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11 - Vernita Bridge to Priest Rapids Dam Fishing Reports
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By: fishinChristian
Posted: 2/9/2011
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Water clear and into the brush, quite high. Using the twin pontoon with twin MinnKota electrics (well, 55 and 46 lb thrusts), my fearless dogs and I struggled against the current (fearless or bored, ...
By: panfisher
Posted: 11/9/2012
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went with "Gordy" for some Whitefish fishing on the Columbia 8am-12:30pm. These fish were nice and fat from feasting on the salmon eggs. And the trick that caught them for us was Gordy's salmon egg fl...
By: tluedeke
Posted: 11/17/2012
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
What an amazing waste of a morning. Went up to the bars down below Vernita. Quite a few fisherman, probably 25. Used pink and red egg patterns, tipped with those fake maggots baits, on a leader ~15...
By: tluedeke
Posted: 11/22/2012
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Utterly lost and confused. Always viewed meself as a decent analytical fisherman, but this is by *far* the hardest fishing I've ever done.
OK. Went out for the second time, based upon a marginal r...
By: Lipriper
Posted: 1/16/2015
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Foggy and icy but got in the water about 0730 fished until 1430. Three of us caught over 30 peamouths, great for smoking and canning. This is a great place to teach a kid how to drift fishing. Whitefi...
By: GordyC
Posted: 11/21/2015
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/20/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Three of use went after whitefish in my friends boat today. We all had a good time, weather was prefect. Jim had the hot pole today. Every time I looked around he had a fish on. We brought back 41. ...
By: Asianju
Posted: 12/15/2015
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/13/2015
Hot Spots: 0
A friend of mine and I decided to target some whitefish at vernita. First time targeting these fish so researched from past posts about what gear to use. We chose egg fly patterns tipped with fake sof...
By: Lipriper
Posted: 1/15/2016
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/15/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Great day on the water. 3 hrs 15 fish limit. Orange whitefish fly and maggots. Tried for walleye after and no luck. Worst part of the day was the dog rolling in the salmon carcasses , bad dog! He had ...
By: GordyC
Posted: 11/9/2016
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/8/2016
Hot Spots: 0
What a nice day Tuesday was for fishing. There was little to no wind on the river and the temperature was in the lower 60's. The whitefish cooperated too. The two of us brought home a total of 22. W...
By: GordyC
Posted: 11/18/2016
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went after whitefish again Wed. at Priest Rapids. Again the weather was nice and the fish cooperated. We brought home 28. We drifted between Whitefish Island and the power lines getting most of the...
By: panfisher
Posted: 11/5/2013
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Three of us decided to check out the whitefish action from Whitefish Island using egg flies.Of coarse caught I caught only one of which was also the smallest. Gordy caught the others with several Zomb...
By: panfisher
Posted: 11/18/2013
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Gordy and I got to the spot (Whitefish Island) about 7:30 am. There was hardly an Island when we pulled up but the water was going down fast enough to give use some dry areas within a few hours. We ca...
By: panfisher
Posted: 11/23/2013
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Gordys famous egg flies with a variety of smelly stuff took most of them. Took 14 home to smoke and make more caviar(check out the forum under culinary delights ) We fished from about 7:30am-2:00pm. s...
By: fishinChristian
Posted: 1/3/2014
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/3/2014
Hot Spots: 0
So, I hadn't been a very good Grandpa lately, and I grabbed the fishingest grandson and went the 60 miles to Priest Rapids. Checked out the island with 10x50 binoculars, and during 20 minutes of stal...
By: wellcraft24
Posted: 7/10/2021
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/10/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Fished above Vernita bridge July 10th. Slow death hooks, bottom bouncers and night crawlers. Had quite a few bites, hard to hook that day for some reason. Lots of sockeye in the river then and many ov...
By: Rivercamp72
Posted: 4/27/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
This was the day just to get out on the water. High cloud cover with increasing wind. High water levels and water temp. was 45 dgreees. I was fishing for Walleye with Macks lure type set-up with sil...
By: Rivercamp72
Posted: 6/25/2010
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I put in north of Vernita Bridge off of SR 243. Water was still running high. Time was about 6:45 AM. Was unable to set my river anchor in the center of the river. I eventually was able to get it ...
By: gpc
Posted: 9/7/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
We fish this stretch of the columbia everytime we go to Desert Aire, mostly because its convienent. Ussually the catch consists of squaw fish, suckers and carp. But this time my buddy hooked into a ni...
By: HDFat1
Posted: 9/15/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/13/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Weather was nice, sweatshirt and shorts, line not too long to launch. Went towards Priest Rapids Dam about 1/4 and trolled using Super Baits. Missed first one about 0800, hooked 2nd one about 830, 3...
By: rickcrit
Posted: 10/4/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Left Spokane around 3:30am arrived at Vernita Bridge around 6 long line at main launch so went over to other launch only 3 people in line.. In the water and gear in water with in 15min fish on right ...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 10/31/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry about the late report. I had some minor, or not so minor, skin surgery just below my eyelid. They ended up having to do reconstructive surgery and a skin graft. Are we having fun yet? Thankf...
By: kokocrazy83
Posted: 10/1/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for Friday 9/29/17. I headed down to Vernita Bridge with my buddy for the first time hoping my research on fishing this area would pay off with some salmon. We had a flat tire on the b...
By: kokocrazy83
Posted: 10/11/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/6/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at the launch at Vernita at 6:50 am and only waited several minutes before we were able to launch our boat and start fishing. There were probably 30 boats in the King Hole and we decided to he...
By: Asianju
Posted: 10/15/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/15/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to give vernita a try even though I have read that fishing has been tough there. Launched at vernita bridge and headed upriver. Tried the Poweline area with no luck and decided to head up some...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 9/9/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/8/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Since my “base of operations” will be Vernita Bridge, I will post my Chinook posts under area 11, however I bounce around and fish areas 9-12.
Saturday was officially my first guided trip in the ne...
