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By: returnofthefish
Posted: 5/27/2014
Species: Shad
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I know its a little early in the shad run, but I went anyways hoping to catch between 10-15 shad. Got there early for the morning bite around 7am. Got one after a dozen or so casts and snags. i though...
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 6/11/2012
Species: Shad
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Made my annual shad fishing trip again. It was packed and parking was hard to find at 8 in the morning. Saw a few cars from Oregon taking advantage of free fishing weekend. Talked to a few guys that r...
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 6/20/2012
Species: Shad
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
After years of failing at catching many shad, I finally win. Past results ranged from being skunked to 2 shad. This year, I broke the double digit mark. I was schooled by a shad fisherman with decades...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 5/30/2013
Species: Shad
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/28/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I went fishing for shad for the second time in my life. This was the first time I found success! I fished near Bonneville Dam, but quite aways down from the crowd. I was happy to trade productivity fo...
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 6/2/2013
Species: Shad
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Started the day late, so got there around 2PM. I was planning to fish at the parking lot closest to the dam, but I saw my buddy way down stream at his car. He told me it was packed by the dam and he d...
By: Ganno
Posted: 6/5/2013
Species: Shad
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Great day on the Columbia lots of bites once we located a lane that the fish were using .Fishing by Camas in thirteen feet of water with a small Dick Nite white with red head . The bite was fast and f...
By: HULI_ISDA
Posted: 6/8/2013
Species: Shad
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well first time fishing the dam a friend tag me along with and it was a blast this fish can fight with ultra light tavle using sad jigs. Started the long drive from edmonds last night at 11pm got ther...
By: tluedeke
Posted: 6/9/2013
Species: Shad
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished my annual shad run on the Columbia, Oregon side, on Bradford Island, facing the Washington shore. Did this a number of times in the late 90s/early 2000s, and after relocated out of and then ba...
By: dzfish
Posted: 6/11/2013
Species: Shad
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Three buddies of mine from work ( Mr KAZ, He who fishes well, and He who sits a lot ) took a trip down to the bonneville dam to try and hook up with some shad. We left at 02:30 am from the house and a...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/17/2013
Species: Shad
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Today I got to fish for shad for the first time (well, I fished a bit last night I’m counting this as the first serious effort).
I arrived at 5:30am at the location closest to the dam, about 30 yar...
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 6/7/2009
Species: Shad
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went shad fishing for the first time ever. We traveled 3.5 hours from Seattle to see what the shad fishing was all about. The dam access road was easy to find. We picked the very first spot we could f...
By: ckim85
Posted: 6/17/2009
Species: Shad
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Took a 2 day camping trip out to Columbia River over at Beacon Rock state park. Scenery is absolutely gorgeous and we had a lot of fun camping.
We hit up right by the Bonneville Dam from the shore ...
By: jens
Posted: 6/2/2010
Species: Shad
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I started my morning fishing for Smallies at my little secluded spot at Ashes. I fished from 5am to 10:30am. The action was surprisingly slow. I landed 4 small dinks biggest maybe a pound and 1 lost ...
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 6/14/2010
Species: Shad
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished below the dam from 8am to 2pm. I only had 2 shad on my line all day. Using 6 pound leader was a bad idea. Didnt see many caught from other fisherman fishing with shad darts. Two people plunking...
By: blurock
Posted: 6/9/2011
Species: Shad
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Being in Portland for the week, I had the whole afternoon with nothing to do so I decided to cross back over into Washington and try my hand at Shad fishing for the very first time. I'd gotten some t...
By: SportRadical
Posted: 6/9/2011
Species: Shad
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Headed down to Bonneville to try and catch some shad. Shad are full of bones and almost not worth eating, but last year I caught 35 in one day so fun is fun. Plus i have been itching to try out my new...
By: san
Posted: 6/12/2018
Species: Shad
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/11/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Report for last Tuessday and yesterday
Shad
Last tuesday caught 105.
Yesterday, 90.
It was a fun couple of trips.
By: san
Posted: 6/6/2016
Species: Shad
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Target Species: Shad
Number of Shad passed through the Bonneville Dam: 50625
We got there at 4:45am and there was already a long line waiting for the gate to open.
Got 2 in the first 20 mins,...
By: lskiles
Posted: 6/3/2008
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Catapiller Island. The water was so high that only three or four of the concrete planks of the boat ramp were out of the water. The water was brown and fast. Fished for about a half-hour a...
By: zbo
Posted: 7/3/2008
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I went to this little spot that not a lot of people fish down off of Old Evergreen Highway. I catch good sized Perch there in late summer when the water is lower. I was just seeing if I could get any ...
By: 64omcangeler
Posted: 6/13/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
when i walked own the path and thought i was seeing thing when i seen how dam high the water was there was just a lil clearing to go straight out an that was it and i was use night crawlers and a barb...
By: zbo
Posted: 6/28/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Wintler today and fished down near the private property and away from the swimmers. I caught an 11 inch squawfish and a 13 inch peamouth, but no sucker fish or sturgeon were biting. I missed a...
By: zbo
Posted: 5/26/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well today I went to the spot where fishermanmax had done his shad fishing, but i did not have the same success. The main problem was that I do not know how to fish for shad, but also it was very crow...
By: zbo
Posted: 5/30/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I went to Wintler with my friend Melila and we didn't get anything for about an hour, but then he hooked a 10" squaw and we threw it on the stringer so I could turn it in for my 4$. So a little later ...
By: Dillpepsi123
Posted: 6/1/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Me and my brother went out to the Columbia on our 12 foot raft(Kinda scary). We started fishing at the steamboat landing dock. the water was moving really fast because the water is so high. We tried t...
