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06 - Bonneville Dam to The Dalles Dam Fishing Reports
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By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 8/22/2022
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/20/2022
Hot Spots: 0
We started our Fall King Season in the Columbia Gorge this weekend! Fishing was steady and we got our kings! We would like to see a few more fish over the dam to really heat things up, but we can't ...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 8/31/2022
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/27/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Our Columbia Gorge Fall season is off to a great start! We fished this last weekend and limited on kings each day! Fish were great quality and action was non-stop for us. Trolling superbaits and sp...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 9/6/2022
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/3/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Fall King fishing is off to a great starts with limits of bright fish every day! We were able to bait fish and troll this weekend which gave us a good variety of action for our clients. The counts ov...
By: N E 1 FISSION
Posted: 6/15/2013
Species: Shad
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Left Seattle @ 0230, arrived around 0630, crowded by the dam, found a nice spot not far from the portapot. Went with brother and nephew, first time fishing for nephew. (21 yo) Brother got 28 the week ...
By: Westside Angler
Posted: 6/7/2014
Species: Shad
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
1st trip to Bonneville this year - fished from 7am - 2pm down the rocks at the "Combat Zone". No issues with the folks other than some late arrivals trying to pry their way in on some tight spots.
A...
By: DeafHeadFisher85
Posted: 8/21/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/20/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Drano lake to fish for a couple days. The wind kept it interesting so patience was tried often. I had cured up some coonstripe shrimp last year but not much good came out of it so I grabbed a ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/23/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Our first day of fishing at Ed Iman's yearly "Fish Camp", a gathering for guides, outdoor product reps, and writers. Aaron and I fished with Nolan Morgan, an Oregon tournament bass angler. Nolan knows...
By: SilverSlayer
Posted: 5/6/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Drano Lake from the bank on Sunday. Started out plunking in the columbia and hooked a Sturgeon on a roe bag/plunking set up. After a nice fight I C&R'd the little monster. Figured it was tim...
By: SilverSlayer
Posted: 5/16/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/14/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Took a bank fishing trip down to the big C for some Springer action. Went 2 for 2 over two days. The first 9# hen came while plunking at the pine tree hole. Second came at an upper tributary, a 12#...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 9/19/2022
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/17/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Fall King fishing is as good as it gets! This weekend we were egg fishing for big kings in the Columbia Gorge! The troll bite was decent too for guys running super baits and spinners. The Hanford R...
Posted: 7/30/2018
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/30/2018
Hot Spots: 1
With having 2 boats gives us the luxury of fishing multiple fisheries. My other boat fished summer Steelhead out of Drano lake area today and had a ton of success! He reported 18 landed and 3 limits.
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By: Dillpepsi123
Posted: 9/29/2008
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well me and my brother woke up at 4 on Saturday and drove to the Bonneville dam from the Vancouver area. We started out near the fish ladder fishing with sand shrimp on the bottom. Than we moved farth...
By: Westside Angler
Posted: 6/15/2014
Species: Shad
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 6 -10am, approx. 100 yards down from the Dam, the crowd was not too bad - plenty of space to fish, weather was windy at times w/ a little drizzle here & there, ended up catching 20 and cal...
By: Westside Angler
Posted: 6/19/2014
Species: Shad
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/19/2014
Hot Spots: 0
*** SOMEONE LEFT A NICE ROD&REEL SETUP AT PARKING *** (found near empty parking area near Dam with lots of moistures - so must have been from Wednesday/ the day before). If you see this message an...
By: Ganno
Posted: 6/16/2013
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Nice day on the water fishing with a guide that worked hard to put us on fish fished from seven AM to seven Pm At times the action was fast but the keepers were few and far and when the bite slowed do...
By: Ed J
Posted: 1/23/2016
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/20/2016
Hot Spots: 0
It was a good day on the boat, could not have asked for a better day weather wise
also got to pop someones cherry with their first sturgeon but I'm not going to say who's.
The only thing to make th...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/17/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Ed Iman's Fish Camp 2013!
Aaron and I are in Merryhill, WA at the Columbia river for this year's Fish Camp 2013, put on by guide Ed Iman ((503) 658-3753). This is a yearly gathering put on by Ed Im...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/18/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Another fun day on the water! Fishing with guide "Walleye Willie" (http://walleyewillie.com/, 541-993-7335) off the mouth of the Deschuetes River on the Columbia. We used standard hover techniques wit...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/19/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Our last day of Fish Camp and one more shot at Columbia Fall Chinook. Where else but at the mouth of the Deschuetes river. Aaron and I are again fishing with Bruce Warren of Fishing For Fun Guide Serv...
By: Aaron
Posted: 9/20/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I had the pleasure of fishing with some great people at the mouth of the Deschutes on the Columbia River this week. We were targeting the Chinook, and the fishing was on fire!
Bruce Warren of Fishi...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/28/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got to fish for chinook outside the entrance of the White River with Aaron, Ryan, and Steve Leonard of Steve's Guided Adventures. Perfect conditions, a bit of a breeze which settled down in short orde...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/15/2008
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I got to fish with Louis McMinds of EZMarine and angler Tim Garrard on the Columbia river just below the dam. We anchored in 70 feet of water and used fresh salmon belly carcasses as our bait. The bit...
By: magilla060
Posted: 9/21/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
We started out from Drano Lake at approximately 8 a.m.. We left the lake for the Columbia River and the wind was absolutely horrible, as was expected. We anchored just outside the entrance to Drano La...
By: Jacob
Posted: 2/9/2010
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took my little sister and a buddy out with a guide for some sturgeon action. fished from 8 to around 12 in one hole and caught upwards of 70 fish between the three of us, the smallest being about the ...
By: Jacob
Posted: 2/12/2010
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took the bass boat down to the columbia with a couple friends to try out some new stuff we learned from the guide. The weather was horrible, rain and wind that was way higher than what was predicted o...
