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By: orygunal
Posted: 7/18/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at the lake on the 12th of July and fished through the morning of the 14th. Not a bad fishing considering the fact that I left our tackle box at home! Fortunately, we had our rods rigged for ...
By: troutcatcher_82
Posted: 7/19/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
First off I want to say this is one of the most beatiful places to fish that I have ever been to.We arrived at the lake around 0930 and fished until about 1800.The beggining of the day was terrible,co...
By: natetreat
Posted: 7/26/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for the late report, no internet acces for a week. My first time catching Kokanee, fished from the rubber raft with my new wife on our honeymoon at Mt. Rainier. Appartently, Morton is the closes...
By: jtfishes34
Posted: 8/16/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Great weekend camping at Mossyrock Park. Lots of limits caught by others. My only keeper fish for me though was the one pictured. Out on a friends boat trolling with pop gear and weddingring in the si...
By: 5th Day Adv
Posted: 10/25/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The lake was 30' low when I launched the boat at Tidnapam north launch. I always start with the trolling at the launch and work my way along the east side. The fish are hitting hard. I caught numerous...
By: gordon r geise
Posted: 11/21/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
started at 9:am fished till 12pm landed 5 lost about 6 one to 17 inches used shrimp with a slip bobber at about 10 feet snowed most of the day had great time
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/1/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
launched from mossy rock park 5pm. fished out from the tower .. we had consistent action . two rods with dodgers and pink hoochies other rod withred wedding ring and ford fender .. caught fish on all ...
By: bryanpeck
Posted: 7/10/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/8/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Got a late start and wasn't on the water until 8:00 or 8:30. Spent most of my time trolling in the vacinity of the dam. Watched the video so I started out with all things green. Had a few short srtike...
By: Nangusdog
Posted: 2/17/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/17/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Great day fishing with my daughter, the "fish wisperer" at the Dam on Riffe Lake...she couldn't keep them off her line. We both got a limit, but it took us a couple hours as they were pretty difficult...
By: KIDKOKANEE
Posted: 4/28/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
WHOA!! What a morning headed out to Riffe Lake and fished the Mossy Rock Dam Fishn area near the damn both sides Severe winds and rain storming about half hour or so toughed it out and then got sunny ...
By: KIDKOKANEE
Posted: 6/22/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Tried to buy a used Boat motor from a classified and needed to be in the area the guy really odd about meeting up had to go to base ball games etc etc and we just had to wait for his convenient ti...
By: cwbraue
Posted: 9/23/2023
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/23/2023
Hot Spots: 0
This was the worst day of great fishing ever. Everything went wrong that could including finding access areas all locked, falling off the bank with the kayak and with lots of mud, lost all my best lur...
By: Sltfisher85
Posted: 7/16/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/16/2017
Hot Spots: 0
1 fish shy of limiting out. Fished on the south west end of the lake where Swafford flows into the lake. had to fight to keep the shakers off....
Gulp pink worm pinches 70 pulls back a wiggle Hochee...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/11/2005
Species: Catfish
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/10/2005
Hot Spots: 0
went to the riffe lake fishing bridge. not a lot of action. went to the cowlitz falls dam. ended up with 6 catfish. i seen a few other people getting them to. the kokanee were not biting. but did see ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/29/2004
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/29/2004
Hot Spots: 0
fished the west end by the dam and around the swofford outlet area we trolled for 4 hrs for silvers and rainbow and caught only two silvers about 10" one down deep about 25' on a plug and the other ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/16/2004
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/16/2004
Hot Spots: 0
What a cold, windy, rainy,day to be out, but the fishing was hot!!! The four of us were running a little late, but we got on the lake about 8:15. Our hot spot is strictly an early morning/late evening...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/1/2003
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Three of us fished a couple of small inlet streams out of dad's new 20' thunderjet. Total take was 5 silvers 13-15 inches,5 bows 11-17 inches, and 4 cutts 12-14 inches. We also released an 18 inch and...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/24/2003
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/24/2003
Hot Spots: 0
My dad, sister, and I were on the lake by noon. I had been there last on Fri. the 19th with my dad a brother. We all caught our limits of Silver Trout on both days. On Fri. it was overcast and my dad ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/1/2003
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/1/2003
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I liked this lake last week so we tried it again and the results were even better than last week (that's because I caught more fish than my son this time). I caught three fish that I thoug...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/26/2003
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/26/2003
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I fished Riffe for the first time just east of the dam. My son landed three silvers to my one silver and one baby largemouth (sent him back to grow up) all were caught on rooster tails. N...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/27/2003
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/27/2003
Hot Spots: 0
I hit Riffe Lake at 5:30am(that's 0530 to you non-civvies). The water was perfect, clear, clean, smooth as glass, and best of all.... All Mine! Sorry, don't mean to be greedy, but we all know that fee...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/15/2003
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/15/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Riffe the other day, drove over the fishing bridge and found out that they closed the upper part of the cowlitz right below the damn due to high fire danger. It would be quite a hike to g...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/5/2003
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/5/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for silvers over the holiday. Did very good. Biggest was 18", a lot of 14 to 15 " fish. Best bite was the evening when they would come right to the surface. Trolling wedding rings with shri...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/17/2004
Species:
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/17/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Went to riffe lake for some smallmouths, but didn't spend much time
fishing because we couldn't find a campsite. The times we did fish
we didn't catch anything. The lake was too windy and too large ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/25/2004
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Hit riffe again this morning launching at kosmos looking for browns after 3 hrs of nothing changed over to bass fishing, much much better caught my first riffe large mouth at about 4 lbs and many sm...
