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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: 5/24/2006
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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: 5/22/2006
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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: 5/1/2006
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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: 8/21/2005
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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: 7/30/2005
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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: 7/17/2005
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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: 7/11/2005
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: 6/29/2005
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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: 7/17/2004
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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
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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: 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: 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: 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: 3/29/2004
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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
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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: 9/24/2003
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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
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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: 7/27/2003
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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: 7/26/2003
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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: 7/15/2003
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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
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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: 6/7/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/7/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from a boat near the dam, caught lots of Kokanee trolling wedding rings tipped with corn in the am. Switched over to floats and shrimp and fished about 20' down during the heat of the day and c...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/3/2003
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/3/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Riffe for the smallies on the kosmos end, no takes in about 2 hours of trying. grubs, crankbaits, spinnerbaits......nothing.
Just a reminder. These aren't kokanee in riffe. They are land ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/23/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/23/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Well, we started Friday morning by fishing Mineral Lake. The bite wasn't so good, so we decided to pack up and head to Riffe Lake. We arrived at Riffe, fished a little for bass and got some hits, but ...