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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/22/1998
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/22/1998
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Went to RIFFE LAKE on MAY 22, We had read about some good fishing there and the excellent variety of fish this lake has to offer. We put in a Mossyrock Park at 7:00 AM (nice boat launch and dock) and ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/24/1998
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/24/1998
Hot Spots: 0
I recently went fishing/camping over the holiday at
Riffe Lake. Let me tell you, it was awesome. A buddy of mine has a nice small boat and we did some fishing in the Mossyrock area. We had a lot o...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/28/1998
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Rating: 2
Fished: 5/28/1998
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Riffe Lake at 0730 this morning and spent a few minutes talking to a couple of guys. They said they filled their boats Yesterday. The story of my fishing career. A day late and the wrong b...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/1/1998
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/1/1998
Hot Spots: 0
Just got back from Rife lake and thought I'd let you know I killed them. Got blowed out of my favorite spot in the west end so I went all the way to the other end and got into the smallmouth. Got 14...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/14/1998
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/14/1998
Hot Spots: 0
After reading some previous reports, I was excited to hit Riffe Lake and try for some large trout. My sons and I arrived at 9 am and began working the southwest shoreline, trolling with downriggers an...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/21/1998
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Rating: 3
Fished: 3/21/1998
Hot Spots: 0
Weather was cold and rainy in the morning and throughout much of the afternoon. Weatherman got me again. Water is 40-50 feet low, but a great chance to explore for new spots for when the level r...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/20/1998
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Rating: 5
Fished: 3/20/1998
Hot Spots: 0
On a family vacation from Phoenix, AZ. Visiting in-laws in Rochester, my Father and I planned to try one of the many wonderful lakes in the area, we decided on Riffe Lake because it's open year round....
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/1/1997
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Rating: 5
Fished: 11/1/1997
Hot Spots: 0
Last fished during November 97, I caught 6 smallmouth to 4lbs. Hooked and lost either a smallie or largemouth which probably was better than 4. Also hooked and lost what I thought was a bir coho. ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/1/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was very spotty today.Fished from 8am to a little after 5pm on the dam side of the lake. Put 11 silvers in the boat between 13 to 18 inches.Trolled worm harnesses with either a worm or a worm ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/22/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/29/2006
Hot Spots: 0
I fished this lake in 05, I had been fishing for steelhead on the cowlitz and had put on a small spinner and fished from the bank. I couldn't reel in without geting a landlocked salmon. this woud be a...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/24/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/13/2006
Hot Spots: 0
The water level is still very low we stopped by the bridges and it looked like a small river, went up to the dam and fished, the water was clean but not much went on. In fact, nothing went on except ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/30/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/27/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing at the dam on Riffe for some silvers and found it to be very slow. The water level is still very low, roughly 15 feet below full. Usually over Memorial Day weekend the lake is full and th...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/31/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/29/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Well after too many days of rain we hit the lake at about noon on memorial day. The launch was very busy but we waited our turn and finally got out. We snaked our way through the dead-heads to the nor...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/19/2006
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Rating: 1
Fished: 6/18/2006
Hot Spots: 0
What do people see in this lake. Out fo 4 hrs this morning not so much as a bite. spend half the time dodging logs and boats. People need to learn how to launch and load boats in a timely manner.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/19/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/18/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Riffe at the dam and had an ok experience. Ive been fishing this lake for 4 years now, this was one of the slower times. There was about 30 bank fishermen at the dam, all throwing shrimp or wor...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/21/2006
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Rating: 2
Fished: 6/21/2006
Hot Spots: 0
June 21st---lauched at about 0600 and left at 0900. Landed one small coho (note: no kokanee in this lake contrary to what most say). Missed several strikes. Wind came up and we got cold. Talked to peo...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/25/2006
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Rating: 1
Fished: 6/24/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Very Slow fishing,Had very few take downs.Worse day i have ever had on this lake.Fish must be down deep.Used downriggers to 60 ft with no success.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/5/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Can you say Hot! No I'm not talking about the weather. We launched dad's thunderjet sled at Kosmos at 5:45 am, lake was quite rough, we started fishing at about 6am, a bluegill, a perch, and several s...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/6/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/6/2006
Hot Spots: 0
got there after the wind quit for the day, fished shallows around the komos area. we caught a few small bass , and silver. Then after changing to perch jointed Rapala I started trolling about 2 miles...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/12/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/9/2006
Hot Spots: 0
man the weather was teribly hot and the fishin was kind of slow for me but saw lots of the other fisherman pulling in kokanees between 12-15 inches. I caut a few of them usind a white roster tail and...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/24/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/22/2006
Hot Spots: 0
went out at five in the morning in float tubes and it was pertty windy and lots of waves we lasted out there for about 2 hours and caught 1 18" land locked on shrimp and worms.that was it.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/30/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/28/2006
Hot Spots: 0
riffe is bass heavan, if you fish here enough to learn the winds. you need to start early for good sucess, or the best this time of the year is start as soon as the wind quits. we caugt several fish i...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/20/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 9/17/2006
Hot Spots: 0
A very good lake for Smallmouth Bass fishing. Water level was low as expected, fished the North side of the lake hitting all the points coming into the lake, paid special attention to the areas that h...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/29/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/28/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Lake is down about 15 to 20 feet from summer high with another 15 feet or so to go to the winter low. Kosmos ramp is still open, but not for long. Another couple feet of drawdown and this one will b...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/8/2001
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/8/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the west end of Riffe on Sunday 7/8/01 from 8:00 am - 1:30 pm and brought approx 15 fish to the boat. We kept 8 fish between the 2 of us with most of them going 12" - 17". Picked up a few in t...
