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Cle Elum Fishing Reports

Cle Elum
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/4/2018
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/30/2018
Hot Spots: 2
I got to go fishing with my son James on our annual overnight trip. Decided to head over to Cle Elum and use some of shad I had caught on the Columbia. Last time I tried this I got a huge laker of aro...
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Cle Elum
By: ydeardorff
Posted: 6/19/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/18/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We drove up to the flooded north end of the lake to see where the fish were. We scanned our way along the eastern side of the lake going north, until we ended up in the shallows up north. On a fluke w...
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Cle Elum
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/31/2017
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/30/2017
Hot Spots: 2
This is a report about the one that got away… My friend Robbie and I got the green light to go do an overnight fishing adventure. I had a plan in place and was (pretty much) ready to execute it. As...
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Cle Elum
By: cptsdauhtr
Posted: 5/8/2017
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/8/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Great day of fishing on Lake Cle Elum. Hooked into a few mackinaw in shallow to medium depth water. Pretty incredible fishing right now.
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Cle Elum
By: track29
Posted: 7/23/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/23/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Hi wind, water down I think 20' from last time here. Whitecaps. Will try again tomorrow. This report primarily to ask group about an info source for future re: water level?
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Cle Elum
By: baiowolph
Posted: 7/6/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We made our way from Antilon to the last lake of our great fishing week - Cle Elum Lake. We were hoping to camp there, but found that Wish-Poosh is closed due to storm damage, leaving only one campgro...
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Cle Elum
By: buzzbob
Posted: 2/15/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Took out the pontoon on upper end of lake. Perfectly flat calm morning. Fish were belly to the bottom in 100' and took a lot of coaxing to bite. No other fisherman on the upper end. The dam area h...
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Cle Elum
By: buzzbob
Posted: 1/24/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Cle Elum for a couple of hours before heading to sports show. Fished by wading out waist deep near rocky drop offs and casting out with 1/2 oz buzz bombs. Foggy and no wind/sun which helped keep...
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Cle Elum
By: buzzbob
Posted: 9/6/2014
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Wanted to take one last quick trip to Cle Elum before the gill netting starts. Fished mack alley 70-120'. Thermocliine @ 50' (temp 49.2 F). Fish ranged 7-14 llbs. on jigs within 10' of bottom. Bit...
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Cle Elum
By: namaycush
Posted: 8/24/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/9/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing has been good all summer. Fish scattered between 80-120'. Lake level now at 36% of reservoir. 35" lake trout caught at 118'.
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Cle Elum
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/2/2014
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/31/2014
Hot Spots: 1
I had a great three day weekend of fishing. Day ½ (LOL) was spent on Cle Elum with Mark, AKA Gringo Pescador. We arrived and had gear running at 6:30am. Our target was macks and kokanee. We knew there...
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Cle Elum
By: buzzbob
Posted: 5/26/2014
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing very slow. Only a few fished graphed. The number of mackinaw seems way down compared to last year. Did manage one average fish in 120' in four days. Surface temp 50 F and 60' 43 F. Few peo...
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Cle Elum
By: namaycush
Posted: 4/12/2014
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 0800-1400. One 32" caught 35' deep suspended over 110' on jig. Graft shows 4 inactive large fish belly to bottom on the edge of a 50' drop. Fish on far left, according to accu-fish, is ...
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Cle Elum
By: buzzbob
Posted: 11/18/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Late report for Oct. (fixed FF). Lake trout just right of stump/rock on drop off @101', took jig and came up with another laker following. At about 65' unhooked laker bolted to the bottom to join 2...
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Cle Elum
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 10/7/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/6/2013
Hot Spots: 1
I had an opportunity to get away for a couple days, so I hooked up with "The Urban Angler" and got him out of the urban sprawl. We launched at Lake Cle Elum on Sunday AM. As badly as I wanted anothe...
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Cle Elum
By: buzzbob
Posted: 10/6/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from pontoon off rocky point just east of dam. Lake trout starting to stage for spawn. Most fish were 50-75' deep belly to the bottom. Lake has not turned over yet but lake level has stabili...
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Cle Elum
By: buzzbob
Posted: 9/1/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Thermocliine @ 40'. Kokanee concentrated just below thermocline @ 45' and lake trout on the bottom @ 80' (see pic). Best bite early am before jet skis/boats hit the water/lake devoid of fisherman.
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Cle Elum
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/13/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/13/2013
Hot Spots: 2
JoAnn and I went on our finally overnight gunk holing adventure of the year to lake Cle Elum. When we arrived, we were shocked at just how low the water had been drawn down. The end of the concrete ra...
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Cle Elum
By: buzzbob
Posted: 7/9/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Lake trout stacked on bottom 95' deep on drop off near old river channel. Caught several fish 8-12 lbs. This 9lb 10oz hit jig @ 80' that was belly to bottom. Thermocline 65'. Best bite 5-8 am.
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Cle Elum
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/2/2013
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/2/2013
Hot Spots: 2
And this report is Part Two of my wife JoAnn and my trip to lake Cle Elum. This report focuses on a under-utilized kokanee fishery on the lake. I’ll start with a couple factoids: Cle Elum has a ...
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Cle Elum
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/2/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/1/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Wow, wow, wow! (and that’s just for part 1 of my two day report) JoAnn and I decided to drive up over to Cle Elum Sunday and moor the boat overnight for a two day fishing adventure. I had a revelat...
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Cle Elum
By: buzzbob
Posted: 6/26/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Mac Alley last week and caught several lake trout between 11-14 lbs. Few boats out fishing/ water level still high.
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Cle Elum
By: buzzbob
Posted: 6/18/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/15/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished several days with lots of fish in 80-100 feet in old river channel drop offs. 34" lake trout coming up with several large fish stacked just below. Water temp 50 F @ 60 feet.
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Cle Elum
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 5/5/2013
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
doing this from dictaphone on a smartphone so not sure how it come out..fished the lake Cle Elum Mackinaw tourney on Saturday. blastoff was 8 o'clock.maybe 40 boats, Im not sure. My buddy and i fish...
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Cle Elum
By: buzzbob
Posted: 5/2/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Average Cle Elum lake trout (31"). Fish came from 95' to 82' to take jiggiing spoon.
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