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07 - The Dalles to McNary (Celilo/Umatilla) Fishing Reports
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By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 3/20/2020
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/18/2020
Hot Spots: 0
We continued our Spring walleye fishing with a great day and the first sunburn of the season! Fishing was a bit tougher today with a low pressure change and a big water drop, but we managed several g...
By: Gorgecat
Posted: 7/4/2020
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/4/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Got a late morning start out of Umatilla. Tried around the bridge, heavy current, missed a couple bites on Jigs and crawlers and decided to head downstream to moderate water. Good choice as we nette...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 3/13/2021
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/13/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Hey Folks! I am super excited to be back on the water and fishing again, after our awesome Fall and Winter Upland bird season! Starting our guide season off, we focus on Trophy walleye fishing on t...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 5/8/2021
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/8/2021
Hot Spots: 0
We battled the wind Saturday morning, but it paid off. We were able to pile up a bunch of eater walleye by noon for our group. Harnesses in deep water were still the ticket. Seemed like more natura...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 5/15/2021
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/15/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was a little tougher on the Columbia Saturday for walleye. There was a huge high pressure front that moved in the area bringing a rising barometer and high heat for a few days. The walleye d...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 5/22/2021
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/22/2021
Hot Spots: 0
We had some pretty wild Spring weather this weekend making the fishing pretty tough. The fish are there, but 20-30 mph winds make presentation pretty tough. We were able to harness for our fish and ...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 6/6/2021
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/6/2021
Hot Spots: 0
We had a good day on the Columbia yesterday. The wind was a bit much, but we managed and got some nice fish for our efforts. The water was down, and flow up, which indicated to me that we may need t...
By: FJohn
Posted: 6/18/2021
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/18/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Greetings!
First report here on NWFR, I'm a Walleye honk from the Nebraska; I took a position with the DOE in Richland, and I've been trying to learn the water here.
This forum has been VERY hel...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 6/19/2021
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/19/2021
Hot Spots: 0
I will summarize the last few walleye trips we have had on the Columbia! The fishing is lights out! Every 4-5 years, we get a great spawn of fish with great survival rates and good conditions which ...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 6/26/2021
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/26/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Today was our last day chasing walleye for the summer! We are now shifting gears to target summer kings and sockeye for the remainder of the summer/fall. We had great fishing today and was able to g...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 5/28/2022
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/28/2022
Hot Spots: 0
We are right in the middle of our Columbia River Walleye Late Spring fishery. We will fish the Columbia until late June then transition for the rest of the year to Salmon. We start at Wanapum Dam on...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 6/4/2022
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Columbia River eater walleye are in full swing! We had a great day with awesome weather and filled the boat with plenty of walleye for the frying pan! Trolling crawler harnesses was the ticket and f...
By: stewie56
Posted: 6/30/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out htis moring form six to nine in hopes of some dinner for tonight.
I had put rainbow trout as target fish but i was really trying to see if anything would bite.. I never got a nibble but i u...
By: cwbraue
Posted: 10/24/2015
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I went fishing with a coworker today on the Columbia river. He likes fishing here in the spring for Smallmouths but he had never fished here in the fall and I convinced him to go. We went to his fav...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/17/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Jim and I went to the Columbia river below John Day to fish for smallmouth. The water temperature is approaching 60 deg, light wind and sunny. Fished with mainly plugs, chartreuse was the best color, ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/19/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The Jigmeister and I were at Crowe Butte; we started fishing about 10:00 in the morning over near the pump station. Jiggy got a couple of one pounders over the next hour and a half on some jigs that h...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/26/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished with Aaron and Mike Gibney as part of Ed Iman's Fish Camp 2012. We tossed plastics and plugs along shore to some of Mike's prime locations. The fishing was very steady all day. We probably caug...
Posted: 2/28/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/27/2018
Hot Spots: 1
We fished Walleye in the The Dalles dam pool. I rated the day average even though we only got 8 Walleye. The water is still fairly cold 34 degrees and we worked a bit for those fish. Our biggest fish ...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 3/6/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/4/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Sunday, Munden's Rising Son Adventures fished between McNary Dam and John Day Dam on the Columbia River for walleye. The weather was cold and the fish were not too eager to bite, but we ended up find...
Posted: 3/12/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/10/2018
Hot Spots: 1
We fished above The Dalles dam by Biggs junction area on Saturday. It was a decent day of fishing. We landed 7 nice Walleye and had the opportunity at a few others. There were quite a few boats and w...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 9/16/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/10/2018
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for our annual trip to fish the mouth of the Deschutes on the Columbia above The Dalles Dam. My brother in law Dan came along as my wife was ill and unable to join me for this trip. A...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 5/12/2013
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I was able to make good on a promise to Take my good friend Jim Arvidson of Grandview out walleye and smallmouth bass fishing up in the Crow Butte/Alderdale section of the Columbia River this weekend....
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 5/24/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I just had to say that the Smallmouth Bass fishing has been smokin' hot on the Mid Columbia this year with my friends and fishing brothers tearing the Smallies up off of the bank and in the boat from ...
By: tanner214
Posted: 5/9/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
went to rock creek and roosevelt today. the weather was very windy and cold the fishing was pretty slow caught 15-20 smallies on 3 inch gulp minnows and kalins 3 inch grubs in brown and chartruse. i h...
By: tanner214
Posted: 5/20/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hey guys, got to go down to one of my favorite places to fish today with my son. But befor we headed out we made a quick stop by my bro jiggy's house to get some of his homemade jigs. He wanted us to ...
