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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/3/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/3/2003
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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
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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
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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
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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: 6/1/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 6/1/2002
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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
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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: 5/31/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 5/31/2002
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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: 8/18/2001
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/18/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 6 - 11 am. caught 3 small bass on perch colored rapalas, and dozens of perch and bluegill using nightcrawlers, maggots, and small bright colored plastic jigs. we were after crappie but n...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/26/2001
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Rating: 2
Fished: 6/26/2001
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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
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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
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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
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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...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/19/2000
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Rating: 2
Fished: 8/19/2000
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On my way to Swofford I stop by Alder Lake the lake was way down looked like you could only get carry downs to the water. I bank fished awhile and caught some nice size perch. When the level is this l...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/27/2000
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/27/2000
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Hello there everyone;))
Well as you y'all figured out, riffe lake is slower than all get out. I went to Swofford Ponds and it seems they like the worm and definitely the green label eggs...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/28/2000
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/28/2000
Hot Spots: 0
When we got to the lake it was late about 5:30, it only took about 10 minutes to get the first fish and it was a whopping 8 inches. As the day finished out we had our limit. All the fish were between...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/21/1999
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/21/1999
Hot Spots: 0
I've been trying to catch some channel catfish at Swofford and
after twenty trips I finally started getting the hang of it. I was going to keep this to myself but if we don't share information about ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/24/1999
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Rating: 2
Fished: 6/24/1999
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing about 11am catch trout on carey special in brown.At 2pm the wind started in and that was the end of the fishing !!!!
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/22/1999
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Rating: 2
Fished: 5/22/1999
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We really didn't go to Riffe to fish,instead we wanted to check out the reports of the lake being so low. We did check out the Mossyrock park boat launch, it seemed like about three blocks to the wate...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/12/1999
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/12/1999
Hot Spots: 0
Got out at Swofford at 6am, it was like glass but no fish were
rolling. I had the hole pond to myself.
I must have fished for 3 hours with not even a bite. I saw a lot of larva floating on the surfa...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/3/1999
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/3/1999
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Swofford Pond, there was a few small boats, but not
many people. Didn't catch any catfish, bummer. Maybe it's still a bit cold
for them.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/20/1999
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Rating: 2
Fished: 3/20/1999
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful sunny Saturday. Air temp mid 60's.
Water temp was 47 near middle of lake, 50
in most of shallows at south end.
Deepest Hole I found in the lake was 13'.
Most of the lake is 7' to 9' dee...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/17/1999
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Rating: 5
Fished: 3/17/1999
Hot Spots: 0
Last year I fished Swofford Pond using Cronimid Emergers. From April to August I caught many 12" to 18" trout. Most of the time I trolled as slow as I could go with about 50ft of line out. The fis...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/16/1998
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/16/1998
Hot Spots: 0
This is a nice pond to fish in the spring and fall. I fished for anything that would bite using a fly rod and pontoon boat. I did catch two rainbows on a bead head leech in brown fished on the bottom ...