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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/13/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My son and me and my buddy arrived at the boat launch about 7:00 am .It was gonna be a hot day so we wanted to be off the lake by noon. We headed toward the Little Nisqually river got to the mouth and...
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By: rubioloco
Posted: 5/21/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Weather had settled and I decided to give it another go after a previous evening of bass and crappie. Water was still, no wind and weather was sunny. Water in lake had risen about 6" since the weekend...
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By: kevinb
Posted: 2/20/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Started the day at Kapowsin but noticed a small amount of water in the boat and started resealing. Still wanting to get some time in the water,decided to try Alder,I was out here yesterday with the fa...
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Posted: 7/14/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had another great day on Alder, missed a few good ones but did manage to get this one. 8lb line caught a 4lb largemouth bass. Got to love it.
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By: arniejl
Posted: 8/21/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, thought I was finished fishing for the summer as I bowhunt and it is coming up fast, but, managed to get away for the morning with the wife for her first trip of the year, and only her third ba...
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By: arniejl
Posted: 5/9/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 7:15 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. with nary a bite.
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Posted: 5/19/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great morning at Alder, caught 2 out of three smallmouth bass that I had spotted on Sat while swimming and wading around. Also found a dead one on the bank must have been a 4 or 4 in a half pou...
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Posted: 5/20/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Finally figured out how to send pics from my phone to a web site, not hard at all just needed someone to show me step by step and now I have it so here are the two smallies I caught that go with my st...
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By: arniejl
Posted: 5/23/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Let me see how many ways I can type this out. 0 for Alder Oh for Alder 0 4 Alder Oh 4 ahl-durr 5th trip this year to Alder Lake and, once again, the big NADA! Fished the shoreline for a ...
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By: snatch275
Posted: 6/1/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Made it to the lake around 0630 and started fishing about 0645 in a light rain. Intinally my friend and I were going for largermouth until we talked to a a local and they told us that a lot of smallm...
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Posted: 6/3/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 11:00 on and caught 8 smallmouth. Fish were btween 2 and 4 pounds. All fish were caught in 7-12 feet of water. Nothing on the crank bait or spinner bait. All were taken on drop shot or...
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By: arniejl
Posted: 6/5/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My 0 for Alder continues! 6 trips, ZERO bites, ZERO fish, ZERO patience remaining, ZERO humor! Nice day, though. Saw 6 bass in the flooded grass shallows. Highlight of the day: Was fishing a...
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By: jeford
Posted: 6/7/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake about 0900 and thought I'd give the smallies a try. The lake was full of logs, stumps, and other debris, including an unoccupied aluminum boat half full of water. Reported the boat but...
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Posted: 5/16/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
First time to Adler. First ran way back up in some bay, only had one file from a smallie. Went back out to main lake and targeted small bays and points. After about 3 hours found a pattern on bitsy ...
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Posted: 7/1/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/28/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Smallmouth on the dry fly at alder had plenty of other bites all from dinks
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By: tacmoe
Posted: 6/2/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Sat 6/1/13 fished from shore where river enters the lake at Elbe. Used piece of nightcrawler with red eggs, 3ft leader, 1/6th ounce slider sinker above swivel. four 10"-14" rainbows in 2 about two hou...
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Posted: 7/16/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/13/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Got up to Alder for a nice afternoon/evening fish. Looking for trout, kokanee or possibly crappie. Ended up finding all three! Fishing with the NTO™Scent Spinner 2.0 in white with some hypervis ta...
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By: cwbraue
Posted: 9/9/2023
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/9/2023
Hot Spots: 0
FYI- the ramp at the far boat launch is closed, but you can still park and launch kayaks. This is my first time seriously fishing this lake. It took my quite a while to find some fish, about a mile fr...
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By: dlisoski
Posted: 3/10/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Excellent sunny weather got my wife and I with some friends out fishing for the day. Caught 3 trout (1 rainbow and 2 kokanee) about 11 inches after an hour to 1 1/2 hours of fishing from shoreline. Th...
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By: bassman93
Posted: 6/12/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
hit the lake with a few buddys lookin to drift fish. but not enough wind at the west side of the lake (no wake zone by damn) gave up went to the rocky point area and knocked 11 kokes and 2 rainbows de...
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By: mugzy1990
Posted: 6/24/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I dont know why but it dont have mineral lake on here its pass the bridge in near elbe. It was the end of the day and we had 9 fish on the stringer and we were trolling back to the boat launch AND BA...
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Posted: 9/6/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well yet again I got robbed. I really Dont know what I'm doing wrong. Im from MD and I fish quite offten. Mostly salt-water but Ive done my fair share of Bass fishing too. All I wanted when I was ...
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Posted: 7/22/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Took my Kayak out to Alder lake yesterday and put in around 5:45pm. Started out trolling an orange/silver Dick Nite with a 1/4 oz sinker. No hits, so I switched to a 2oz plunker weight. Still n...
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By: boogie96
Posted: 5/29/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/26/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the holiday weekend on Alder and did not fare so well. Over two days we boated all over the lake, hitting ever place we could. Using wedding rings and nightcrawlers most of the time, we tried ...
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By: jordaniel
Posted: 5/30/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/26/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 5-6pm off the dock at the Alder state park ($5 entry fee) and didn't get a bite. I spoke to some of the people there before I retrieved my family and they reported the same level of succe...
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