Warm Water Fishery

Alder Lake also has a productive warm water fishery. Largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, black crappie, and yellow perch provide exceptional angling opportunities. To increase habitat structures for these species, Tacoma Power has placed artificial reef structures in the northeastern areas of Alder Lake.  These structures, 300 in all, consist of anchored, upright bundles of hardwood limbs.  Tacoma Power is conducting a five-year study to evaluate the usage of the reefs by the warm water species of the reservoir.