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Yale Fishing Reports

Yale
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/28/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/26/2018
Hot Spots: 1
Due to work schedules JoAnn and I were unable to make our long anticipated trip to Conconully (major bummer…) so instead we headed down I-5 and hit Yale and Merwin. We hit the road at 3:30am and m...
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Yale
By: chiwawadan
Posted: 5/22/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/19/2018
Hot Spots: 0
If you're going up the Lewis to the Reservoirs - skip Merwin. Second time spending the better part of a day with NO bites... maybe they're down on the west end of the lake, but they're NOWHERE near Sp...
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Yale
By: hitman2
Posted: 4/23/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/22/2018
Hot Spots: 0
fished all day not even a take down
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Yale
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/5/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/3/2017
Hot Spots: 1
I had the privilege of fishing the 2017 Yale Kokanee event “The Fallen Outdoors” with my friend Robbie (first mate) and three vets, Chris, Jason, and Misty. For those of you not familiar with this awe...
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Yale
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/30/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/27/2016
Hot Spots: 0
It was a rainy and cool Sunday but I had two die hard anglers with me to share the marginal weather. Randy (rseas) and Robbie joined me for a day of fishing for kokanee on Yale. We arrived around 1...
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Yale
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/22/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/21/2016
Hot Spots: 3
What a wonderful day of fishing on Yale Reservoir! JoAnn, the dogs, and I set off mid-day Saturday D/T the high heat conditions, knowing we would arrive late in the day. We figured things would hav...
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Yale
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/18/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
After struggling with the wind and poor fishing on Merwin, we decided to check out Yale Reservoir. Yale has huge numbers of kokanee, albeit smaller than Merwin. Last year I noted the fish had gotten i...
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Yale
By: Travis Baley
Posted: 9/29/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished out of Yale park. Bite was great as the kokanee were very aggressive. Unfortunately I had issues with my kicker motor and had to run with just my electric trolling motor. I had to stay fairly c...
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Yale
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/10/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/10/2015
Hot Spots: 1
The last time JoAnn and I fished Yale was three years ago, and we didn’t fish it very long as the fish were running 8-9 inches in size. Lot’s of fish, no size. Because Merwin was fishing tough for us...
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Yale
By: Travis Baley
Posted: 5/10/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Didn't get on the lake fishing until after 12. Trolled around a lot of the lake but the best bite was trolling parallel to shore on the far side across from Yale Park. Started with dodgers or sling bl...
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Yale
By: Travis Baley
Posted: 2/25/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/19/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Trolled a fender setup with a pink UV wiggle hoochie tipped with corn. Fish were shallow. I had two on the boat in the first 45 minutes, then I went two hours before I hooked another. Lost a couple mo...
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Yale
By: rickrws
Posted: 8/12/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got there real early and the fish where going crazy. I gat there at 7 am and limited out by 11am. Real overcast day the fish never stopped biting.
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Yale
By: rickrws
Posted: 8/6/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/6/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Fished half the day. Wedding rings and corn. Caught one 10 incher and lost 2 at the boat. also caught a couple of small rainbows. I was fishing 45 to 60 feet deep with a rigger. The water was warm ...
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Yale
By: Travis Baley
Posted: 6/5/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/2/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Fished right out in front of Yale Park. I trolled a little toward Swift with not much luck and little toward Merwin with a little better bite, but really the best fishing was right in front of the boa...
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Yale
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/17/2012
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/8/2012
Hot Spots: 1
My wife and I fished Yale in the afternoon after limiting at Merwin. Ran down to the dam face and immediate started catching small 6-8" fish at varying depths. Tried bigger gear and faster trolling sp...
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Yale
By: wallab44
Posted: 6/24/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/22/2011
Hot Spots: 3
Went to Merwin first and got skunked ! After 2 hours came here and had a fish in 5 minutes . Had 8 fish in 2 hours here but it got so rolly that it was not fun. Did 39-40 pulls with 2 oz of weight and...
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Yale
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/10/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/10/2011
Hot Spots: 3
Took my wife to Merwin and then came here for the other 11. Had a great time and non-stop action till we got down by the east end. We must have had 40 hits that stripped the corn off. The shoepeg corn...
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Yale
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/8/2011
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/8/2011
Hot Spots: 1
Fished for 3 hours .Couldn't keep thje fish off ! Tho they are not as big as Merwin they put up a great fight. Had non-stop action . Weather was overcast and misty but wonderful for fishing.
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Yale
By: wallab44
Posted: 6/5/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
tried to get there early but sun already was on the water. Managed only to get 3 kokes, about 5 takedowns, 2 keychain trout. BTW, my wife is the one who got em all. She was using a mini ford fender (a...
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Yale
By: wallab44
Posted: 5/30/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Wasn't gonna go fishing because of the weather and went at last minute. Put up full bimini top and fished for about 4 hours. Got 9 kokes and 1 rainbow. All about 11 inches. Water got real smooth in ea...
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Yale
By: wallab44
Posted: 5/16/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/16/2010
Hot Spots: 3
started fishing about 9 or 10 trying to figure out fishfinder (new) and setup poles (for my wife and I ). Horrible time to get going !!!!! Started up by houses and crossed over lake trolling half n...
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Yale
By: idawashfish
Posted: 7/13/2009
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Yale on Saturday. This was my first time fishing this lake. Started fishing after noon for a couple hours and landed 4 kokanee between 12" and 14". They were beautiful. Had several more on ...
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Yale
By: Fred Hanks
Posted: 5/9/2009
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
What a nice day! Had a lot of bite's. Hard to hook up. Most fish were small, Most were running around 8'' that were keepers and would stay on the hook. Most showed up on the screen at 40 ft. , Water ...
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Yale
By: kingdavid1010
Posted: 5/22/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/18/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Used 20 and 30 ft Jet divers to get down but the majority were deeper than I could reach (100 feet on fish finder). We caught fish though near the cone and south of the cone trolling toward the bank. ...
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Yale
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/12/2006
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/11/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Went Kokanne fishing and caught 30 in 8 hrs of fishing it was a bit slow for the first few hours. But we found them and did OK!! Dave
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