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By: TrollNFisher
Posted: 3/20/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
20 Mar 2011 started 0950, trolled next to the dam and northwest started out trolling free lining out the back trolled florescent green wedding band behind a 6 inch dodger tipped with pink Berkley’s ma...
By: bodyfisher
Posted: 11/12/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Alder twice this week to fish for spawning kokanee. My personal opinion is that it is the most stupidly easy fishing in the world. Any spoon or spinner with lots of color and flash will get th...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/28/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Alder at 8:30 with a couple buddies. Neither of us had fished this lake before so we didn't know what to expect. So we threw on some flashers. Were marking fish around 40'when we got there . D...
By: quaddaddy
Posted: 5/25/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2013
Hot Spots: 3
First time at Alder Lake and it's a very nice lake. Fishing was slow in the morning but it was very cold and a pretty good wind was blowing. Around 10 am the tide turned and we put 10 Kokanee and 1 Ra...
By: skunked
Posted: 6/14/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The kids and I arrived at Alder lake about 6a.m. The fishing was really good but was not able to catch anything over 12 inches. We used everything Ford Fenders with spinners Dodgers with spinners or h...
By: Hunter757
Posted: 6/28/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/7/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Sorry for the late report, We decided to try Alder lake for kokes and see what our luck would bring us as my go to lake American has been in a slump. My son and I arrived around 9 am on the free fi...
By: Hunter757
Posted: 6/28/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/27/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Well we decided to give Alder another try and repeat the last trip we had. We arrived at the lake around 7am and no waiting and only a few other boats on the water. We headed out to the same spot, h...
By: Toni
Posted: 6/29/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/29/2015
Hot Spots: 3
The lake level is very low. Most of the boat launches are closed even the swimming areas. Kim (pinkpole) and I launched and started fishing about 7am.
We had bites consistently and had lots of lit...
By: Sheepdog981
Posted: 7/4/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at 0530. Trolled from the launch to the dam and caught one piss ant of a Kokanee that fought my son like it was a trophy sockeye. Ultra light rods make this species a lot more fun!
We then...
By: Hunter757
Posted: 7/4/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/3/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Well we headed back to Alder lake again for another round. Got there a little late around 9ish or so. The level is getting low so the launch is almost done. It was crystal clear when we arrived an...
By: Hunter757
Posted: 7/8/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/7/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Well the kid got off work early and wanted to go fishing. So we headed to Alder for one last try and it was a bust! We caught two little perch and one 11" cutt that came home with us as it was hooke...
By: RS0530
Posted: 7/19/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/19/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Went out in hunt of Kokanee for my first time and took two friends. On the lake around 8a off around 3p. Tried multiple offerings at different depths. My fish finder is VERY old and a new one is comin...
Posted: 7/24/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/7/2015
Hot Spots: 3
I went out to alder lake. I was using a sling blade and wedding ring tipped with some worms. Set the downrigger on my kayak to 25 ft and trolled around. There were not very many people on the lake p...
By: Hunter757
Posted: 2/29/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/29/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Well looked like a nice day to get some fishing in so we headed to Alder to give it a try. Arrived around 11 am to find the lot half full of trucks with boat trailers.....Turns out the Sheriffs were ...
By: Toni
Posted: 4/6/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/5/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Alder Lake 4-5-16
Today was the shakedown cruise for Kim (pink pole) and me. She brought her grandson Terrence along. I have had troubles replacing the keel guard, fixing the kicker motor, and with t...
By: jimdixon
Posted: 7/28/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/25/2012
Hot Spots: 2
had a day off and woke up late. started fishing around 10am. caught one small kokanee off the boat launch. decided to go to mouth of little nisqually and fished all around the no wake zone to finger l...
By: Lou Smith
Posted: 8/18/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/17/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Alder Lake has had a 10 kokanee limit for years in an attempt to reduce the population and allow the remaining fish to grow larger on the limited plankton available. Today I saw the classic example wh...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/9/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
JoAnn and I got to fish with Lou Smith from the site today. I was pretty pumped up about catching tons of kokanee as I had heard the lake holds a lot of them, although on the smaller size. Figured we ...
By: Travesty 85
Posted: 11/4/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Over all great day of fishing. Set in around 11am and fished till dark. Spent some time trolling around the lake with a down rigger ranging from 30-45'. First time fishing this lake and at first was n...
By: Racer
Posted: 6/4/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy and I decided to go to Alder today as we haven't been there in quite awhile. We got to the lake about 7:30 and went to the dam to start. It was slow to start but then we found the combo they ...
By: Roosterpie
Posted: 6/7/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Alder. Wanted to skip opening day mayhem on the rivers. Weather was great with great views. Never fished Alder before. Got out a little before six. Launched at Alder Lake Park. Trolled until ab...
By: Silverseeker
Posted: 6/10/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My fishing partner and I hit the lake about 7a m and caught our first Kokanee at 7:20am just under 10in in front of the dam. It was pretty cold and breezy in the morning but cleared off nice at noon. ...
By: 05cr125r
Posted: 8/8/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished yesterday and today for Kokanee while staying at Alder Lake...i was trolling Kokanee pop gear with a wedding ring rigged with a treble hook, and using Gulp maggots. Saw many fish jump and had ...
By: vevalachris
Posted: 9/2/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/31/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Launched out of Alder Lake State Park. Out of the launch we hung an immediate left and began to troll along the shore in a counter close wise direction in what I would call an inlet. Water temp was ab...
By: iraru4
Posted: 9/25/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/25/2013
Hot Spots: 3
went to alder today @ 9:30 and fished for Kokes with orange wedding ring and maggot, had our limit in 45 minutes all nice bucks about 11 to 13 inches, That's the good news, bad news is when I returned...
