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By: dole253
Posted: 7/17/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Camped at Alder State park. Few of us hit up the lake at about 9am on my friend's boat. within the first 45 minutes, i caught a keeper. we had many bites the rest of the day but none of us could get a...
By: crotter
Posted: 7/21/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 8 a.m. to noon. Big pop gear with small daredevil or suoer-duper. Lots of fish on; landed less than half. We boated 12 kokanee and 3 rainbow. Found fish on surface and deep. Trick wa...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/28/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Alder at 8:30 with a couple buddies. Neither of us had fished this lake before so we didn't know what to expect. So we threw on some flashers. Were marking fish around 40'when we got there . D...
By: TrollNFisher
Posted: 3/20/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
20 Mar 2011 started 0950, trolled next to the dam and northwest started out trolling free lining out the back trolled florescent green wedding band behind a 6 inch dodger tipped with pink Berkley’s ma...
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...
By: gordonbair
Posted: 7/23/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
No crappie today, only one nice cutthroat trout caught by the youngest of the anglers! All and all, a good day of fishing, just wish we had caught more fish.
By: Lou Smith
Posted: 9/7/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Waited until the holiday was over and the lake was practically abandoned. Launched at the Alder ramp 0730 and went after rainbows and got a limit of 10"-11" kokes! Went toward the dam and got an 11". ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/6/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Saw a break in the rain on the Weather Channel and was at Alder at 0700. Rocky Point gate locked and the ramp didn't look good for launching. Went to main park and on the water 0800. Rain had stopped ...
By: Lou Smith
Posted: 10/13/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Rocky Point - no water at end of ramp! Launched from Alder Park 0800 and pushed the power button on the Humminbird and nothing happened! Fished from memory - really taking a chance at my age. Water is...
By: Lou Smith
Posted: 10/19/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Alder Park gates opened at 0800. Lake down another three feet, but still a good rock base to launch. Never got out of the area between the two docks! Kokes hit consistantly and boated 10 twelve incher...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/26/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/26/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Went out by dam caught nothing. Tried all different kinds of lours and baits. Caught nothing.
By: jimdixon
Posted: 7/28/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/25/2012
Hot Spots: 2
had a day off and woke up late. started fishing around 10am. caught one small kokanee off the boat launch. decided to go to mouth of little nisqually and fished all around the no wake zone to finger l...
By: Lou Smith
Posted: 8/18/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/17/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Alder Lake has had a 10 kokanee limit for years in an attempt to reduce the population and allow the remaining fish to grow larger on the limited plankton available. Today I saw the classic example wh...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/9/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
JoAnn and I got to fish with Lou Smith from the site today. I was pretty pumped up about catching tons of kokanee as I had heard the lake holds a lot of them, although on the smaller size. Figured we ...
By: quaddaddy
Posted: 5/25/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2013
Hot Spots: 3
First time at Alder Lake and it's a very nice lake. Fishing was slow in the morning but it was very cold and a pretty good wind was blowing. Around 10 am the tide turned and we put 10 Kokanee and 1 Ra...
By: vevalachris
Posted: 9/2/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/31/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Launched out of Alder Lake State Park. Out of the launch we hung an immediate left and began to troll along the shore in a counter close wise direction in what I would call an inlet. Water temp was ab...
By: iraru4
Posted: 9/25/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/25/2013
Hot Spots: 3
went to alder today @ 9:30 and fished for Kokes with orange wedding ring and maggot, had our limit in 45 minutes all nice bucks about 11 to 13 inches, That's the good news, bad news is when I returned...
By: Sheepdog981
Posted: 7/28/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Caught Kokanee all day long. Consistent bites or hook ups back and forth between the boat launch and dam. Pink or orange hoochies and red wedding rings behind pop gear with an ounce of weight 75 - 100...
By: Toni
Posted: 7/30/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/29/2014
Hot Spots: 1
After I had 3 cups of coffee, on the 28th, I called Kim to see if she could go fishing with me tomorrow at Alder Lake. She had been there last month and I have never been there. She said Yes.
We go...
By: Toni
Posted: 8/10/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/7/2014
Hot Spots: 2
This report is late due to a yard sale.
We got to the launch to find out that they don’t open it until after 7am on the Thursday that we were there. We were on the water before 7am off by 10am so ...
By: Toni
Posted: 9/23/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/22/2014
Hot Spots: 2
I got to the lake at 7:30am but didn’t get my first koke until 8:30am. I had some bites but no takedowns until that first one. I went from 35 foot to 140 foot of water and all the fish came at 10-14 f...
By: Toni
Posted: 3/26/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/24/2015
Hot Spots: 1
I went to check out Alder Lake today. The tops of the hills close had snow on them, probably a fresh dusting from during the night. They were working on the ramp digging up some concrete. They took a ...
By: Racer
Posted: 6/4/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy and I decided to go to Alder today as we haven't been there in quite awhile. We got to the lake about 7:30 and went to the dam to start. It was slow to start but then we found the combo they ...
By: Roosterpie
Posted: 6/7/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Alder. Wanted to skip opening day mayhem on the rivers. Weather was great with great views. Never fished Alder before. Got out a little before six. Launched at Alder Lake Park. Trolled until ab...
By: Silverseeker
Posted: 6/10/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My fishing partner and I hit the lake about 7a m and caught our first Kokanee at 7:20am just under 10in in front of the dam. It was pretty cold and breezy in the morning but cleared off nice at noon. ...
