Fishing Mayfield Lake?

[Houndhunter]

i fished a few times from a boat, i trolled plain old worms and sometimes i'd through a weding ring or corkie on it .also id troll a wolly bugger, havnt found the killer pattern they liked, they liked diff ones each trip . but we kept it pretty simple and caught some nice trout

[BLKBEARKLR]

Dman, I hear you on the 15000 casts. I have spent plenty of time when I was growing up in New York fishing for the big guys, nothing would piss you off more seeing a 40+ incher sunning itself, would cast and cast to it and all it would do is watch the bait go on bye.

I have fished Mayfield quite a bit and have had real good success out there, I get quite a few follow ups and usually hook into a couple while out there. The one that that I have in the picture was a 44 incher. I got it to mount in school. As I was coming up to the dock this lady was down there with her 1yr old and sprayed a whole bunch of sunscreen on the lil guy and it had silver flakes in it. I then see her walking down to the lake like they were going to go swimming. I went and introduced myself to her and then introduced the tiger to her and told her it was probably not a good idea to have a lil silver shiny dude swimming in the water.

[Dmanmastertracker]

 Do you catch many of the pikeminnows in there any more? That was the primary reason they started stocking Mayfield with Tiger's, we used to catch piker's in there to over 5lbs, some nice trout and bass too. Cutt's over 20" and smallmouth over 3lbs. I tend to fish Riffe more these days.

[BLKBEARKLR]

Nope have not caught any pikeminnows in there I have only caught one bass in that lake so far and I have no idea what the heck he was even thinking that day it was about a 2 pound smallie that ate a 5 oz rattle trap.

I used to fish Riffe a lot for smallies, there are some nice fish in Riffe

[Dmanmastertracker]

 Sure is. Nice cutties in there too, we had what was to this day, the biggest cutt I've seen follow a spinnerbait to the boat there, had to be near 2' long. Also caught more silvers than I can count to 20", good eating, feeding on that freshwater shrimp.

[BLKBEARKLR]

I did not throw a lot of spinners there, I used mostly plastics, and rattle traps. All one color

[Alchase]

Do you catch many of the pikeminnows in there any more?

Last year we caught quite a few pikeminnows. At the point by the boat launch it gets real deep. The pikeminnows school up there. They seem to be very territorial in Mayfield. I have never noticed that at other lakes.

[Dmanmastertracker]

 That's where we used to catch them a lot as well.

[wapiti hunter2]

Going on Friday.

Any reports or tips? Targeting Tigers and trout. We'll fish from about 3 till dark.

[PolarBear]

Wow! This is an old thread.    I wound up finding muskies all over by the swimming area by Ike Kinswa, the mouth of the Cowlitz arm and the big weed bed across from Ike Kinswa. Better bring your patience hat because if you are lucky you might get a couple of strikes or followers all day. I caught them on big bucktails and hard swimbaits.

[wapiti hunter2]

Wow! This is an old thread.    I wound up finding muskies all over by the swimming area by Ike Kinswa, the mouth of the Cowlitz arm and the big weed bed across from Ike Kinswa. Better bring your patience hat because if you are lucky you might get a couple of strikes or followers all day. I caught them on big bucktails and hard swimbaits.

To tell the truth, I would be happy just seeing a few of the tigers. I've heard that they are amazing. Catching is always a bonus. We have the gear but this is more of a scouting/get our feet wet in Mayfield sort of trip.

[PolarBear]

If you have a kayak or such, the swimming cove is loaded with them and they love to sun themselves.  It's pretty cool to see those big ol gators hanging out just under the surface.

[Alchase]

If you can make it to Curlew, it is full of Tigers cruising the shallows. We use to watch them stalk the bass.