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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/12/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Spent 10 hours on the C nothing to show for but the receipts. The day started good with what looked like a break in the weather, we launched @ 4:30 am w/o even real wating. That was was the only good....
By: Trent
Posted: 3/17/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
.... okay, it wasn't really a "slaughter". But a few more Springers went through yesterday, and once again I'm stuck at work while Paul & Tim send me these pictures. My turn is coming...... SOON!
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By: ROTTEN CHUM
Posted: 4/25/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the last 3 days of the Lower Columbia Springer season and it was pretty darn good for us. We ended up going 13 for 20 on Hatchery Springers trolling headless green labels and a medium sized fi...
By: AnvilOutdoorsGS
Posted: 3/8/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/5/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Spring isn't here yet but some of the fish are. Hooked into 4 Chinook on the lower Columbia out of Kalama last Monday. In 4 trips now we hooked into 10 kings. Lost a few, sea lion took another and to...
By: AnvilOutdoorsGS
Posted: 3/23/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/23/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We picked up a nice 14 lb buck today out on the Columbia. It crushed a chartreuse with Pro Cure anise green label herring on a custom Fish Flash. This 11 year old Natalee Yoakum's first Spring Chinook...
By: Ganno
Posted: 3/28/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Launched At Kalama marina 7AM to a clear but foggy morning no GPS so decided to head straight across to the island as visibility was limited. Set up a downstream troll using fish flash and dyed blue ...
By: tyee4me
Posted: 4/22/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/11/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Woke up at 4:30am drove from Longview, WA to Warren, OR where we met our guide. We spent most of the day trolling up and down the Columbia. We seen 2 fish taken by boats and 4 fish taken by Sea Lions!...
Posted: 9/20/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the last few days trolling for Chinook on the Columbia. Bite is best around the tide changes using Pro Troll and Brad's Super Bait. Water Temp has started to cool making the fish more active. ...
Posted: 9/26/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/24/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Just when you think the fishing will be starting to slow more start showing up. We have been getting great Chinook and a few Coho in the Columbia. This week I will still be fishing the Columbia and ...
By: Jasper Casbeer
Posted: 6/17/2017
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/17/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Hello All,
Hate giving it a 2 when salmon fishing but hooked only one. It was a keeper! Wasnt marking a lot and only watched on other hook up. Fished all morning, took a bit to learn how my depth w...
By: Jasper Casbeer
Posted: 6/24/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/24/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Hi all,
Great day... 3 hits one to the boat 25lb wild so let it go. One monster hit and snapped a bead chain. The other shook off early in the fight. Took a buddy who has only trout fished. Think h...
Posted: 9/21/2017
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/21/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing is getting better each day. With the recent rain it has cooled down the water and helped to move more fish into the system. Trolling has been best, using Shortbus 360 flashers and Brad's min...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 3/16/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/16/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to try for the springers today with hopes of hitting them early. I went down to Ridgefield with my buddy Lonzo and we launched the boat about 7:30, fished till 2 in the afternoon. We tried s...
By: erick442
Posted: 3/19/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/18/2018
Hot Spots: 0
So after a month of straight remodeling the house then a month gone to CA., I spent Saturday rebuilding the Carb on the kicker motor in hopes of getting out on the river for Springer's. Not that I ha...
By: AnvilOutdoorsGS
Posted: 4/6/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/4/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Larger fish showing up daily. Surprised to see so many fish over 12lbs. Landed a 18# yesterday and a #14 today. Wind and Rain have moved in and the Columbia River will be rising a few feet in the nex...
By: tmanh2o
Posted: 4/7/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/3/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Hello NWFR,
Was on the water last Wednesday and went out on a Guided fishing adventure. Of course we were targeting the wonderful Springer Chinooks. We met our guide and his boat ready to go a...
By: zackbassattack
Posted: 7/10/2007
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/10/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Frenchman's Bar today (idk what range that is so i just said lower vancouver) with some friends. We were mostly goin to swim but we found a good spot by the jetty type thing where a few piling...
By: lskiles
Posted: 10/2/2007
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/29/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Had a good time at Catapillar Island...was not sure where to put this report on the site.
Hit the water late...noonish. The boat launch was not as busy as it has been. Used worms under a sliding floa...
Posted: 4/12/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the Columbia River for Springers both Saturday and Sunday. It was pretty good both days. Saturday we went 2 for 5 and Sunday 3 for 8. Fishing has been tough, the water is high, it's a bit out...
By: mrem27
Posted: 7/21/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
First time "plunking", gotta admit, pretty boring but caught my biggest fish of the season thus far, 21" sucker... I was using a spin -glo in black and green color sceme 20" of leader with a sand shri...
By: mrem27
Posted: 7/27/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Frenchmans bar, three and a half hours today, I was using red cured sand shrimp on a size six spin glo plunking rig, got three hard hits that rang the bells on the rod but no fish just an empty hook. ...
By: zbo
Posted: 5/25/2009
Species: Catfish
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went night fishing for cats in the Felida Moorage area with 2 friends. First night we caught 3 with the biggest around 5" and the second night caught around 10 with the biggest being 11" and a little ...
Posted: 7/6/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Brought one home lost two others spin glo and coon tail shrimp
By: Ganno
Posted: 3/1/2015
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/28/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Needed a tug on my fishing rod so decided to fish sturgeon in the Kalama area as this is usually a sure thing you cant keep them but fun to catch. Was fishing by 9AM at a spot that normally produces...
By: Old Man River
Posted: 8/3/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/31/2013
Hot Spots: 0
In 3 days during the week of July 22 my son and his buddies from work put over 20 summer run to the net and kept 10 marked fish. Fished below mouth of the Cowlitz. Thought I'd try it on my son's nex...
