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By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/9/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
JoAnn and I got to fish with Lou Smith from the site today. I was pretty pumped up about catching tons of kokanee as I had heard the lake holds a lot of them, although on the smaller size. Figured we ...
By: Lou Smith
Posted: 8/18/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/17/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Alder Lake has had a 10 kokanee limit for years in an attempt to reduce the population and allow the remaining fish to grow larger on the limited plankton available. Today I saw the classic example wh...
By: jimdixon
Posted: 7/28/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/25/2012
Hot Spots: 2
had a day off and woke up late. started fishing around 10am. caught one small kokanee off the boat launch. decided to go to mouth of little nisqually and fished all around the no wake zone to finger l...
By: Slacktime
Posted: 7/6/2012
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Alder with a friend and caught and released 25 or 30 of fingerling perch and 2 smallmouth bass that went about 16" each. I usually don't keep bass but I wanted some fried fish for dinner.
Posted: 6/27/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
rainy day on alder... there was a bass tournament going on. not sure which club or how they did. i was able to get this nice hen, she was still holdin eggs. the spawn must have began and stalled with ...
By: Mikeel1987
Posted: 6/17/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/16/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Camping Trip out at Alder Lake this weekend. Took Father in Law and Grandfather in Law out fishing on my new boat this year for the first time. Went and tried catching some Trout or Kokanee trollin...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/26/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/26/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Went out by dam caught nothing. Tried all different kinds of lours and baits. Caught nothing.
By: Lou Smith
Posted: 10/19/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Alder Park gates opened at 0800. Lake down another three feet, but still a good rock base to launch. Never got out of the area between the two docks! Kokes hit consistantly and boated 10 twelve incher...
By: Lou Smith
Posted: 10/13/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Rocky Point - no water at end of ramp! Launched from Alder Park 0800 and pushed the power button on the Humminbird and nothing happened! Fished from memory - really taking a chance at my age. Water is...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/6/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Saw a break in the rain on the Weather Channel and was at Alder at 0700. Rocky Point gate locked and the ramp didn't look good for launching. Went to main park and on the water 0800. Rain had stopped ...
By: Lou Smith
Posted: 9/7/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Waited until the holiday was over and the lake was practically abandoned. Launched at the Alder ramp 0730 and went after rainbows and got a limit of 10"-11" kokes! Went toward the dam and got an 11". ...
By: arniejl
Posted: 7/30/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The wife and I launched at daylight, well, actually before daylight. Fished pretty hard east of the Alder launch around the south half of the island and then through the bays to the far east. Seen at...
By: gordonbair
Posted: 7/23/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
No crappie today, only one nice cutthroat trout caught by the youngest of the anglers! All and all, a good day of fishing, just wish we had caught more fish.
By: bsaechao22
Posted: 7/17/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Alder around 5ish in the evening, still sunny and hot. Found a nice spot for bass fishing and gave it try. Within a few cast I hooked on, but lost my first fish. I kept working the same area an...
By: Borderline_11
Posted: 7/14/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had another great day on Alder, missed a few good ones but did manage to get this one. 8lb line caught a 4lb largemouth bass. Got to love it.
By: garret
Posted: 7/4/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Alder today from 1pm to about 7pm. I tried fishing for smallmouth with tubes for a while, but no luck. Switched over to a crankbait and started covering some area. Wound up with a couple of dec...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/30/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Caught both these off the jig in the mouth during the rainy Monday morning was fishing for Bass these did just fine, good fight, nice size to em also, should have kept em for the frying pan, next time...
By: arniejl
Posted: 6/26/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Probably a two star day most of the time beings I usually struggle in Alder but today ended in f1sh1nf00l and me hooking and boating 5 fish, of which 2 were LMB and the other 3 were smallies.
Cau...
By: mugzy1990
Posted: 6/24/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I dont know why but it dont have mineral lake on here its pass the bridge in near elbe. It was the end of the day and we had 9 fish on the stringer and we were trolling back to the boat launch AND BA...
By: bassman93
Posted: 6/12/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
hit the lake with a few buddys lookin to drift fish. but not enough wind at the west side of the lake (no wake zone by damn) gave up went to the rocky point area and knocked 11 kokes and 2 rainbows de...
By: TrollNFisher
Posted: 3/20/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
20 Mar 2011 started 0950, trolled next to the dam and northwest started out trolling free lining out the back trolled florescent green wedding band behind a 6 inch dodger tipped with pink Berkley’s ma...
By: arniejl
Posted: 3/19/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well, it was time to get my little 12 footer going. Got my motor out of storage and changed the gear oil, loaded up and headed to Alder, mainly just to get out, but I fished while I was there.
Pitc...
By: kevinb
Posted: 2/20/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Started the day at Kapowsin but noticed a small amount of water in the boat and started resealing. Still wanting to get some time in the water,decided to try Alder,I was out here yesterday with the fa...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/28/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Alder at 8:30 with a couple buddies. Neither of us had fished this lake before so we didn't know what to expect. So we threw on some flashers. Were marking fish around 40'when we got there . D...
By: bodyfisher
Posted: 11/12/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Alder twice this week to fish for spawning kokanee. My personal opinion is that it is the most stupidly easy fishing in the world. Any spoon or spinner with lots of color and flash will get th...