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Posted: 6/16/2021
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/16/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Alder Lake has been fishing so well I decided to take my friend Aaron out with me. It was his first time fishing. It was a great time and he caught his first fish. He also learned to clean and fillet ...
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Posted: 6/21/2021
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/21/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water a little after 7 AM. Calm day with very little wind. Trolled a few different offerings and it didn’t seemed to matter as long as it was pink. Had our best luck with pink and white ...
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By: Toni
Posted: 7/4/2021
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/4/2021
Hot Spots: 1
We got to the lake about 7:30am. There weren’t a lot of vehicles which was a BIG change from last year, covid year. While prepping in the parking lot, at the back of the boat my son said to me “it...
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By: Toni
Posted: 5/30/2021
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/30/2021
Hot Spots: 3
We were on the lake from 8-11am. The water temp was 60 degrees. The air temperature, by the time we left was 65 degrees because it was overcast. The pool level was 1,196.63 feet of elevation (maximum ...
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By: scottro
Posted: 7/26/2022
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/24/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Bright sun and still waters, it was another bang up kinda day. Brought a friend for the slayfest, 2 limits made it on board and a couple cutty's. Some 13" and some stalky 14.5" out there, fishing 3...
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By: scottro
Posted: 8/1/2022
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/30/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Not a bad start to the day for a few hrs of fish'n. Between friend and I we boated 11 kokes- 1 cutty. Sunny and no wind . Had to leave early but good thing because it started turning into a zoo abo...
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By: Toni
Posted: 8/22/2022
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/19/2022
Hot Spots: 1
My son Adam took me fishing (I only caught 1) while he did the catching. This is the first time he has fished on Alder. We came years ago but the level was too low for launching my boat so we went to ...
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By: Toni
Posted: 9/8/2022
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/5/2022
Hot Spots: 1
My son took me fishing on this Labor Day 2022. He was doing the catching. Of course, I had the cameras on my lines that showed the fish I hooked, and didn’t know about. Probably due to me netting his ...
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By: Toni
Posted: 9/11/2022
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/9/2022
Hot Spots: 2
My son Bo schooled me again in catching and bites…he had a few doubles, too. We were at the lake from 8am to 1:30pm. When we got there the water temperature was 68 and 70 when we left. It was sunny bu...
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By: Toni
Posted: 5/21/2023
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2023
Hot Spots: 1
My son forgot to set his alarm so we got a late start. Also, I found that I had a low tire on my vehicle which needed to be taken care of. We got to the launch and the parking lot was filling up. Lake...
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By: Toni
Posted: 5/27/2023
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/25/2023
Hot Spots: 2
We fished from 8am to 1pm. The pool level had gone up a few feet to 1,203.49 from last week and the temperature was down to 63. The air temp was about 55 when we got there but 70 or above when we le...
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By: Toni
Posted: 6/3/2023
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2023
Hot Spots: 1
We got to the lake about 7:30am and there were 2 other vehicles in the parking lot. We launched and were fishing by 8. It was a partly cloudy, breezy cool morning. The water felt warm at 63 degrees. T...
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By: Toni
Posted: 6/28/2023
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/27/2023
Hot Spots: 2
My son, Adam, and I started fishing about 8:30am and within a few minutes he brought in a Cutthroat. About a half hour later he brought in a Catfish (Brown Bullhead). When we got there, the lake ...
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By: cwbraue
Posted: 9/9/2023
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/9/2023
Hot Spots: 0
FYI- the ramp at the far boat launch is closed, but you can still park and launch kayaks. This is my first time seriously fishing this lake. It took my quite a while to find some fish, about a mile fr...
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By: Toni
Posted: 5/1/2024
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/1/2024
Hot Spots: 0
I haven’t been out in the boat since Sept. 2023 so it was a shake down trip today with John Knudsen. It went OK except I forgot how to start my underwater video cameras. The water temperature was 52...
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By: Toni
Posted: 5/14/2023
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/12/2023
Hot Spots: 2
= This was my first time out since Oct 2022. We finally got on the water with lines in about 8:35am. Finishing at 10:30am. The lake level was at 1195.4 feet which is lower than last year. The wate...
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Posted: 7/16/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/13/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Got up to Alder for a nice afternoon/evening fish. Looking for trout, kokanee or possibly crappie. Ended up finding all three! Fishing with the NTO™Scent Spinner 2.0 in white with some hypervis ta...
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By: tombee77
Posted: 5/30/2022
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2022
Hot Spots: 1
After catching everything but kokanee the day before we decided to give Alder another try. This time, after catching a few small cutthroat trout we found the kokanee. All fish were no deeper than fi...
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By: Toni
Posted: 6/16/2022
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2022
Hot Spots: 2
We started fishing about 8am and quit around 12:30pm. We had clouds, heavy rain, and a little sun. The water temperature was 58. Since it was my birthday, I told my son he had to let me, at least, ...
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By: Toni
Posted: 6/19/2022
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/19/2022
Hot Spots: 1
We started fishing about 7:30am with many other people. But not like in years past. We quit around 11:30am. The water temperature was 57.9 to start and 58.2 when we left. We longlined and used the ...
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By: Toni
Posted: 7/7/2022
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/5/2022
Hot Spots: 2
John and I started fishing about 7:30am. We finished around 1:30pm. The water temp when we started was 66 and at the end it was 67. The weather was mostly cloudy but when the sun came out it was hot...
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By: Toni
Posted: 5/27/2022
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/27/2022
Hot Spots: 4
My son and I got to the lake at 8am. We quit at 11. The weather was cloudy and sometimes windy. The water temperature was 58.5 degrees. The pool level was 1,199.67 feet and there were a few trees fl...
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By: Toni
Posted: 5/30/2022
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/30/2022
Hot Spots: 1
My son and I started to fish about 8am and we quit just after 11. The level of the lake was 1199.67 feet. Bo was the first to catch and the most. His first fish was a kokanee. I didn’t do as well o...
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By: tombee77
Posted: 5/29/2022
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2022
Hot Spots: 0
While trolling for kokanee I ended up catching a Brown Bullhead Catfish, Smallmouth Bass, and Cutthroat Trout all on kokanee gear. The video speaks for itself.
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Posted: 5/28/2021
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/28/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Alder Lake for the first time this morning. Once I located the fish, the action was pretty consistent. Ended up with 3 kokes and 4 cutthroat and caught and released a bonus smallmouth
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