Riffe Lake

[Goshawk]

Talked to a tacoma water guy today on a job. Said Riffe is permanently lowered due to the Oroville dam break in California. And if someone says it can happen, or it does happen somewhere else, they have to take action everywhere. He said some dams monitor flood zones, some dams monitor power and some such as Riffe, monitor both. Dams that are designed for both are a battle because the flood monitoring side wants the water level low and the power side wants it high. His opinion was that over time, some planning and funding will come up to update what is needed and bring it back to what it was. I thought his point of view was rather interesting.

Sorry for an old thread, but just in case there are folks here who are not up to speed on Riffe Lake, I wanted to get out real information.
So, regarding a "tacoma water guy" He lied, you misunderstood him.  It's all about new USGS Seismic numbers that suggest a possible failure on the Mossyrock Dam Spillgates should there be a major event with movement in the East / West direction.  It's a long shot anything like that will happen, but until such time the USGS issues new guidelines, the draw down will continue.  The new seismic numbers are overdue by more than a year so far.  Nothing like the slow motion of the US Government when decisions need to be made.

[TeacherMan]

I know this is a really old thread but I drove past the it today, stopped at the dam and there were a TON (hundreds) of fish you could see swimming back and forth in the crazy clear water. Several really good sized.

[MADMAX]

It’s a cool lake always wanted to fish it

[HntnFsh]

Fishing has been good!

[metlhead]

Yep. Big fish are below the 12-15" fish

[TeacherMan]

Saw couple guys using slip bobbers/worms trying for them and they could care less.  I was thinking a small cripple herring to get a little deeper or a Vibrax. Otherwise maybe some pautzke eggs on a slip bobbers.

[Mtnwalker]

Are the coho still loaded with worms? I haven't fished it in 10 years but last time was insane, big bloated bellies with worms pouring out their gill plates and mouths. I'd like to take the kids over one of these days but that was enough to turn me off for a while 

[metlhead]

I didn't see any