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By: Yakhusker
Posted: 7/26/2019
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/25/2019
Hot Spots: 1
Fished July 22-25 and stayed at Mossyrock park. After getting campsite ready I headed out for an evening fishing trip and caught my limit of coho in about 2 hrs. Used a homemade chartreuse tube fly w...
By: Moomanchew
Posted: 8/23/2019
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/15/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Refurbished a small boat and took it out a few times letting each one of my kids ride in it. My wife caught the biggest Coho that week.
We trolled the lake at 1.5 mph about 40 ft down. Had success...
By: meatslayer
Posted: 9/1/2019
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/30/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on the lake at 12:30. The fish were deeper then last time I fished. Surface water was 70 degrees. Found fish at 60’ in 80-120’ of water. Caught 20 fish by 5:30 using downriggers trolling flash...
By: Mlmiller929
Posted: 9/4/2019
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/3/2019
Hot Spots: 0
First time poster here, be gentle! We launched at Mossyrock Campground at 12pm and caught our limit by 3pm. 6 keepers and we released 4 little babies so they could grow up. Trolled at 1.6 to 1.7mph at...
By: Sparky508
Posted: 5/24/2020
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/24/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Hit riffe lake, on the water at 7am lines in at 7:30. Lot of fish on the graph, from surface to 60 ft.
Trolled pink hoochies behind silver dodgers with dyed shrimp at about 1.5mph. 3 smaller fish ab...
By: Yakhusker
Posted: 5/28/2020
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/27/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Left early and headed to Mossyrock Park where we launched. Quite a few boats already on the water when we arrived. Started fishing at about 8:00am. Very windy in the morning and calmed down later in ...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 6/23/2020
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/19/2020
Hot Spots: 0
I took my good friend out for his first trip to Riffe lake. We arrived to the lake about 9 in the morning, there were rain clouds coming but the lake was as smooth as glass when we arrived. We found a...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/2/2020
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Riffe Lake looking for some coho. Managed to catch one for the day. Lots of triploids jumping. Took 5 of them home at 11 inches. 2 rainbows 15-17 inches. 2 small cutthroat 1 small chinook. I...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/25/2020
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/25/2020
Hot Spots: 0
A weekend of chasing solvers on Riffe ended up being a trout-fest. Whatever we threw and whatever depth it seemed there was a trout to intercept it. Since we were using bait we ended up keeping 15 tro...
By: JAYDOG
Posted: 6/3/2017
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/23/2017
Hot Spots: 0
So the wife and I spent the whole week leading up to Memorial Day at Riffe. Monday -Friday at Mossyrock, and Friday-Monday at Taidnapam. Lake levels being what they are (down 30') it is a whole new ...
By: JAYDOG
Posted: 6/18/2017
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/17/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Well talked the better half into going back to Riffe for fathers day weekend. After our trip there for memorial week, I had the itch to chase some more salmon and so did she.
We didn't launch unti...
By: mymannin
Posted: 7/5/2017
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
A little late on the report but Riffe didn't disappoint last Saturday.. The fish where much larger than past seasons. We took home 6 in a few hours of fishing.
We got on the water around 230pm....
By: Fisheries24
Posted: 7/14/2017
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/12/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I give this a 4 rating mainly because the fish are so nice this year. Many are 16-17 inches and pretty heavy too. Fished the Mossyrock end of the lake about 30-40 feet down. Slow troll at around 1mph....
By: mymannin
Posted: 7/24/2017
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/20/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Another good day at Riffe... Fish are definitely on average much larger. Best luck down deep on the cable between 75 and 35 feet with the usual mini quid and small flasher. The fish are there. Rum...
By: strikezone
Posted: 7/27/2017
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/25/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished till noon and managed to get our limits. Best lure was definitely a 2.8 inch perch colored OLD GOAT 1 LURE fished with 5 colors of leaded line out with 50 feet of mono attached to it and then a...
By: Taybrego31
Posted: 7/28/2017
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/28/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Riffe Lake today for some bank fishing, started at the dam off Hwy 12 at 8:15am. Used slip bobbers with nightcrawlers, shrimp and some krill oil. Fished various depths and tried bottom fishing t...
By: OldVet
Posted: 7/29/2017
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/26/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Great morning on the lake. Fished with riggers 80 down and 100 back. Used small pink hoochies with shoepeg corn.
By: PhishnPhool
Posted: 5/31/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/17/2018
Hot Spots: 0
First time ever fishing at the dam. Ended up using 3/8 oz Steelie lure and started catching nice silvers. Had to make a lot of casts, most fish caught near the surface and fast retrieve. Bait did noth...
By: PhishnPhool
Posted: 5/31/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/17/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the dam area for the first time. Quality of fish caught was impressive! All were coho/silvers I was told by some of the locals.
Bait fishing sukked.
3/8oz hammered silver Steelee spoon was th...
By: MartyH
Posted: 6/1/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/31/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Put in at Mossyrock park, the new boat launch at the park is awesome. Went right to the dam, and used dodgers and pink hoochies along with dyed corn to catch a limit of 10. (2 fishing) We caught 3 v...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/17/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2018
Hot Spots: 2
I met up with my friends Robbie and Luke from the NWFR group (he moderates our Facebook group page and is an expert angler when it comes to hunting kokanee and silvers). Our target was the landlocked ...
By: Markin' Fish
Posted: 6/30/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/30/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Headed to Riffelake for my annual father-son fishing trip. The fishing wasn’t as hot as it was last year but we did manage quite a few Coho and small Kings. For every 14-17” we caught we weeded throug...
By: comanderkeen
Posted: 7/27/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/21/2018
Hot Spots: 2
trolling down the right side of the lake straight out of the boat launch by the dam(downwind). using 2-3 ounces of weight with cowbells followed by a wedding ring with a bit of orange power bait. cau...
By: comanderkeen
Posted: 7/31/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/30/2018
Hot Spots: 0
we were trolling with down riggers. set depth around 65 feet between the launch at Mossyrock park and the island. trolled at about 5 on the minkota. The cross wind was a little tricky, kept trying to...
By: comanderkeen
Posted: 9/17/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/16/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Scattered showers with sun breaks, variable wind, some chop, water temp 67 degrees.
Put in at the dam around 10:30 am. Trolled the Swafford bay area until around 1:30. Fish were at about 80 to 100 ft...
