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By: 4n6fisher
Posted: 6/6/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Me and two friends hit the lake about 5:30 and began trolling with herring, brads cut plug, hootchies, eggs, dick nites, and even wedding rings (hoping for a trout if nothing else). Not one bite all ...
By: laketroll
Posted: 5/5/2016
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
hit scanewa at daylight and trolled cut-plug herring....fished bouncing on the bottom between 15 and 25 feet....nice bright springers were hitting all day
By: headhunter2
Posted: 6/10/2015
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Packed up from camping at riffe for the weekend and launched at scanewa at around 10. Lots of filleted Kings at the ramp. Headed to the dam, couple of boats there, one had just limited on sand shrimp...
By: 4n6fisher
Posted: 6/1/2015
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Headed up to Lake Scanewa to chase a springer or two. Went up Saturday afternoon with the wind blowing pretty good, so I did not get the pontoon out, but did talk to a guide that had caught 5 the day...
By: laketroll
Posted: 5/29/2015
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Started fishing at daylight....trolled cut plug herring that were brined and we caught 2 nice springers in the 6 to 10 lb range....nice weather except wind picked up at noon....watched 3 loads of fish...
By: salmonbarry
Posted: 10/19/2013
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Was torn on where to fish today but got a call from my buddy in Longview who wanted to do our annual trip to Lake Scanewa to chase some of the coho's they have been dumping in there. It is one of the...
By: clamdigger
Posted: 6/23/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
A great day of fishing! Lots of sun and lots of fish. Caught and released quite a few and went home with a limit each. As you can see, my favorite fishing partner once again caught the biggest one!...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/24/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/21/2012
Hot Spots: 3
3 Days of fishing with my old friend Joe was great. Thursday we got to his property in Randle about noon, unloaded & headed to Scanewa. Fished behind small island on the Cispus arm. We C&R fish all af...
By: leahcim_dahc
Posted: 10/18/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Scanewa around 0630. Water was clear with visibility to about 4 feet in the shallow areas...the deeper sections where the Cowlitz feeds into and runs through was cloudy. water temperature was 4...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/3/2007
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/15/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Took 3 other people out on the boat and had the best day ever, we caught and released 126 trout in one day. How awsome is that.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/26/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/11/2006
Hot Spots: 0
It was silty from glacial run off, yet fishable. We trolled upriver for quite a while. On a bend in the river we trolled in circles. On the second pass a bright Springer nailed my Gold spinner with ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/20/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/10/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Great fishing near the mossyrock dam, the landlocked coho averaged 16 in. Be sure to thread a worm on your line if you are planning to use shrimp. Fish at about 3.5 feet.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/14/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/11/2006
Hot Spots: 0
First time out on this lake. My dad and I trooled up the Cowlitz, and saw two slamon jump. One was clear out of the water. Caught a 15lb springer on the third bend or so. Gold spoon with red beads....
By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/12/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 12/12/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Took the day off in pursuit of any late silvers that might be left. Started at 7:00 on the Cispus side just to see if there was any trout. The amount of squawfish (sorry, NORTHERN PIKEMINNOW) was horr...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/21/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 11/20/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful day and there were definitely coho to be had...
Arrived at about noon and there were about 2 dozen rigs in the
lot. Sunny and warm. Beautiful weather.
One of the nice things about f...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/24/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/24/2003
Hot Spots: 0
My brothers and I got a late start and didn't arrive at the lake until nearly noon. I had left Milton at 7am and towed the boat to their camp site at the upper end of Riffe Lake. After a good breakfas...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/7/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 12/7/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Well this is my fourth week in a row fishing this lake. We have caught salmon there every time we have gone. We picked up three this weekend. The first was a little to dark to keep but put a good figh...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/7/2001
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Rating: 2
Fished: 7/7/2001
Hot Spots: 0
We got to the lake at about 6:30am and had one fish by 7:00am. Nothing after that. The day was clear and would later get pretty warm. I think the fish are feeding at night. There were about 10 boa...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/23/2001
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/23/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Dad and I trolled for two limits of rainbow. Good, fat fish. None smaller than 12 inches and the biggest, as measured by the Fish & Game guy at the launch, was 15.5 inches. It took just under four ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/25/2001
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Rating: 5
Fished: 2/25/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Dropped are boat at about 8AM. Trolled for a couple hour without a
bite. so we decided to do a little bit of bottom fishing, we
pulled up a few little bows. after lunch it got fun, put on a couple
...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/24/2001
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Rating: 3
Fished: 2/24/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Today, I was out fished by my husband & skunked!! Yes, it finally happened. That's ok, I can't beat him all the time LOL.
He caught a 22"er but I caught NADA!! We took pictures & then released it....
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/10/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 2/10/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Report:: 15 lb salmon caught!
I'm pretty sure this is the lake we fished on Saturday, at least that was the name my uncle gave me though the directions in the overview don't sound too familiar. I...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/3/1999
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Rating: 2
Fished: 9/3/1999
Hot Spots: 0
Got my canoe on Scanewa about 3PM. Surface temp in the "Cowlitz" portion of lake was pretty consistent at about 57F. Once you got into the "Cispus flow" portion of the lake temps dropped to about 53...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/1/1999
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Rating: 1
Fished: 6/1/1999
Hot Spots: 0
For an opening day not so good.Water was a chilly 50 deg with no more than 12 in. visibility. High water and very muddy. Don't know what the snow melt is going to do here.Better luck next time.
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/9/1996
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Rating: 1
Fished: 8/9/1996
Hot Spots: 0
Attempted fishing this morning but the water was very murky with lots of debris floating on the surface. Quit after 45 minutes. Lots of steelhead smolts jumping on the surface, reminded me of a rearin...