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Rapjohn Fishing Reports

Posted: 11/1/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I knew the rivers where gonna be to high, made it to rap John. I just started at the launch and worked my way to the left. There were some duck hunters so I stayed on left side of Lake the entire ...
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By: gunnybyrd
Posted: 5/11/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/8/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Spent a few hours paddling around Rapjohn this past Friday. Caught 15+ trout plants, with two over a pound. Sorry no pics, but the new trout plants seem to be hitting everything under the sun when p...
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By: dawgwe1
Posted: 5/1/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/30/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Rapjohn for the first time in several years. We decided to do some still fishing. We started off bottom fishing towards the middle of the lake with no luck. Moved further to the south near...
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By: bshntr
Posted: 9/3/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to rapjohn for the past three days and just slayed everything... the first day i caught a 2 lb brown 9 small lmb and1 black crappie. The second day caught two more browns, two rainbows, 4 cra...
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Posted: 8/26/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Was on the water around 2:30 or so PM and stayed out until the sun had set. I trolled the perimeter of the lake, alternating between hugging the lilly pads that encircle the lake as closely as possib...
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Posted: 7/8/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Squatch and I headed out to check out Rapjohn this morning... got there kinda late... 8ish... we did have a few hits on frogs and a few strikes on spinnerbaits but no hookups... just a nice mornin...
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Posted: 5/5/2013
Species: Crappie
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
You could not ask for a better day for fishing. Myself, brother-in-law and a good friend got to the lake at about 1000 hrs. There were about 20 boats on the water with plenty of room. We fished with w...
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By: procaster
Posted: 6/2/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/2/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I bought a new pole so I was itchin to break it in. I think the best part about the pole was the price, $38 after tax! Its a diawa 7ft 8-17lb baitcaster. I only had a couple hours to fish, but do ...
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Posted: 5/17/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Took my son to Rapjohn Lake. Between the two of us we caught and released 20 bass. My son caught 11, and I with 9. Most were a pound to 2 1/2 lbs. I caught all but one on a homemade swimbait, while my...
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Posted: 5/11/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Good bite today despite the lunar phases, although the trout were biting lite and smacking the side of our lures, as most of our trout were hooked on the outside of the mouth. Lost more than we lande...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/18/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to a private lake off Hwy. 7 except guy whom owns the lake will let you in to fish it, knew from talking to him that there were Bass and Crappie, he said leave the Crappie as there are not that m...
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By: procaster
Posted: 5/19/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
So many lakes, so little time. Rapjohn is nice because your not staring into peoples houses all day when you fish. Unfortunately fish were not cooperating I always start shallow for a while then w...
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By: castalot
Posted: 5/12/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Been doing OK of the shore. Cast out with 2 big slip weights as far and I can with about a 6 foot leader. Marshmellow on the fine first then some Spring Green Powerbait on the hook. All around 12 inch...
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By: my87
Posted: 5/11/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
had to work for them,shallow to the lilly pad edge.got 9,pictured is the 5 best.also got 2 bass on a jig n pig between crappie fishing,
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By: brian420
Posted: 5/10/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Water around 12:30 pm.Had my limit at 1:45PM All smaller ones nothing to brag about size wise!Still had a great time the kids even caught some to!
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By: procaster
Posted: 7/29/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
After I got done fishin at silver lake earlier in the week, I stopped by Rapjohn to ckeck it out it looked nice but I didn't see any milfoil in water. I didn't want to cross contaminate the lake so...
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By: elrika
Posted: 6/7/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing around Noon, partly cloudy, warm, and constant wind. No bites in the first hour while trying a variety of lures. Finally found a couple of things that the fish were interested in (sp...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/15/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got there around 9:00am and fished with my daughter until just after noon trolling the whole time. We caught over 20 fish, mostly on the southwest part of the lake. Great weather and lots of fish: My ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/13/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Here is my first ever report for successful trout fishing. I bought myself a 10' jon boat on tuesday, which i also have a trolling motor on and put it to good use these last two days. I also learned g...
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Posted: 5/10/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to rapjohn saterday morning got there about 6ish started trolling got 1 smaller about 8-9 inches. tryed that for about 45min decided to go to the east side of the lake caught a few on bottom with...
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Posted: 5/9/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/9/2010
Hot Spots: 3
got on the lake at about 5:30 trolled around but no luck started to bober fish right out of the lilie pads and they just started biteing left about 8 good day over all
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By: BSDOWN420
Posted: 4/27/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Great day fishing,Me and a friend limetd out within two hours.Used bobber and worms,and caught some off the botom with red power eggs.Got some nice sized ones and two 1.5 pounders.
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Posted: 7/5/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/26/2009
Hot Spots: 3
Finally had a decent day here.Still cant figure the big ones out but landed three stockers and lost three more.Fish finder shows this lake as being loaded with fish,a lot of them look to be large.All ...
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Posted: 7/5/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/21/2009
Hot Spots: 3
Third time here this year.Arrived around 6:30 am no one else here yet.Water was calm but very murky(allways is here).Surface temp around 70.Nice calm partly cloudy day.This will be the time they start...
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Posted: 7/5/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for the lateness of this report,computer probs have kept me offline.This was actually the second time here this year.Fish all over the fish finder but none biting.Surface temp around 68 with fis...
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