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Riffe Lake Report
Lewis County, WA

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06/06/2016
Trolling
Salmon
Other
Hook & Bait
All Day
66° - 70°
06/10/2016
1
1970

My college buddies and I fished mon tues wed Thursday.
No fish. I got lots of good info from fellow waLakers jaydog and salmonkiller indicating low water levels and no fish.. My report is to confirm and provide additional info.

At Taidnapam you can only use the north launch. They have installed a log boom that keeps the launch mostly clear. We saw no fish until we were a mile down lake and none of them would bite. I prepared a wide variety of lures and we used them all including worms power bait, and shrimp of two different flavors. Nothing worked. The only thing we didn't do was head out at day break.

In retrospect we should have gone down to the launch at the dam (Mossyrock) and tried there. My theory is that when Tacoma power drew down the lake to produce some power all or most of the silvers were drawn down lake. I don't know how far but it seems that it would make the most sense to start at the dam and work up lake.

I hope the lake gets up to full pool which is apparently necessary to get the silvers back up to the Taidnapam area.


Comments

Hunter757
6/11/2016 6:47:00 AM
thanks for the report and conformation on what others are seeing. Let's hope the lake comes back up some with this rain. The silvers in that lake like to run around a lot, if memory serves me right it was about an hour at the dam the bite would turn on. But the bite did not last all year long it was only for a few months and I think it might be a bit early yet.
Bay wolf
6/11/2016 9:20:00 AM
The dam is as dismal as the other end of the lake. Taidnapam bridge should be going lights out by now, so as far as being a little early, that's wishful thinking. SOMETHING is off. Not sure what. Maybe a combination of things, but the silver fishing looks to be a bust this year. I find it interesting that Kokonee fishing is also a bit strange this year...correlation?
Thor
6/11/2016 9:15:00 PM
We were surprised that the lake was so low..I talked with one of the workers who said he thought the huge draw down was to create a bunch of power that was sold. I believe the silvers should still be in the lake but finding them would be quite a task.
mike_hanshaw
6/23/2016 9:42:00 PM
My brother caught a pretty big one from his kayak today close to the Kosmos launch. He was trolling some kind of mepps spinner, not sure what color. Hope this helps.
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