddy picked up one of those floating snails we see every once i...
By: Rob G.
Posted: 7/12/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/12/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I was going to go to the driving range until my wife informed me she had plans, so me and my 4 sons, that's right four boys 8, 6, 4, and 3 went to Wilderness. Got the boat in the water at about 7:30....
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/10/2007
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Rating: 1
Fished: 7/10/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Third time fishing this lake in the last three weeks from the shore... Seems that the only folks really catching anything are trolling...
By: Lou
Posted: 7/10/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/10/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived around 6pm, trolled wedding rings till 9pm. Caught 3 at ~10" and one around 4". All were caught in first hour. Great day to be out.
-Lou
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/30/2007
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Rating: 2
Fished: 6/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went to lake wilderness but didn't get anything. guy next to us reeled in a nice 18 incher, also wasn't good because there was a girl swimming in the fishing area.. they have a swimming area at the la...
By: fishin masta
Posted: 6/17/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished around 6 or so, used orange and green power eggs with about a 5 ft leader. casting out pretty far and hitting bottom. didn't get anything people just leaving had a nice one probably 14 ,15 inc...
By: fishin masta
Posted: 5/21/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/20/2007
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy and I went out to the lake Sat. and Sun. Caught 10 fish both days. Smallest was about 7 or 8 inches. Biggest was a 22 incher. Got to the lake around 5 in the morning and caught 4 fish through...
By: Cman2007
Posted: 5/15/2007
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
went to the lake around 3:30-5:15 found 3 large mouth 2 in the nest ran a worm throw the nest couple time nothing then switched to crank bait ran that throw caught a 5 lber
good day at the lake...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/30/2007
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/28/2007
Hot Spots: 0
It was the first time I went to the opening day fishing derby at Lake Wilderness. It was crowded but fun with a lot of families and very few to no trouble makers. We fished on the small peninsula be...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/27/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/27/2006
Hot Spots: 0
went out for about four hours trolling for some trout used a dodger and wedding ring at first then changed to pop gear and a rainbow pattern needle fish i caught a trout about 14 inches and then a ba...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/12/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/1/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Lots of fish in this lake. My buddy and I went around the lake trying to catch bass and hooked about 15 each. All pretty small but a good fight. Then we decided to troll and catch some trout. Hooked 6...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/24/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/20/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Went to this lake all weekend and had a great time. Fished out of a raft all over the lake. We caught 16 fish and 4 were over 12 inches. Woolyboogers work well here (Green) . I don't suggest fishing...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/19/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/18/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Wilderness last night with Eli. Spent about 2 hours still fishing, and about 1 hour trolling the east end of the lake. Though the fish were not as aggeresive as they normally are this time of ...