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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: cwbraue
Posted: 5/29/2023
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2023
Hot Spots: 0
I have been trying to catch of fish out of this lake for a while. Last year I found a few rainbows but couldn't get them to bite. Today I finally landed a fish there and it was a hog. Right at 7:20 I ...
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: BennyLeeBratrud
Posted: 7/3/2021
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/3/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Fished majority on the south end both on the east and west side of the lake. All the way up just past the wish poosh boat launch. We fished back to back days 5 am - 9:30 and marked fish few but nothin...
By: Kayakjeff
Posted: 5/12/2020
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/12/2020
Hot Spots: 1
Fished Lake CLE ELUM around 6:30 am. I was the only one on the as far as I could tell. Water Conditions were perfect for me as I fish from a kayak. I headed out in front of the dam about a half mile ...
By: rmrauscher
Posted: 7/19/2019
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/17/2019
Hot Spots: 2
Second trip to Lake Cle Elum this year on Weds. Conditions were tough to say the least. Storm front blowing in, strong wind, rain, choppy water and barometer dropping like a rock. Got hit with some bo...
By: MoonValley
Posted: 7/12/2019
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/12/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Took another shot at Mackinaw in Cle Elum Lake today. After the last trip, I replaced the wire on my downriggers with longer rolls of the new 200# braid and added larger downrigger balls. BIG mistak...
By: MoonValley
Posted: 6/29/2019
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/29/2019
Hot Spots: 1
I hit Cle Elum today to try my hand at Mackinaw for the first time in 38 years... I didn't anticipate much success since I'm completely new to that fishery.
The day started beautifully. Very lig...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/17/2019
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/16/2019
Hot Spots: 1
Cle Elum has my attention as a close, “go-to” destination for a shot at big lakers. I’ve caught some nice fish out of this lake and wanted to share my experiences with a couple NWFR members. So Sunday...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/4/2018
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/30/2018
Hot Spots: 2
I got to go fishing with my son James on our annual overnight trip. Decided to head over to Cle Elum and use some of shad I had caught on the Columbia. Last time I tried this I got a huge laker of aro...
By: ydeardorff
Posted: 6/19/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/18/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We drove up to the flooded north end of the lake to see where the fish were. We scanned our way along the eastern side of the lake going north, until we ended up in the shallows up north. On a fluke w...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/31/2017
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/30/2017
Hot Spots: 2
This is a report about the one that got away…
My friend Robbie and I got the green light to go do an overnight fishing adventure. I had a plan in place and was (pretty much) ready to execute it. As...
By: cptsdauhtr
Posted: 5/8/2017
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/8/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Great day of fishing on Lake Cle Elum. Hooked into a few mackinaw in shallow to medium depth water. Pretty incredible fishing right now.
By: track29
Posted: 7/23/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/23/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Hi wind, water down I think 20' from last time here. Whitecaps. Will try again tomorrow. This report primarily to ask group about an info source for future re: water level?
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: 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: 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: 9/6/2014
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Wanted to take one last quick trip to Cle Elum before the gill netting starts. Fished mack alley 70-120'. Thermocliine @ 50' (temp 49.2 F). Fish ranged 7-14 llbs. on jigs within 10' of bottom. Bit...
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: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/2/2014
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/31/2014
Hot Spots: 1
I had a great three day weekend of fishing. Day ½ (LOL) was spent on Cle Elum with Mark, AKA Gringo Pescador. We arrived and had gear running at 6:30am. Our target was macks and kokanee. We knew there...
By: buzzbob
Posted: 5/26/2014
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing very slow. Only a few fished graphed. The number of mackinaw seems way down compared to last year. Did manage one average fish in 120' in four days. Surface temp 50 F and 60' 43 F. Few peo...
By: namaycush
Posted: 4/12/2014
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 0800-1400. One 32" caught 35' deep suspended over 110' on jig. Graft shows 4 inactive large fish belly to bottom on the edge of a 50' drop. Fish on far left, according to accu-fish, is ...
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: The Quadfather
Posted: 10/7/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/6/2013
Hot Spots: 1
I had an opportunity to get away for a couple days, so I hooked up with "The Urban Angler" and got him out of the urban sprawl.
We launched at Lake Cle Elum on Sunday AM. As badly as I wanted anothe...
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...