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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/11/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Just want to say thanks for all the posting on different lakes in WA. I am new to the area and follow your posting. I caught this nice smallmouth bass off the fishing bridge at Riffe lake.
By: trout trakr
Posted: 1/22/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, been visiting this site for years so I thought I would give back... Signed up a few days ago so this is my first report. Normally wouldn't give up info so easily to so many, but this is an exc...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/8/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
PACKED UP THE KIDS AND TOOK OFF FOR THE BRIDGE. WELL REALLY WE HAD NO CLUE WHERE WE WERE GOING BUT WE ENDED UP AT THE BRIDGR ON RIFFE. IT LOOKED LIKE THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE ONLY AT THE END BY TH...
By: USFisher20
Posted: 3/6/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/6/2009
Hot Spots: 1
Went to Riffe Lake portion of the Cowlitz River below the Cowlitz Falls Dam and above Taidenpam Park. Was hoping to get some landlocked silvers, but ended up with Rainbows. The water level is much low...
By: USFisher20
Posted: 3/10/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went back to Riffe Lake again, and smacked the fish again. Using a worm 3 inches from a corkie on a 24 inch leader, with 1 ounce of lead on the mainline. We ran hook sizes anywhere from 6-10. First th...
By: fishtremble
Posted: 3/26/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I went to the fishing bridge, at Taidnapam Park, started around 8:45 in the morning. I got there around 8:15, but the gate was still closed. It was overcast. I fished the pools just upstream of the...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/1/2001
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/1/2001
Hot Spots: 0
The water is still quite low, so if you're fishing from the bank anywhere
there's a little more hiking to do than usual, along with some steep
drop-offs, so be careful out there! We fished on the so...
By: Jacob
Posted: 4/18/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Riffe today at about 10:30 the water level is decent but not high enough to launch at Cosmos, Mossyrock park had one lane open for boat launching. water temp was anywhere from 45 to 51 degrees....
By: jsb7273
Posted: 9/10/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake twice on Monday. Fished in the morning/afternoon between 10-2:30. Caught a few smallies on the Southside of the lake, about midway between Kosmos and Mossyrock, largest about 1.5 pounds. ...
By: jsb7273
Posted: 7/28/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
We launched the boat at 5:30am; water temp was warm, 70+. Hot and sunny, wind was very calm until about 11am. We started off at some of the weedbeds near the river mouth and in coves, no luck. Hit the...
By: jsb7273
Posted: 8/18/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Launched around 5:30pm. Lake level is down at least 15 feet now. It started out nice and calm. Hit some rocky shoreline areas, chunk rock specifically, caught a few with the biggest being 1.5lbs. Also...
By: Basskiller1
Posted: 7/1/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, hit the lake after setting up camp around 4pm. Within an hour I had 4 in the boat and had 2 on that I lost, can't wait for August to do it again.
By: Thom Thornton
Posted: 7/28/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/28/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water at 06:00 at the East end and fished until noon. Cool and windy but not too rough until about noon. Got two smallies on drop shot in 25' of water. Did not even get a follow or a bump o...
By: the piranha
Posted: 9/26/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
first time on the lake. launched at kosmos lost one right away by boat launch. it was about a 4lber on a zara spook. it jumped twice before throwing the hook, that would have been a personal...
By: J_Smits11
Posted: 7/19/2013
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
went out to Riffe yesterday after school and arrived around 4:45 fishing upstream of the bridge from the bank with a friend. The usually hot bite was off as water had dropped about 3.5 ft it seemed. M...
By: Beelzebis
Posted: 5/18/2014
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/17/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Decided to make another trip to Riffe today. On the water at 7am and the lake was glass. I don't think I've ever seen this lake that still. The water level was up from two weeks ago and the launch at ...
By: fishtremble
Posted: 7/4/2014
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/3/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I tried some fishing at the Mosseyrock Dam fishing area, off of Highway 12, yesterday. It was overcast and sunny at times, with a little wind blowing. The fishing calendar rated it a Fair day. I go...
By: shardknight
Posted: 3/2/2015
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/28/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the dam with a friend and his dad they caught the only two fish we saw caught.
By: morfish mormud
Posted: 5/23/2015
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/23/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Started at taidnapam park 5am. Green swing blades and modified green wedding rings (pink smile blade and 2 white beads in front) at 11 inches. 27 ft on the wire 1.8mph. Had our first 7 coho before 6am...
By: Toni
Posted: 7/13/2015
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/13/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Riffe Lake ADVENTURE 7-13-15
My plan was to go to the Kosmos Launch on Riffe Lake. Kim (pinkpole)and I got there around 7am. We were the only ones in the lot. I found that my trailer light plug was...
By: cloverhouse
Posted: 5/25/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/23/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Follow Up to Last Post
Anyone needing information on current lake levels and Boat Launch status can call Tacoma Power Hot Line
1-888-502-8690.
Currently it says the boat launches are useab...
By: salmonkiller
Posted: 5/31/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/28/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Riffe Lake Memorial day
We got to Taidnampam park on Saturday afternoon.
The Taidnampam North launch was full of drift wood, other boats where using it so we decided to try the launch around 4P...
By: arniejl
Posted: 5/12/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well, decided to waste all that gas in hopes of finding fortune at Riffe Lake:( Only having fished the lake one time prior, and that was more of a hunting outing than fishing, I was not totally sure...
By: crawfishman
Posted: 5/31/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/27/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Got to the Mossyrock Dam around 1:30. tons of people; elbow to elbow. i threw my line in for a few hours and tried everything. worms, maggots, power bait, spinners. absolutley nothing. everyone else w...
By: grubinit
Posted: 4/30/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/28/2012
Hot Spots: 3
The Lewis County Bass Club held our open tourney saturday and our club tourney sunday and there were ALOT of fish caught both days. We had two largemouth and over 240 lbs. of smallmouth weighted in. ...
