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Riffe Lake Report
Lewis County, WA

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05/19/2016
56° - 60°
Bottom Fishing From Shore
Salmon
Shrimp
Pink
Raining
Hook & Bait
All Day
05/24/2016
1
1947

Planned a 5 day trip to Riffe Lake. Towed a 20 ft jet to to Taidnipam Park from Tri-Cities. Found the lake level below the launches and all closed except for the Mossyrock launch at the end of the lake. The bay there was full of debris. Needless to say the we were disappointed and the grandkids were bumped. Had settle for the fishing bridge. Water was super low, at least 20 feet below high water marks. Fishing was slow. One an hour. Would have been useful for the park website to have had a notice that the launches were closed. Only saw one small boat on the lake in in 5 days.


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salmonkiller
5/24/2016 11:17:00 AM
Their website says its nearly full.. http://www.mytpu.org/tacomapower/parks-recreation/river-flows-lake.htm
I was planning on heading over there soon.. hope fully i can launch my boat!!
salmonkiller
5/24/2016 11:18:00 AM
There are two launched at the Taidnipam park.. one has been closed for a few months
JAYDOG
5/24/2016 11:31:00 AM
I'm headed to Taidnipam for Memorial weekend. Just called their recreational hotline (1-888-502-8690) and yes the level is down 20' from full, but the newer north ramp and Kosmo launch are both listed as usable......
salmonkiller
5/24/2016 11:40:00 AM
JayDog, I will be there this weekend too!! we are tent camping at Taidnipam.
wabowhunter
5/24/2016 2:01:00 PM
Well, I have been fishing it the last 2 days, with 2 rods... And have landed 1 fish!! I fished at the dam yesterday from my boat and guy nothing!! Talked with a guy in the campground and he had had nothing this week.

I drove up to Taidnipam this morning to maybe launch there.. No go, South launch was totally loaded with logs and branches. Went in campground and it is closed, high and dry. Drive over to Kosom launch, talked to 3 old guys that were coming in, they had nothing and had ran up into river. They actually grounded in the way into launch.

Today, at least I didn't get skunked. I tried along the dam, along north shoreline, and over by swaford. Only the 1 fish!!

Bummer!!!

Maybe I will try Alder tomorrow instead??
Hunter757
5/24/2016 3:13:00 PM
The Taidnipam boat launch has only been open when lake is full pool. That has not happened in many years. That is why they built the new ramp just down the road. Full of logs that does happen from time to time but they are try and keep it clear. The Kosmos launch is use at your own risk not for me. Now at the other end of the lake there is a boat launch at the Tacoma park campground that has a dock on it but sometimes is not usable in low water, call and ask.

OP, really sorry to hear that fishing was bad.
Billm
5/24/2016 11:15:00 PM
The launch at Taidnipam closed about mid July last year while we were there camping. Hopefully it will open again once the lake level rises. Hope the fishing results now are not a forecast of the fishing this summer. Thanks for the reports.
cobrar543
5/25/2016 1:38:00 PM
Why not run over to Mayfield if Riffe is so down? Is it just as low?
stealth148
5/25/2016 5:05:00 PM
Mineral Lake is not that far from there and way better fishing at this time. Make the drive its worth it.
sickbayer
5/25/2016 5:26:00 PM
That sucks, thanks for the report I wont be heading there anytime soon.
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