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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/28/2010
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My Buddy Doug and I arrived at the North end of Riffe Lake around 8am. There was quite a bit of logs floating in the water, which we managed to manuever through without breaking a pin.
I was running...
By: jens
Posted: 7/21/2009
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
We arrived just in time at Kosmos. A tournament was under way and we arrived right after the last boat launched. We headed towards the Fishing Bridge at Taidnampam. I anchored about 50 yards in fro...
By: Yakivegas
Posted: 5/24/2009
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/23/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Mossyrock side of the lake.The fishing was very sporadic,and the fish were very small for this lake.I tried fishing on top,with leadcore,and even went down on a downrigger to find bigger fi...
By: jens
Posted: 5/25/2009
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Myself and fellow walakes angler, MattyG, arrived at the Fishing bridge a little before 7a. The bridge wasn't too crowded when we arrived. The water level was a tad bit lower from my last trip here ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/9/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
After reading the advice I received from some other fishermen who wrote to me earlier, I tried out their suggestions. It worked great. My grandson and I went to Riffe lake August 3rd and caught our ...
By: stevoblue
Posted: 6/5/2009
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/3/2009
Hot Spots: 1
Was out on Riffe for two days. Went all over the lake, Morning to night. Primarily targeted the silvers. Tried every method suggested and known. Used worms, flashers, pop gear, downriggers, you name...
By: columbiafan04
Posted: 7/10/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/7/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Well, fished Riffe last Saturday at the dam and did ok. My dad and I landed 3 silvers in an hour and a half, ranging from 8 to 12 inches. Had a ton of bites, but awfully hard to hook up with the water...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/27/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/26/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at the dam end of Riffe about 9 am.Trolled numerous spots on both sides of the lake.Water is down about 20 ft.Fished for a couple of hours with only one hit on a worm harness with shrimp and ...
By: Easy Limits
Posted: 6/11/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/8/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to Riffe to do a little camping and fishing over the weekend. We arrived at the lake around 4PM Friday afternoon. My wife and I decided to put the boat in the water so I could get a little...
By: Bob R
Posted: 7/17/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/7/2007
Hot Spots: 0
,hit the lake early,(6:00a.m.) slow trolling, picked up about 6 fish, kept 3, two8inchers that were bleeders, one about12 inches that was decent, released the rest . Shrimp and worms were the bait.I m...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/4/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Riffe around 7 A.M. and there was no one coho fishing except my boat. We killed 10 fish in about 2 hours and they were still biting when we left. They seemed to take anything that a typical c...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/31/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/31/2008
Hot Spots: 0
We were at the lake several weeks ago and caught two and lost one good sized silver. Has anyone been there lately? No one has made any comments since early July. We plan to go up in the next couple...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/10/2003
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/10/2003
Hot Spots: 0
We got to the lake about 8:00 am and found at least 50 rigs/trailers in the parking lot. Found out later they were mostly the big Bass buggies heading way up lake to fish for smallmouth. We fished t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/8/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
PACKED UP THE KIDS AND TOOK OFF FOR THE BRIDGE. WELL REALLY WE HAD NO CLUE WHERE WE WERE GOING BUT WE ENDED UP AT THE BRIDGR ON RIFFE. IT LOOKED LIKE THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE ONLY AT THE END BY TH...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/13/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Had A great day Wednesday June 4 2008 caught our limits spent 4hours first 3 hours where very slow that 3to 4 pm hit them hard what and great day spending time with the grandson went Wednesday June 11...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/16/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
The lake was a little lower than I had hoped but we still got to our spot at 7:30. I hooked our first fish with a no.5 red and white Mepps spinner, a 15 inch fat wild rainbow clobbered it in 5 feet of...
By: Poacher Hater
Posted: 6/17/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went on my yearly Riffe visit today. On the water by 0615 and off water one hour later. Lake is full and water temp about 49 degrees. Trolled dam area with wedding ring tipped with worm/maggot gulp. N...
By: Poacher Hater
Posted: 6/18/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went back today after yesterdays fishless trip. This time I launched at Taidnapam Park. In only a little over one hour I caught two silvers. One was smallish and the last one hit as I was nearing the ...
By: Bis
Posted: 7/4/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake at about 8:00 am. It was a bit windy but not too busy. Trolled for most of the day and came home with a few nice fish. One 1.5 lb rainbow and 14" Kok. A very relaxing day!! A little slow ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/6/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/6/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Thought I would try Riffe after the 4th crowds left. Unfortunately the weather did a little decline from the great weekend. I got blown around pretty good by 11am left at noon. I did C & R 6 fish from...
By: USFisher20
Posted: 3/6/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/6/2009
Hot Spots: 1
Went to Riffe Lake portion of the Cowlitz River below the Cowlitz Falls Dam and above Taidenpam Park. Was hoping to get some landlocked silvers, but ended up with Rainbows. The water level is much low...
By: USFisher20
Posted: 3/10/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went back to Riffe Lake again, and smacked the fish again. Using a worm 3 inches from a corkie on a 24 inch leader, with 1 ounce of lead on the mainline. We ran hook sizes anywhere from 6-10. First th...
By: fishtremble
Posted: 3/26/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I went to the fishing bridge, at Taidnapam Park, started around 8:45 in the morning. I got there around 8:15, but the gate was still closed. It was overcast. I fished the pools just upstream of the...
By: Poacher Hater
Posted: 6/28/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Not a good day for everyone I talked to including me. Fished many hours on the dam end of lake and only caught one (released). There was a cold front moving in last night/this morning and it killed th...
By: drunkmonkey
Posted: 6/4/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Bought a new (to me) boat and decided to try it at Riffe. Took it out and decided that it was trolling too fast. Slapped on a trolling plate that I just happened to have in the truck (grin) and it s...
