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By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/16/2021
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/16/2021
Hot Spots: 1
A three day weekend is too valuable to waste on choirs – right? Well, my wonderful wife JoAnn said “let’s go camping and fishing at Yale Reservoir”. You better bet I jumped at that offer! We packed up...
By: thaxor
Posted: 8/27/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/26/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was amazing, 10 first day (5pm launch), limited both days after, with 2 limits by 10am 8/26. Hot setup was 50/50 cowbell, 3oz weight 100' behind the boat with a custom #3 gold bladed pink hoot...
By: rseas
Posted: 6/6/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I don’t know where the time goes, I had more free time when I was working full time. Now that I’m retired I’m consistently looking for a spare moment. That said a day or two late but here it is. Satur...
By: floattubr
Posted: 5/23/2019
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/23/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Limited in two hours . Fat fish, very impressed with the size.
Early Bird gets the worm ...25-50' on downriggers
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/28/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/26/2018
Hot Spots: 1
Due to work schedules JoAnn and I were unable to make our long anticipated trip to Conconully (major bummer…) so instead we headed down I-5 and hit Yale and Merwin.
We hit the road at 3:30am and m...
By: chiwawadan
Posted: 5/22/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/19/2018
Hot Spots: 0
If you're going up the Lewis to the Reservoirs - skip Merwin. Second time spending the better part of a day with NO bites... maybe they're down on the west end of the lake, but they're NOWHERE near Sp...
By: hitman2
Posted: 4/23/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/22/2018
Hot Spots: 0
fished all day not even a take down
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/5/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/3/2017
Hot Spots: 1
I had the privilege of fishing the 2017 Yale Kokanee event “The Fallen Outdoors” with my friend Robbie (first mate) and three vets, Chris, Jason, and Misty. For those of you not familiar with this awe...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/30/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/27/2016
Hot Spots: 0
It was a rainy and cool Sunday but I had two die hard anglers with me to share the marginal weather. Randy (rseas) and Robbie joined me for a day of fishing for kokanee on Yale.
We arrived around 1...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/22/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/21/2016
Hot Spots: 3
What a wonderful day of fishing on Yale Reservoir!
JoAnn, the dogs, and I set off mid-day Saturday D/T the high heat conditions, knowing we would arrive late in the day. We figured things would hav...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/18/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
After struggling with the wind and poor fishing on Merwin, we decided to check out Yale Reservoir. Yale has huge numbers of kokanee, albeit smaller than Merwin. Last year I noted the fish had gotten i...
By: Travis Baley
Posted: 9/29/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished out of Yale park. Bite was great as the kokanee were very aggressive. Unfortunately I had issues with my kicker motor and had to run with just my electric trolling motor. I had to stay fairly c...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/10/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/10/2015
Hot Spots: 1
The last time JoAnn and I fished Yale was three years ago, and we didn’t fish it very long as the fish were running 8-9 inches in size. Lot’s of fish, no size. Because Merwin was fishing tough for us...
By: Travis Baley
Posted: 5/10/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Didn't get on the lake fishing until after 12. Trolled around a lot of the lake but the best bite was trolling parallel to shore on the far side across from Yale Park. Started with dodgers or sling bl...
By: Travis Baley
Posted: 2/25/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/19/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Trolled a fender setup with a pink UV wiggle hoochie tipped with corn. Fish were shallow. I had two on the boat in the first 45 minutes, then I went two hours before I hooked another. Lost a couple mo...
By: rickrws
Posted: 8/12/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got there real early and the fish where going crazy. I gat there at 7 am and limited out by 11am. Real overcast day the fish never stopped biting.
By: rickrws
Posted: 8/6/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/6/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Fished half the day. Wedding rings and corn. Caught one 10 incher and lost 2 at the boat. also caught a couple of small rainbows. I was fishing 45 to 60 feet deep with a rigger. The water was warm ...
By: Travis Baley
Posted: 6/5/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/2/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Fished right out in front of Yale Park. I trolled a little toward Swift with not much luck and little toward Merwin with a little better bite, but really the best fishing was right in front of the boa...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/17/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/8/2012
Hot Spots: 1
My wife and I fished Yale in the afternoon after limiting at Merwin. Ran down to the dam face and immediate started catching small 6-8" fish at varying depths. Tried bigger gear and faster trolling sp...
By: wallab44
Posted: 6/24/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/22/2011
Hot Spots: 3
Went to Merwin first and got skunked ! After 2 hours came here and had a fish in 5 minutes . Had 8 fish in 2 hours here but it got so rolly that it was not fun. Did 39-40 pulls with 2 oz of weight and...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/10/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/10/2011
Hot Spots: 3
Took my wife to Merwin and then came here for the other 11. Had a great time and non-stop action till we got down by the east end. We must have had 40 hits that stripped the corn off. The shoepeg corn...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/8/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/8/2011
Hot Spots: 1
Fished for 3 hours .Couldn't keep thje fish off ! Tho they are not as big as Merwin they put up a great fight. Had non-stop action . Weather was overcast and misty but wonderful for fishing.
By: wallab44
Posted: 6/5/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
tried to get there early but sun already was on the water. Managed only to get 3 kokes, about 5 takedowns, 2 keychain trout. BTW, my wife is the one who got em all. She was using a mini ford fender (a...
By: wallab44
Posted: 5/30/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Wasn't gonna go fishing because of the weather and went at last minute. Put up full bimini top and fished for about 4 hours. Got 9 kokes and 1 rainbow. All about 11 inches. Water got real smooth in ea...
By: wallab44
Posted: 5/16/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/16/2010
Hot Spots: 3
started fishing about 9 or 10 trying to figure out fishfinder (new) and setup poles (for my wife and I ). Horrible time to get going !!!!! Started up by houses and crossed over lake trolling half n...