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By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/29/2006
Species:
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: 5/27/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/26/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at the dam end of Riffe about 9 am.Trolled numerous spots on both sides of the lake.Water is down about 20 ft.Fished for a couple of hours with only one hit on a worm harness with shrimp and ...
By: Easy Limits
Posted: 6/11/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/8/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to Riffe to do a little camping and fishing over the weekend. We arrived at the lake around 4PM Friday afternoon. My wife and I decided to put the boat in the water so I could get a little...
By: CK14
Posted: 7/2/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/1/2007
Hot Spots: 0
had a club tourney on riffe on the 30th and 1st. the first day everyone did pretty well. i got my limit before 8:00 and my dad could only get 2 to the boat. he had 3 good fish get off. we got all our ...
By: columbiafan04
Posted: 7/10/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/7/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Well, fished Riffe last Saturday at the dam and did ok. My dad and I landed 3 silvers in an hour and a half, ranging from 8 to 12 inches. Had a ton of bites, but awfully hard to hook up with the water...
By: Poacher Hater
Posted: 7/12/2007
Species:
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/12/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Riffe was the usual Riffe.......horrible.......As I was launching at about 9am a guy came in and said he didn't even get a bite. So, I tried the flats by Swofford for bass and nothing. Trolled a bit f...
By: Bob R
Posted: 7/17/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/7/2007
Hot Spots: 0
,hit the lake early,(6:00a.m.) slow trolling, picked up about 6 fish, kept 3, two8inchers that were bleeders, one about12 inches that was decent, released the rest . Shrimp and worms were the bait.I m...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/17/2007
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/17/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Our long anticipated yearly boat/camping trip. James and I arrived Sunday evening, just enough time to find a quiet cove and anchor up for the night and watch our DVD. Great evening sunset!
The mo...
By: guyara
Posted: 8/6/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/5/2007
Hot Spots: 0
WOW, the wind can sure be a force to reckon with on this lake! We got on the lake about 10 am and the wind was strong most of the day. There were calm times for about 30 mins here and there where we t...
By: danielt
Posted: 9/3/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/3/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Didnt get to fish for too long but boated a few good smallies.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/28/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I started out with a couple spinnerbaits and roadrunners but NOT A NIBBLE so I switched to a nightcrawler and walked up and down the water line (sulfurcreek) and ended up hooking a 11' catfish (bullhe...
By: fishermick
Posted: 6/9/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/8/2008
Hot Spots: 2
It was a father son camping trip. 3 dads & 3 sons. Hit the lake about 4:30 Sat. afternoon. Ended up w/ 5 kokanee in an hour. Next day, hit the water about 10:30 after we got the kids fed and of my gos...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/13/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Had A great day Wednesday June 4 2008 caught our limits spent 4hours first 3 hours where very slow that 3to 4 pm hit them hard what and great day spending time with the grandson went Wednesday June 11...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/16/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
The lake was a little lower than I had hoped but we still got to our spot at 7:30. I hooked our first fish with a no.5 red and white Mepps spinner, a 15 inch fat wild rainbow clobbered it in 5 feet of...
By: Poacher Hater
Posted: 6/17/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went on my yearly Riffe visit today. On the water by 0615 and off water one hour later. Lake is full and water temp about 49 degrees. Trolled dam area with wedding ring tipped with worm/maggot gulp. N...
By: Poacher Hater
Posted: 6/18/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went back today after yesterdays fishless trip. This time I launched at Taidnapam Park. In only a little over one hour I caught two silvers. One was smallish and the last one hit as I was nearing the ...
By: Bis
Posted: 7/4/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake at about 8:00 am. It was a bit windy but not too busy. Trolled for most of the day and came home with a few nice fish. One 1.5 lb rainbow and 14" Kok. A very relaxing day!! A little slow ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/4/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Riffe around 7 A.M. and there was no one coho fishing except my boat. We killed 10 fish in about 2 hours and they were still biting when we left. They seemed to take anything that a typical c...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/31/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/31/2008
Hot Spots: 0
We were at the lake several weeks ago and caught two and lost one good sized silver. Has anyone been there lately? No one has made any comments since early July. We plan to go up in the next couple...
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: Anonymous
Posted: 8/9/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
After reading the advice I received from some other fishermen who wrote to me earlier, I tried out their suggestions. It worked great. My grandson and I went to Riffe lake August 3rd and caught our ...
By: lori
Posted: 8/12/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
We got on the lake at 9am ,it was windy over cast not a nice day at all , trolled a lot with only 2 SM to show for it,about 9" on a green wedding ring ,C&R those hoping for better but it didn't happen...
By: T.Money
Posted: 8/15/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went camping at Riffe to do some fishing and tubing with the kids. We were there August 8-11th. We trolled home made gang trolls that I made before we left. I put five spinner blades and red beads ...
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...
