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By: OldVet
Posted: 7/29/2017
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/26/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Great morning on the lake. Fished with riggers 80 down and 100 back. Used small pink hoochies with shoepeg corn.
By: mymannin
Posted: 7/5/2017
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
A little late on the report but Riffe didn't disappoint last Saturday.. The fish where much larger than past seasons. We took home 6 in a few hours of fishing.
We got on the water around 230pm....
By: Fisheries24
Posted: 7/14/2017
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/12/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I give this a 4 rating mainly because the fish are so nice this year. Many are 16-17 inches and pretty heavy too. Fished the Mossyrock end of the lake about 30-40 feet down. Slow troll at around 1mph....
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 8/25/2017
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/21/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with fishing partner, 'Motorboat'.... made the 2.5 hr. drive to Riffe lake. The lake is VERY low currently, and the launch was a bit interesting. You back down, very steeply, what must be lik...
By: Billm
Posted: 9/6/2017
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/5/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Thought we would try Riffe Lake for perhaps one final time this year. It had been a few weeks since I was there last. The water has dropped significantly. Last time the new addition to the dock at ...
By: PhishnPhool
Posted: 5/31/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/17/2018
Hot Spots: 0
First time ever fishing at the dam. Ended up using 3/8 oz Steelie lure and started catching nice silvers. Had to make a lot of casts, most fish caught near the surface and fast retrieve. Bait did noth...
By: PhishnPhool
Posted: 5/31/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/17/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the dam area for the first time. Quality of fish caught was impressive! All were coho/silvers I was told by some of the locals.
Bait fishing sukked.
3/8oz hammered silver Steelee spoon was th...
By: MartyH
Posted: 6/1/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/31/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Put in at Mossyrock park, the new boat launch at the park is awesome. Went right to the dam, and used dodgers and pink hoochies along with dyed corn to catch a limit of 10. (2 fishing) We caught 3 v...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/17/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2018
Hot Spots: 2
I met up with my friends Robbie and Luke from the NWFR group (he moderates our Facebook group page and is an expert angler when it comes to hunting kokanee and silvers). Our target was the landlocked ...
By: Markin' Fish
Posted: 6/30/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/30/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Headed to Riffelake for my annual father-son fishing trip. The fishing wasn’t as hot as it was last year but we did manage quite a few Coho and small Kings. For every 14-17” we caught we weeded throug...
By: comanderkeen
Posted: 7/27/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/21/2018
Hot Spots: 2
trolling down the right side of the lake straight out of the boat launch by the dam(downwind). using 2-3 ounces of weight with cowbells followed by a wedding ring with a bit of orange power bait. cau...
By: comanderkeen
Posted: 7/31/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/30/2018
Hot Spots: 0
we were trolling with down riggers. set depth around 65 feet between the launch at Mossyrock park and the island. trolled at about 5 on the minkota. The cross wind was a little tricky, kept trying to...
By: comanderkeen
Posted: 9/17/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/16/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Scattered showers with sun breaks, variable wind, some chop, water temp 67 degrees.
Put in at the dam around 10:30 am. Trolled the Swafford bay area until around 1:30. Fish were at about 80 to 100 ft...
By: fishtremble
Posted: 12/8/2014
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I tried some fishing at the Mosseyrock Dam fishing area, off of Highway 12. It was overcast and windy. The fishing calendar rated it a Fair day. I got there at 10:30 in the morning. I counted four...
By: fishtremble
Posted: 6/4/2014
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I went fishing at the Mosseyrock Dam fishing area, off of Highway 12, yesterday evening. It was sunny with a little wind blowing. The fishing calendar rated it a Poor day. I got there at 5:00 in th...
By: Yakivegas
Posted: 6/5/2014
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Reports a little late,but Ive been a little busy this week.Needed a road trip bad to break my busy schedule.Hooked up the brown bomber and shot over the pass to Riffe.I launched at the free launch whe...
By: chefjosh
Posted: 6/22/2014
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This Place is amazing you have to go, at Riffe Lake there are so many salmon to catch, always go to the fishing bridge it is the best place to be you can catch your limit of 5 silver salmon in just ab...
By: laketroll
Posted: 5/6/2015
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/5/2015
Hot Spots: 1
My son and i hit the kosmos end of riffe about 2:00 oclock and had our limits of land-locked coho by 5:30..all were between 18 and 21 inches...got a little windy but we kept trolling hootchies and pre...
By: laketroll
Posted: 5/6/2015
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2015
Hot Spots: 1
fished from 6:00 pm till sundown and had to work at it on the dam....seen big schools of nice fish but they swam right by the bait, worms, shrimp and lures.....ended up with 2 nice land-locked coho......
By: laketroll
Posted: 5/9/2015
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/9/2015
Hot Spots: 1
got to taidnapam boat launch at 5:30 am and back on the trailer heading home by 9:30 with 2 limits...we used hoochies with divers and had hits the whole time....smallest fish was 13" and the best one ...
By: laketroll
Posted: 5/10/2015
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/10/2015
Hot Spots: 3
another nice early morning on riffe....had limit by 7:30...caught all on a homemade lure....all 5 fish were 17 to 21 inches and first bite in the morning i lost a big fish, not sure what it was but wa...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 5/16/2015
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I kayak fished Riffe Lake for the first time ever. I did quite a bit of research on the lake before heading out and consider myself a skilled kokanee fisherman so I had high hopes. I also was hoping t...
By: laketroll
Posted: 5/18/2015
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/18/2015
Hot Spots: 1
got to the lake at daylight and trolled pink hootchies for 3 fish then got blew off the lake.....thunder and lightening..not a good combo but the 3 fish i did catch were all over 17 inches
By: laketroll
Posted: 5/19/2015
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/19/2015
Hot Spots: 1
awesome day for land-locked coho again...pink hoochies behind flashers and divers and caught a couple with a little cleo...my son met me there and we had limits in an hour...we seen some huge schools ...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 5/21/2015
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/21/2015
Hot Spots: 0
After having an absolute blast my last trip, limited in less than 1 hr, to Riffe Lake I was eager to return and try my luck again. I launched my kayak shortly after 7 AM on the east end of the lake. T...
