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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/9/2004
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/9/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from about 0800 to 11ish and caught one silver (10") and that was it!! One other boat said they didn't catch anything. Waste of a day.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/17/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/17/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Well after doing some more research and found out that the state did plant brown trout in riffe ( last plant was in 2000 which they put in about 4500) not many for a lake this size the last creel cens...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/23/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/23/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 1100 till 1530. Caught many smallmouth, none bigger than 12". Had a big one on, but broke it off. Lake is VERY low, hopefully it will be higher later in the year. I would say it is 25' l...
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...
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: 6/29/2005
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/25/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled the NE section of the lake for Silvers with mixed results. Tons of fish out there, big ones too. They just kept jumpin' off the hooks. Landed an 18" Silver with a red wedding ring and a litt...
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: 7/17/2005
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2005
Hot Spots: 0
went just above the fishing bridge. one nice trout cought about 18in or so. but we got alot of small cat fish. but we didn't get any keepers well not that we wanted to clean. any body know i riffe has...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/30/2005
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/29/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Hi everyone!
Fishing the cosmo's boat launch end i itied into some great small mouth bass fishing.The water temperature at surface was 72.5 degrees.Sonar indicated the fish were holding off of wee...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/21/2005
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/19/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing around 8am. Very windy with a lot of chop. Trolled around the dam end of lake with 1 ounce of weight at 25 to 30 pulls using a Jack of Diamonds with a green wedding ring and shoepeg ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/1/2006
Species:
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
Species:
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
Species:
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
Species:
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...
