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By: Palmer
Posted: 5/20/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/19/2007
Hot Spots: 0
This lake is slow this year. We've brought three fish in the boat in 3 trips(2 mac's 5-8#ers) and a koke. I believe it is due to the long cold winter and spring. There aren't many macs stacked up o...
By: Palmer
Posted: 7/4/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/4/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful Day. On the water at 7:30. Saw 5 boats fishing. One boat caught an 8". Fish weren't biting. Full moon and clear skies all night so the fish may have been feeding all night. Off the lak...
By: Hooked Up
Posted: 7/12/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/4/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I got out on the water for the early bite and got nothing. Messed around until the after noon when I went to check out the beach decided to troll pop gear with 2oz weight near the damn. I got my fir...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/2/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/31/2008
Hot Spots: 0
We trolled near the dam targeting Mackinaw. I saw many elevated fish at above 50'. I also saw fish elevated at 100' - 120' in 130' - 160' of water. I hooked up on a 9#er at 145' by trolling about 5...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/15/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/14/2008
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy Keith Garret and I launched out of Wish Poosh around 10 am.Fished the dam end first.Plugs of choice were a U 20 Luminous chartreuse glow in the dark flatfish,and a silver K14 Kwikfish with c...
By: zelnorm
Posted: 8/6/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Cle Elum on 7-28-08 from 5 am to noon with 1.5 oz ZZingers in 90-120 feet and caught 13 lake trout between 8-15 lbs. Big fish around stumps and all fish were within 3 feet of the bottom. Onl...
By: Roaddog
Posted: 8/27/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great time fishing on Lake Cle Elum the past few days. A Bachlor party with friends, beer, and lots of fish being caught. The fish were hitting at all times of the day. We ended up bagging 14 La...
By: buzzbob
Posted: 6/18/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/15/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished several days with lots of fish in 80-100 feet in old river channel drop offs. 34" lake trout coming up with several large fish stacked just below. Water temp 50 F @ 60 feet.
By: buzzbob
Posted: 6/26/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Mac Alley last week and caught several lake trout between 11-14 lbs. Few boats out fishing/ water level still high.
By: buzzbob
Posted: 5/2/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Average Cle Elum lake trout (31"). Fish came from 95' to 82' to take jiggiing spoon.
By: buzzbob
Posted: 7/9/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Lake trout stacked on bottom 95' deep on drop off near old river channel. Caught several fish 8-12 lbs. This 9lb 10oz hit jig @ 80' that was belly to bottom. Thermocline 65'. Best bite 5-8 am.
By: buzzbob
Posted: 11/18/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Late report for Oct. (fixed FF). Lake trout just right of stump/rock on drop off @101', took jig and came up with another laker following. At about 65' unhooked laker bolted to the bottom to join 2...
By: buzzbob
Posted: 9/1/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Thermocliine @ 40'. Kokanee concentrated just below thermocline @ 45' and lake trout on the bottom @ 80' (see pic). Best bite early am before jet skis/boats hit the water/lake devoid of fisherman.
By: buzzbob
Posted: 10/6/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from pontoon off rocky point just east of dam. Lake trout starting to stage for spawn. Most fish were 50-75' deep belly to the bottom. Lake has not turned over yet but lake level has stabili...
By: namaycush
Posted: 8/24/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/9/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing has been good all summer. Fish scattered between 80-120'. Lake level now at 36% of reservoir. 35" lake trout caught at 118'.
By: buzzbob
Posted: 1/24/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Cle Elum for a couple of hours before heading to sports show. Fished by wading out waist deep near rocky drop offs and casting out with 1/2 oz buzz bombs. Foggy and no wind/sun which helped keep...
By: buzzbob
Posted: 2/15/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Took out the pontoon on upper end of lake. Perfectly flat calm morning. Fish were belly to the bottom in 100' and took a lot of coaxing to bite. No other fisherman on the upper end. The dam area h...
By: baiowolph
Posted: 7/6/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We made our way from Antilon to the last lake of our great fishing week - Cle Elum Lake. We were hoping to camp there, but found that Wish-Poosh is closed due to storm damage, leaving only one campgro...
By: cwbraue
Posted: 10/2/2022
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/1/2022
Hot Spots: 0
I have been wanting to fish Cle Elum for years, so I drove out there early yesterday and got on the water about 7. Breeze and waves early then calm and sunny later, but fish weren't biting either way...
By: cwbraue
Posted: 7/30/2023
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/30/2023
Hot Spots: 0
This lake severely needs some stocking. They should put some cutthroat in here, it's perfect habitat for them. Anyways I fished an hour Saturday night in the wind and then 4 hours or so this morning. ...
By: Bodofish
Posted: 8/5/2007
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/4/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water about 10:30. We were going after Mackinaw. Went out to "Mack Alley" and trolled one pass with some BIG plugs. The wind picked up and it got a bit unpleasant so we headed to the othe...
By: Bodofish
Posted: 5/10/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful day on the water. Not much action. I think the water is still a bit cold. 44 in the shallows and 38 in the middle. Caught the one fish all day but we weren't going for the those little ko...
By: Palmer
Posted: 5/18/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My 7 year old son and I fished the south shore near the dam. We caught one near the clearcut at a depth of 150 feet. It was 7 or 8 lbs. He realed for about 5 minutes and handed the rod to me. The f...
By: ecarnes
Posted: 6/1/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/31/2009
Hot Spots: 1
We launced at Wish poosh early, and got fishing early on the West side of the lake across from the launch. We fished for a few hours, trolling back and forth everywhere from 100 - 140 ft deep but no l...
By: Bodofish
Posted: 6/3/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/31/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Great day out on the lake! Beautiful sunshine, minimal wind, good eats, cold beer, just a nice day!
Oh yeah we did catch one fish. It was a ten pound Mac. We talked with two other groups that had c...
