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By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 5/20/2021
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/20/2021
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for the Willamette River near Oregon City (Clackamas County).
Did an afternoon of anchor fishing for shad. Found few fish in the first spots but finally moved into a productive slot...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 10/31/2020
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/29/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Each year as water temps cool on the Willamette River White Sturgeon pile into the Swan Island Basin to tuck out of the current from winter rains and to enjoy the warmer water temps created by the hea...
By: steelheadnman
Posted: 4/9/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/8/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Rivers are completely blown out .
By: Fishing the Odds
Posted: 12/4/2018
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/2/2018
Hot Spots: 0
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Posted: 5/21/2017
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/11/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Dick and I went out to fish some hotspots near downtown Portland. I had never fished in the area before so it was a great experience. Being one of the first days in 2017 that was mild, it seemed as ...
By: tyee4me
Posted: 5/8/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/7/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Started fishing just inside the Willamette River at Frogmore Slough .Trolling at the bottom with cut plug herring. 100 plus boats on the water in our area fished up to Chapman Landing. No fish caught ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/18/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the day fishing with Luke Hatfield, NWFR Moderator on our Facebook Fishing Group. We also had his son Carter along helping to run the boat. Myself, Gringo Pescador, and Robbie were guests on Luk...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 5/11/2015
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Spent a full day in my favorite urban kayak fishery at Swan Island Basin. This locale has built a reputation among local kayak anglers as THE place to easily access and catch dinosaurs (aka White Stur...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 3/9/2014
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
A fellow kayak fisherman and myself fished for white sturgeon on the Willamette River. We launched around 8 AM. Despite marking dense concentrations of sturgeon below us and seeing many roll on the s...
By: kevin14
Posted: 9/29/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We had and fun day catching spring chinook. Caught 6 fish between our three anglers.
By: BARCHASER10
Posted: 5/16/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I live in Seattle, fished the Willamette this week with my buddy who lives in Columbia City, OR. Three of us for three days, Thurs, Fri and Sat. We went 6 for 8 in the harbor below Swan Island. 5 on ...
By: eightballsaul
Posted: 3/30/2010
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Made the trip to the Willamette river to fish for Sturgeon on Friday and Saturday. My lifelong friends John and Phil from Phoenix and Klamath falls met me there and off we went. We launched at the St ...