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Posted: 4/28/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
WHOA!! What a morning headed out to Riffe Lake and fished the Mossy Rock Dam Fishn area near the damn both sides Severe winds and rain storming about half hour or so toughed it out and then got sunny ...
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By: bryanpeck
Posted: 7/10/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/8/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Got a late start and wasn't on the water until 8:00 or 8:30. Spent most of my time trolling in the vacinity of the dam. Watched the video so I started out with all things green. Had a few short srtike...
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By: Nangusdog
Posted: 2/17/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/17/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Great day fishing with my daughter, the "fish wisperer" at the Dam on Riffe Lake...she couldn't keep them off her line. We both got a limit, but it took us a couple hours as they were pretty difficult...
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Posted: 7/14/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/28/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Got out on the lake about 8:30 with my 2 son in-laws initially the bite was really slow then it heated up close to noon. We were 1 short of our limit when we called it quits for the day. 7 coho 8-10 i...
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Posted: 7/14/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/11/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Two of us got to the lake around 8:00 am and out on the water by 8:30. We went up to the low water floats and fished the same way we did a couple of weeks ago trolling with a 3 oz weight, 4 inch dodg...
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By: the doc
Posted: 6/17/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
No fish at cosmos end of lake. too warm i think. Jeff and I put in at mossyrock dam. we talked to a few other fishers, who did not have very good reports. the few fish being caught, were "shakers" one...
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By: BOX-BAR
Posted: 4/8/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/8/2015
Hot Spots: 3
FYI - For those that haven't put their boat in the water as yet and are thinking of fishing the east end of Riffe Lake, be advised the fishing bridge, adjacent to the 108 bridge (Champion Haul Road) i...
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Posted: 6/22/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Tried to buy a used Boat motor from a classified and needed to be in the area the guy really odd about meeting up had to go to base ball games etc etc and we just had to wait for his convenient ti...
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Posted: 6/9/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/6/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Drove down late Saturday to try out Riffe Lake for the first time. Put in at about 6:30 pm at the Taidnapam Park boat launch. Trolled a Wedding ring with holographic blade on it and pop gear. Bait was...
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By: yknjack
Posted: 8/22/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/20/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Followed the posting by OldVet and used a downrigger 80 ft down and 100 feet back and I trolled a pink hoochie behind a Dodger. Limited in 3 hours. In front of the dam and up the side by the highway. ...
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Posted: 8/8/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/8/2015
Hot Spots: 2
So...my step dad and I went out fishing for some Kokanee...well it didn't go to well. Motor wasn't running worth crud and the wind blew us to shore a few times...I now have zero faith in 2smoke motor...
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By: cwbraue
Posted: 9/23/2023
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/23/2023
Hot Spots: 0
This was the worst day of great fishing ever. Everything went wrong that could including finding access areas all locked, falling off the bank with the kayak and with lots of mud, lost all my best lur...
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Posted: 7/16/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/16/2017
Hot Spots: 0
1 fish shy of limiting out. Fished on the south west end of the lake where Swafford flows into the lake. had to fight to keep the shakers off.... Gulp pink worm pinches 70 pulls back a wiggle Hochee...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/11/2005
Species: Catfish
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/10/2005
Hot Spots: 0
went to the riffe lake fishing bridge. not a lot of action. went to the cowlitz falls dam. ended up with 6 catfish. i seen a few other people getting them to. the kokanee were not biting. but did see ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/17/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2005
Hot Spots: 0
went just above the fishing bridge. one nice trout cought about 18in or so. but we got alot of small cat fish. but we didn't get any keepers well not that we wanted to clean. any body know i riffe has...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/30/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/29/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Hi everyone! Fishing the cosmo's boat launch end i itied into some great small mouth bass fishing.The water temperature at surface was 72.5 degrees.Sonar indicated the fish were holding off of wee...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/21/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/19/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing around 8am. Very windy with a lot of chop. Trolled around the dam end of lake with 1 ounce of weight at 25 to 30 pulls using a Jack of Diamonds with a green wedding ring and shoepeg ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/29/2000
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/29/2000
Hot Spots: 0
A couple of us trolled the two islands to the right of the boat launch early that evening. Didn't have much strikes, except for a few silvers until the sun started going down when I pulled in a 6lb s...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/22/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/22/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Riffe about Two in the afternoon and had our limit of Silvers by 5pm. We trolled fairly fast in 60-100 ft. of water. We used leaded line with a Double wammy on one pole and Wedding ring on the oth...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/6/2000
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Rating: 2
Fished: 5/6/2000
Hot Spots: 0
WATER STILL LOW AT MOSSY ROCK DAM ON THIS DATE BUT GOT IN OK. FISHED ALL DAY USING THE USUAL SHRIMP/WORM COMBO WITH WEDDING RING BOLO FLASHERS COULDN'T GET MY SMALL MOTOR STARTED SO HAD TO TROLL A LI...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/29/1999
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/29/1999
Hot Spots: 0
Yes, I would have to agree with Fishin Diva since I was in the same boat. I can attest to the fact she used everything in the tackle box. Fish just not biting yet, but look out when they do!
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/29/2000
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/29/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Launched boat at 10:30 from west end, windy and water chop. Trolled for 2 hours, no bites. Plunked fished on south side of lake, one bite. Other boats passed by, nobody had caught anything or at lea...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/22/2000
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/22/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled around island and in front of the dam had only two bites. Fished for 4 hours.
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/15/2000
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Rating: 2
Fished: 4/15/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Slow, slow, slow. This lake is something else. The size of the lake has a lot to do with not being consistent. From the grass flats near the campground to the 462 foot depth toward the dam, this rese...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/26/2000
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Rating: 1
Fished: 2/26/2000
Hot Spots: 0
This was the first time I fished this Lake and I was not impressed, first off when going to the boat ramp on the east end of the lake the road is washed out with no boat ramp access. This holds true f...
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