riffe lake fishing??

[duckman nale]

i am going camping down at riffe  lake and what is the fishing like for landlocked silvers i went down a couple weeks ago and got nothing and i wondered if the fishing has gotten better

[doyourtime89]

I haven't been down there yet this year.  But from a couple guys I know been do the dam a couple times and it sounds like its hit or miss.  I would like to get down there sometime soon and wack some of those silvers again.  Good luck!!

[lewy]

bump- any recent action?

[pianoman9701]

Go down to the south end and hit Swafford for largemouth.

[Alchase]

bump- any recent action?

I was there on Sunday, copied from "206 thread..."

My son and I headed down to Riffe on Saturday. Pulled in to get gas at the 76 station just outside of Eatonville, and as I went to pull out, we hear a bang, thump, thump, thump, coming from the drivers side front. I get out and look under the truck, my front drive shaft is just hanging there! I call the wife to come get us and the boat and AAA to get my truck and tow it to South Hill Pep boys. $686.00 later I find out a $2.00 clip broke, the drive shaft come loose and slammed into my drivers side shock denting the crap out of it. 

Sunday we head down to Riffe, this time with no mishaps, LOL.
The lake was up to normal levels, and only a few boaters on the water. We were trolling a flasher followed by a hootchie and a night crawler teaser. Five minutes from the dock heading towards the dam, my son hits a 20 1/2" coho. I am hooking a few shakers until about an hour later I hook up a 23" coho! 
My son got one more 18 1/2" coho and I caught a 18" rainbow for a total of 4 good sized keepers.

We get back to the dock about 3:00, and hear about a lady fishing from the rocks on the east side service road, who hooked up a 18 lb chinook! 

I have been hearing for years there were chinook in Riffe, but I had never seen one caught.

FYI, the people who work the Mossy Rock Park, need to teach the state parks how to run things. The park was perfectly clean, the bathrooms, the fish cleaning stations, and the facilities were in great condition. And the only charge $5.00 to get in. 

We only saw about twenty boats the whole time we were there, for a free fishing weekend, with no crowds, made for a great day on the water.

[johng]

I was there last Saturday with my buddy Charlie and we did alright.  We fished the bank right by the dam and did best with a worm and/or cocktail shrimp under a slip bobber.  We each got 2 nice sized silvers.... super yummy too.

Not a lot of fish were being caught but it was steady throughout the day.  We were down there for probably a good 7 hours to get our fish.  Beautiful spot of the state and very nice people!

Good luck,
jg

[Old Man Yager]

Me and the boy were there for a couple hours a week ago, fished off the bridge by the campground. It was slow that day, we got a few Kokanee, wish I had a boat.....

[xd2005]

A buddy told me they are running pretty big by the fishing bridge....whatever that means lol

[BobW]

Not Kokanee. If Riffe they are land locked silvers. Kokes are land locked Sockeye. But glad you had fun

[Alchase]

Not Kokanee. If Riffe they are land locked silvers. Kokes are land locked Sockeye. But glad you had fun

 

There are also a few chinook in there

I was pleasantly suprised at the size of the coho we caught 
We still saw a ton of 6 - 10 inchers jumping.