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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Mike Carey
Posted: 2/6/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/3/2018
Hot Spots: 1
A break in the weather down south allowed for a winter fishing trip to Merwin for some tasty kokanee. My truck being in the shop, Rseas generously volunteered his boat and made the long drive from Bur...
By: Forester008
Posted: 2/21/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/20/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Had one nice 13" on right out of the gates but it was dead after that. Weather was cold and snowing, light east wind. Speelyai Bay Launch was a sheet of ice. Water levels were up from a couple weeks a...
By: Rocketvet
Posted: 3/3/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Had another great day of weather at Merwin today. Netted 10 in the 12.5-15 in range trolling from 9 am -2 pm. Left a little later from Olympia to let the roads warm up a bit. Even then it was still...
Posted: 4/12/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/10/2018
Hot Spots: 1
We fished Lake Merwin, it was a squally day with rain and sun. They are dropping the lake fast. We found a good bite closer to the west end of the lake and the fish were closer to the surface 10ft to ...
By: chiwawadan
Posted: 5/15/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/12/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Went out for a preview of Merwin as I'll be there for a 3-day fishing trip soon. It was the day of the derby, but we didn't participate.
Within 5 minutes we got one VERY small Kok and let it go at ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/28/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/27/2018
Hot Spots: 1
Day Two of our short Memorial Day trip had us fishing at Merwin. We ate in at the hotel and drove the 17 miles to Merwin. Arriving at 7:30am I was a bit surprised to see only 8-9 rigs in the parking l...
By: salmonkiller
Posted: 6/12/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/10/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We fished Merwin for the 1st time…
Arrived at Cresap bay campground Saturday, set up camp, launched the boat and did a little scouting around the lake.
Sunday we got soaked and ended up with 9.
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/18/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/15/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Got to the Lake at 5:30 and started up past the houses on the right. Had fish on every 15 minutes. Used red/white wedding rings and other various colors. Used 4 oz cannon balls and 48 pulls. On the do...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/27/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/26/2012
Hot Spots: 2
OK, I know the kings and coho are running strong in Puget Sound, and I really should be out there after them, but when WDFW upped the Merwin Lake limit to 10 a day I couldn’t pass up another trip. Plu...
By: Acefishon
Posted: 10/15/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well hit the res around 9am getting late start really did expect much thus time year.Its was raining it about time for that start at hatchery mouth outside spilyi got double lost one small.Then moved ...
By: eklarsen
Posted: 11/4/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/4/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Went out this afternoon. didn't have great expectations as I had expected the spawn to be full on. Fished for 2-3 hours and caught 3 small Kokanee. Great fighters had fun. Fished across the lake from ...
By: lbcatcher
Posted: 2/3/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
We spent several hours on Lake Merwin Saturday the 2nd of Feb. We as did many other boaters out on the lake that day had no luck. Between 7 boats only one caught (A) Kokanee. We were using both troll...
By: Trent
Posted: 4/2/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Jerry and I must have stopped at every tackle shop between Olympia and Woodland, but we finally made it to Merwin around noon. We got the Smoker Craft in the water and began our search for Kokes. We d...
By: Bob R
Posted: 4/9/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Merwin to fish with a friend from the kokanee fishing forum. We started about 8a.m. and fished 'tll about 2p.m.We caught 11 kokanee between 3 of us, using sling-blades and hootchies. Rain off ...
By: Old guy Jess
Posted: 4/19/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Many thanks to Kokonuts for his hospitality and willingness to share his knowledge. Prior to yesterday, I had been on Merwin 3 times this year and gotten skunked each time.
After meeting Kokonuts ...
By: Toni
Posted: 4/23/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/22/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Oh what a day! I was planning on fishing American on this day but I got a text from Trent asking if I wanted to go with him and Jerry in Jerry’s boat to Lake Merwin. I have never been to Merwin so I a...
By: wallab44
Posted: 5/21/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Have not fished for a year at Merwin so tried our skill and came away delighted. Started about 3/4 of the way up the Lake towards the Dam and had hits as soon as we were in the water. Moved further ...
By: Maddgrinch
Posted: 5/27/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Good day fsihing. Bigs ran 14" and hefty. Used alot of different colors thru the day but combo pink, white, yellow hooch was the most productive. Most where caught from 25' to 45' deep.
