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07 - The Dalles to McNary (Celilo/Umatilla) Fishing Reports
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By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 6/19/2009
Species: Shad
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well Shad fans...Those hard figthing silver fish are definately here! Headed down to John Day and picked up a one day Oregon license for 12 bucks and gave Shad fishing a shot. They were hitting all m...
By: THester
Posted: 3/12/2011
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Rough morning trying to target some keepers. Herring, Squid, Roll Mop, No luck No boats on the water either so they must know something I dont.
By: scuby
Posted: 9/9/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
First trip of the year and first TOAD within 10-15 mins of being on the water.... Good morning bite and it seemed that everything just died off around 1030 ish. Its going to be crazy with boats here i...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/19/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I returned late last night from Ed Iman’s Fish Camp 2014, our annual event of guides, outdoor product reps, and media-type people (that would be me, LOL). As always, Ed and Pam Iman put on a great ev...
By: REELTIMEGS
Posted: 4/15/2016
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/15/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished below John Day Dam for Sturgeon water was high wind was horrific but we landed 6 fish 5 undersized and one oversized. Wind is supposed to lay down tomorrow and we are going to fish half day S...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 1/8/2018
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/6/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Hey Guys and Gals! 2018 is starting with a bang! Our first trip of the year was for keeper sized sturgeon in the Columbia River! I was able to fish a great group of clients on Saturday the 6th of Ja...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 1/16/2018
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/13/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Well with the warmer weather and less flow in the Columbia this winter versus last, we are having some awesome sturgeon days! I was able to get into a great pod of fish on Saturday and we landed abou...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 1/22/2018
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/20/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Keeper sturgeon season on the middle stretches of the Columbia is wrapping up! This year, mainly because of a milder winter, the bite has been decent since the season opened on January 1st. The Dall...
By: Goldrigger1
Posted: 10/11/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/8/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Thought I'd let people know about walleye fishing on Lake Celilo this fall. First I read Ed Iman on the shad run and how it affects the walleye. Ed says he won't fish for walleye during August and Se...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 2/6/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Winter pre-spawn walleye fishing is going strong in Eastern Washington! We fished the John Day Pool on Saturday and got into lots of 18-20 inch eater sized walleyes, as well as a few bigger 4 lb fish....
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 2/23/2017
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I got the rare opportunity to be part of a group of anglers in pursuit of keeper sturgeon with guide Jacob Murden of Rising Son Guide Service. I say rare because there is only one area on the Columbia...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 3/13/2017
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/11/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Northwest Fishing Reports and I chased keeper sturgeon again on the Columbia in the John day pool. With the low quota of only 105 fish for sport anglers, we are forced to fish for keepers even when ...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 3/23/2017
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/20/2017
Hot Spots: 0
The keeper sturgeon season in the John Day Pool remains open. The quota of 105 fish is getting close to being reached. Regardless of the unfavorable river conditions, if you want a keeper sturgeon t...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 3/30/2017
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Keeper sturgeon retention in the John Day Pool closed to retention March 30th. Despite tough river conditions and a low quota, we were able to catch several keepers and many more over/under fish! It...
By: rippinlips22
Posted: 7/7/2009
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Below John Day Dam again for sturgeon for a few hours on the 4th. Hooked 5 and landed 3 in 2-3 hours. Great day, no wind and good friends. Biggest was 8'7" and had one break our 12/0 Big River ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/9/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Put in at Umatilla @8am trolled down stream on Wa. side with bottom walkers and nightcrawlers to the end of the island, nada, picked up and ran to Irrigon, fished outside edge of bar picked up one 16"...
Posted: 5/17/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out for a couple hours on Saturday, launched at davenport and went down towards china bend. The water level is really low, caught hung up and lost a prop in the Hcraft. Myself, my girlfriend’s ...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 6/10/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I recently met Dave, a caretaker at Crow's Butte State park down on the Mid Columbia and he was all abuzz about recent catches of big Walleye near the Park. Of course after hearing that I was ready an...
By: rippinlips22
Posted: 6/17/2009
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished below John Day Dam for shad and sturgeon and was able to have the best day oversized sturgeon fishing trip I have had yet. There was no shortage of bait to be caught either, which is always nic...
By: tanner214
Posted: 5/20/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hey guys, just got back from crow butte. Had a pretty good trip, just a little early for the walleye to be on the bite but we did manage to get 4 pretty nice walleye an a few nice perch for the frying...
By: SsendaM
Posted: 2/12/2012
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The fishing was tough on Lake Umatilla over the weekend. The weather and getting a fishing buddy his first Sturgeon made it well worth the effort. We fished Sat-Sun with only 2 bites and one fish to...
By: raptorschild
Posted: 6/7/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for Walleye at Patterson and got blanked. DIdnt see any other boats catch any either, save 1 shaker.
So we switched to smallmouth fishing current seams in the main river and hammered small...
By: rwraces
Posted: 6/12/2013
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My wife and I hit the water around 6:30 am around Irrigon area. Anchored up not too far from a friend that was already anchored. He and his buddy caught several oversize and one keeper. We fished a...
By: bbrebozo
Posted: 7/23/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Great day on the Columbia. We managed to release 62 Smallmouth ranging from 1/2 pound to 2 1/2 pounds. We lost 15 or more besides on jumps. Lipless crankbaits were the ticket in Blue/silver.We fished ...
By: Roguebear
Posted: 2/23/2013
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
After three weeks of waiting for new transducers and respooling down riggers. I finally made it out to the water. Morning started out great no wind, river was like glass great way to get back out on t...
