Waitts Lake fishing: Largemouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout

Target species: Largemouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout, Brown Trout
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Waitts Lake, 1 lane.

The lake

Waitts Lake covers 475 acres in Washington, across Stevens County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is at least 65 feet (19.8 m). Our records hold 6 species for this water.

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 65 ft (19.8 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. We hold 20 depth contour lines for this water.

  • 0–5 ft: 5.4% of the water
  • 5–10 ft: 6.7% of the water
  • 10–15 ft: 5.7% of the water
  • 15–20 ft: 5.3% of the water
  • 20–25 ft: 5.2% of the water
  • 25–30 ft: 5.4% of the water
  • 30–35 ft: 5.8% of the water
  • 35–40 ft: 6.5% of the water
  • 40–45 ft: 7.7% of the water
  • 45–50 ft: 8.4% of the water
  • 50–55 ft: 9.1% of the water
  • 55–60 ft: 10.9% of the water
  • 60–65 ft: 17.8% of the water

Stocking: 2,386,874 fish, 1997–2026

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife records list 2,386,874 fish released into this water from 1997 to 2026.

  • Brown Trout: 1,249,798 in 2006–2025

3 more species on the stocking list.

Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP 2017
USDA Farm Service Agency, NAIP 2017 aerial imagery (USGS The National Map) · Public domain

4 target fish, led by Largemouth Bass

  • Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
  • Rainbow Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Brook Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.
  • Brown Trout — Feeding water: 50–65°F.

Also recorded here: Yellow Perch, Goldfish.

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.

  • Waitts Lake — 1 lane, restrooms. WDFW.

The place listed has no fee or opening hours on file: a blank means we hold no such field, not that it is free or always open, and this list may not be complete.

What is hard here

Only 1 public ramp is on file, so the launch decides where you fish.

Where this data comes from

  • Washington State Department of Ecology — Washington State Department of Ecology: depth contours: class A, a survey of the bottom.
  • Webster, K.E., McCullough, I.M., Soranno, P.A. LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0, EDI, doi:10.6073/pasta/64ddc4d04661d9aef4bd702dc5d8984f (CC BY 4.0); Cheruvelil et al. LAGOS-US LOCUS v1.0 (EDI) — LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0: Lake depth for 17,675 lakes in the conterminous U.S.: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.