Lews County

[KurtO]

I'll be heading up there within the next few weeks for work. Any good lakes or ponds that hold fish? Rivers? Won't have much time to fish so I'm hoping for some easy catches.

[kevinb]

Riffe is awesome but unknown where the water level is at.Last I heard it was very low and unable to launch. Theres always Mayfield. I'm forgeting a ton of others.

[Awoods]

IF you gon there after the opener, i highly suggest mineral lake. that is my favorite lake. It holds huge trout! Not quite rufus woods trout, but its not rare to get that 9 pounder.

[gpc]

Yep, if your going after the 26th Lake Mineral is the place you want to fish. Great lake with tons of planters, triploids, brown trout and kicks out is fair share of 10lbers every year. Cheap boat rental, public dock, and resort dock you can fish for about $5.

There is quite a few lakes right on the border of lewis/peirce conties. Alder, kapowsin, clear, ohop, tanawax, and a few others.

Alder is in Lewis county and I am pretty sure its open year round. You need a boat for this lake.

Kapowsin is in Peirce county and is open year round.

Clear I think is in peirce and I am not sure on the season. I only fished the lake 1 time but we killed the kokanee.

Ohop opens on the 26th and has a public dock

Tanawax is supposed to be an awsome trout lake and I am pretty sure it gets triploids but also opens on the 26th.

I really cant tell you a whole lot about all these lakes because everytime I go out there I fish Mineral. The others are good lakes but. But in my opinion Mineral is the best trout lake in Western Washington.

[kevinb]

I've heard Alder is still really low but havn't seen it myself.

[Fish-or-man?]

If you're near the Onalaska area Carlisle Lake, which is actually a 20-acre mill pond, is pretty productive from the opener through June.