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By: Robert4444
Posted: 7/19/2010
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This was my first sturgeon fishing experience. Launched from Kalama around 9am. Four of us fishing. Did no good at the first spot, moved and ended up catching six at the second location. Unfortunately...
By: Trout_hunter
Posted: 2/8/2012
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
got out on the Columbia for sturgeon for the first time this year on Saturday. Beautiful morning until the wind picked up around 10am. Fishing above a hole near Kalama. Caught one keeper and a shak...
By: Acefishon
Posted: 6/14/2012
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
wow what a day sorry reports late but here it is fish in Longview right up from bridge and first fish small then five min later after 47 min fight caught 7foot 2inch long sturgin must weight about 230...
By: Acefishon
Posted: 1/3/2013
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well fish for sturgion out kalama and have to say worst day of the year no bites and talk other boats only one shaker out 6 boats and 10 rods .I think the water temps might be problem temp was 39 deg...
By: Natebg1
Posted: 5/17/2013
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Great Day on the Columbia River with a Guide Service "The Sturgeon General" My buddy and I have been talking about doing this trip for about 2 years and since he is heading back to the East Coast next...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/17/2013
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Day One of my Father’s Day fishing adventure felt kind of weird to be away from home and on my own. A sign of grown kids - my younger son wasn’t interested in a two day fishing trip, and the older boy...
By: Ganno
Posted: 1/28/2010
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I heard reports of smelt in the Columbia River so i thought i would give sturgeon fishing a try. Packed up boat and some of last years smelt and headed for Kalama, arrived at bot launch at eight AM he...
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: SFCMcGan
Posted: 3/5/2017
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Buddy and me headed down to the Longview boat launch (which is awesome). linked up with a couple of awesome guys that fish the heck out of the Columbia! Put the boat in around 9am and headed out to se...
By: SFCMcGan
Posted: 10/22/2017
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/21/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the Willow Grove launch before daylight... few boats in line. Got on the water quickly, headed to a spot just down river.. Rain and wind ... got to our planned spot, already a line of boats alo...
Posted: 7/28/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/25/2017
Hot Spots: 0
We are wrapping up fishing on the Columbia for Steelhead and will be setting up for Buoy 10. Steelhead fishing this year was fair, we where able to get some nice fish but had to work for them. We ar...
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: 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...
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: Anonymous
Posted: 7/21/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Caught limits of Summer Steelhead on the Columbia today. We were Between mouth of Cowlitz and Kalama Rivers. Plunking Spin and Glow with Coon Striped Shrimp about 2 feet of the bottom.
One about ...
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. ...
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: 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: 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...
By: Lip_Ripper87
Posted: 5/19/2015
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Holy wow, where do I start. I have had good days for pikeminnow bounty fishing. But today took the cake! I wen through a brand new dozen count worms in 2 hours. The bite was on! Fished kalama marina a...
By: Moldy Chum
Posted: 7/18/2016
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Tried our hand at catching "Squawfish" or Northern Pikeminnow for any of you who prefer to be politically correct. Had no earthly idea what I was doing but here is what I learned...
1) Squawfish li...
By: chantaclair
Posted: 9/5/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
left my house at about noon to go down and fish by the mouth of the cowlitz. had camp set up by 3 at the paradise point state park. Me and my fishing partner were bored so we went to rainier,oregon to...
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 ...
