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By: Rocketvet
Posted: 1/30/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/30/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Melissa and our trusty boat dogs headed to Merwin Tuesday morning to see if we could find any early season Kokanee. We were pelted by heavy rain the whole drive from Olympia. We actually made it to ...
By: BoxModBandito
Posted: 11/6/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/6/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Hi, maybe rating descriptions need some tweaking.
Worked Merwin for 6 hours, threw everything at the kokanee. Marked huge numbers of fish between 15' and 20' that refused to bite. Ran downriggers ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/5/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/4/2017
Hot Spots: 2
I got to fish Lake Merwin with my friends Robbie and Mark. Having fished Yale yesterday as part of The Fallen Outdoorsevent, we decided to hit Merwin and try for some bigger fish and a change of scene...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 3/17/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/16/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Luckily we heard about the landslide blocking access to Speelyai ahead of time and took a detour through Amboy. Sounds like it will be a while before the road will be cleared. Had lines in the water...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 3/9/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/8/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Let the snow melt before we headed out and had lines in the water by 1pm. Water is a bit murky but much better than last year early. Ramp and dock at Speelyai are very usable. 4 other trailers in t...
By: Sideburns
Posted: 9/4/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/3/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Hit lake merwin for the first time with a freind that has never kokanee fished before, and we were fishing sat morning at 6ish... launched at speelyai park. Started out with glow dodgers and glow wed...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 4/28/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/27/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got a late start on Merwin with the girlfriend. Fishing was tough. Talked to 3 other boats with blank numbers. Hooked and landed 1 12 in Kokanee and at least 12 Pikeminnow. Sometimes hard to tell ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/18/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Myself, Gringo Pescador, and Robbie got to join Luke Hatfield and his friend James on his boat to fish Merwin for some kokanee. Luke is one of our Facebook Fishing Group moderators and was gracious en...
By: flyfisherguy
Posted: 4/8/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/8/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Finally brushed the cobwebs off my kokanee gear and headed out to Merwin Lake to see if I could pick up a few for the grill. Beautiful day on the water, sunny skies with light winds. Trolled for about...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 3/31/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Busted out the Kokanee gear and drove down to Merwin to enjoy the beautiful day. Dropped in at Speelyai Bay and the reservoir is a murky torquoise shade with a lot of floating wood debris, some quite...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/10/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
This is a Tale of Two Lakes…
JoAnn and I got to fish one of our favorite lakes, Merwin, and as a bonus spent some time on Yale.
This report will be for Merwin.
We fished Saturday mid-morning, ...
By: flyfisherguy
Posted: 7/11/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Took the day off from work and decided to finish up my kokanee season at Merwin Lake. This turned out to be a very good decision. I arrived at the lake at approximately 7:30 a.m. and there were only 4...
By: JonathanI
Posted: 7/2/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/30/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went on my annual camping/fishing trip to Merwin with my oldest daughter Sun - Tues. We had a great time even though the fishing was not what we were used to over the past couple of years. We fished...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/30/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/29/2015
Hot Spots: 0
After persuading JoAnn that the heat wasn’t going to be as bad as predicted (97 degrees in the Woodland area) we drove down Saturday evening to find it a delightful mid 80s.
We fished Sunday morni...
By: rickrws
Posted: 5/4/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Merwin by myself today. Got there around 8 am. Did not catch anything til about noon. Then the bite turned on! I was using a sling Blade with a pink hoochy with corn. I was using a downrigg...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 1/25/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/24/2015
Hot Spots: 2
I've been hitting Merwin quite a bit in the kayak lately for kokanee in order to put together an instructional kayak fishing video on this fishery before the peak of the season begins. Saturday's weat...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 1/18/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/16/2015
Hot Spots: 1
We've had strong easterly winds that have kept me away from Merwin most of the year. Finally, saw an opportunity to get the kayak out on the water. The lake was glass most of the day and saw a school ...
By: strikezone
Posted: 11/25/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
We were fishing mainly for kokes which we were able to be quite sucessfull that day. Had a bunch to the boat. Ended up catching a nice tripiloid also that was a great bonus. Great day to be on the wat...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/26/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/25/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Our last overnight boat camping trip of the year, and JoAnn wanted to go back to Lake Merwin. I can’t blame her. It’s pretty lake and as summer ends and school starts back up the crowds thin out a bit...
By: Fishfreak12
Posted: 8/4/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/3/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Got an early start. Made it down to the dam by 5:30 am and got into fish immediately. The bite lasted until about 7:30. Had to work for the rest but my wife and I limited out on kokanee by 12:45. Fi...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/30/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/28/2014
Hot Spots: 2
JoAnn and I made our annual trip down to Merwin to target the kokanee this weekend. We fished from Saturday to Monday morning. The weather started out rainy on Saturday , improved on Sunday, and was ...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 5/18/2014
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/17/2014
Hot Spots: 3
Did the Merwin Excursion with my 3 amigos. 1st trip to merwin this year. Merwin is down 8 feet. Don't know why..but there were koke folks everywhere. Crazy Parametic and I missed 2 muskies. ALWAYS wa...
By: Northriverkilla
Posted: 3/23/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/22/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished across from Speeylai bay and no action. We were flat lining and using down riggers 30-10 ft on the wire. We moved west down towards the dam trolling .9-1.7 mph with no luck. We picked up and ...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 12/20/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I always have a difficult time rating my experience on any one lake. Do you rate based on quantity or quality? Sometimes one good fish is all it takes to make the difference between "meh" and "hell ye...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 11/17/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
A friend and I fished Merwin today from our kayaks. We were targeting primarily kokanee. I was running two rods with a long-lined rod at 100' no weight and a green Shasta tackle dodger with a green sp...
