http://wdfw.wa.gov/cgi-bin/database/fish/fishing_record.cgi#fresh

There is no white catfish in "swafford" pond just bullheads and channels, and they dont hit stinkbaits. Channels prefer fresh bait. The biggest channel caught out of swafford was 23# it was caught on a live trout. The state as far as I know stopped putting them in there, did away with the size limit and raised the catch limit after they saw the cats were not providing the great action recreational fishery they thought they would. Also the is some kind of weird disease thats seems to affect the catfish in there, I see dead ones washed against the bank every year with sores on them and messed up gills. Other then that people dont catch many in there though if you want to camp out for a week you may catch one or two in the five to eight pound range if your lucky. Just after dark is best. I catch a few now and then with garlic oil dipped nightcrawlers.


Anybody that fishes "swafford" can vouch for this.

By the way its called swofford and its by mossyrock. I fish riffe a whole lot and Swofford when my arms get sore from playing smallies all day.