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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...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/30/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Caught both these off the jig in the mouth during the rainy Monday morning was fishing for Bass these did just fine, good fight, nice size to em also, should have kept em for the frying pan, next time...
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...
By: catchfishes73
Posted: 5/4/2016
Species: Catfish
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Had the day off so I decided to head to Alder for the morning bite. I was hoping to land a bass or two to bring home but more or less it was a catch and release day. Well, I didn't catch any bass but ...
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...
By: bassmasterderek
Posted: 5/15/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Alder at 3:00. Explored some areas we have never been to before, beautiful lake if you haven't seen the whole lake before. The water temp near rocky point was 49, lot's of snowmelt running in...
By: bassmasterderek
Posted: 8/8/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy and I went to Alder. I was going to launch at rocky point but it was pretty choppy so I decided to launch at the other boat launch. Lake was probably the highest I have seen it. I caught a...
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...
By: ivebenfishin
Posted: 5/25/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit up alder with a buddy....hit the shoreline where they were bedding up...caught 3 over 2lbs the largest near 4 or 5lbs.
saw lots of fish cruizin...will definatly be going back to harass the bass...
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.
By: arniejl
Posted: 3/24/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
First off, fished Alder Lake on Friday. Put in at Rocky Point and fished around there and across lake near the big point. Tried most all bass tactics and only mustered up an 8" Kokanee caught on a Rap...
By: arniejl
Posted: 4/18/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Put in at the nice ramp at the town of Alder. was fishing by 8:00. Fished either direction from the launch for a couple hours and then headed out into the big part of the lake. Went across the lake to...
By: Nx750
Posted: 4/28/2013
Species: Crappie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/24/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Spent the last week at Alder Lake searching for Crappie. Alder is an amazing lake and I enjoyed the great weather we had. I only managed to boat one fish (Kokanee). I was really focused on the Crappie...
By: Travesty 85
Posted: 11/4/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Over all great day of fishing. Set in around 11am and fished till dark. Spent some time trolling around the lake with a down rigger ranging from 30-45'. First time fishing this lake and at first was n...
By: arniejl
Posted: 3/19/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well, it was time to get my little 12 footer going. Got my motor out of storage and changed the gear oil, loaded up and headed to Alder, mainly just to get out, but I fished while I was there.
Pitc...
By: Mikeel1987
Posted: 6/17/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/16/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Camping Trip out at Alder Lake this weekend. Took Father in Law and Grandfather in Law out fishing on my new boat this year for the first time. Went and tried catching some Trout or Kokanee trollin...
By: 502300
Posted: 8/27/2018
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/26/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Went to alder for my brothers birthday. Lake is very very low, surprisingly about 10 trailers at the launch. Started out fishing stumps with nothing moved down toward the dam. My brother caught a soli...
By: headhunter2
Posted: 7/2/2016
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/1/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Out with the family for the early weekend camped thursday fished friday. Kokes were real slow all down 30-40 ft only 2 in the early hours of the day. Went tubing and then kids tired the wife said th...
By: Toni
Posted: 9/24/2017
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/23/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I called my son Adam at 6:30am to see if he was coming. He said he was getting dressed which meant he was still in bed. My plan was to get to Alder and we did at 8:30. I tried to launch but it was too...
By: 502300
Posted: 5/29/2017
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Went to alder with the kayaks in search of some bass or some panfish. Started with a white trout magnet tossing it around logs in 5-15 FOW. Fished the dam end of the lake my brother hooked into a 10 i...
By: Toni
Posted: 6/6/2017
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/5/2017
Hot Spots: 3
I had planned on being at the launch by 7am but I woke and saw that the temperature was 39 Therefore plan B was formed when it would be a little warmer. Which turned out to be a pleasant sunny morning...
By: obryan214
Posted: 1/30/2019
Species: Other
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/30/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Nothing to do on my day off so I drove up to Alder. Played around the bank with the flyrod I keep in the trunk. Saw no fish. Got to watch a flatbed tow an abandoned truck from rocky point. Water is wa...
By: Toni
Posted: 7/26/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/26/2020
Hot Spots: 2
We got to the parking lot close to 8am and it was almost full. Lots of activity on the lake. With a few people fishing. It was already quite warm. Campground was full.
The water temperature was 69 ...
By: Toni
Posted: 7/29/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/29/2020
Hot Spots: 3
John Knudsen and I started fishing about 8:30am. It was sunny, calm, and quiet. The water went from 71 to 73 degrees. We quit between 11:30 and noon because of a boat and jet ski’s doing donuts. And i...
By: Toni
Posted: 6/4/2022
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/4/2022
Hot Spots: 0
I didn’t feel well enough to go out today so my son went by himself. He was there about 7-11:30am. The water was 60 degrees and it was cloudy but the sun did come out. He was at 6 foot on the downri...
