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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam Fishing Reports

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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...
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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 ...
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Posted: 8/24/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the river with the kids and my dad. Decided to throw in my line. Fished six hours with hook and bait but all I did was snaggn' rocks with the gear I had. ran out except one I was savn' for ...
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Posted: 7/19/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/19/2009
Hot Spots: 0
my grandpa my uncle and i went out on the columbia today. We got on the water at about 3:30 and started fishing at about 5. it started slow but soon started to pick up we had a couple strikes and the ...
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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 ...
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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...
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By: Nelly1
Posted: 4/22/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 6am till 4pm with about 200+ boats. Launched at Portco and fished from the i205 bridge to the I-5, trolling a cut plug herring, and a fish flash with a cut plug, on the bottom with no succ...
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By: rseas
Posted: 4/16/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
In trying to bring home a spring Chinook we fished the following rigs; one green fish flash with cut-plug herring, the second a lime green fish flash with cut-plug herring and the third rig was a stra...
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By: RIBOwner
Posted: 4/11/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well the Army Engineers decided to release more water this morning. Too much flow to even troll, and forget about anchoring. Spoke with the Washington F&W and only two fish were checked in. Aft...
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By: RIBOwner
Posted: 4/10/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My friend and I fished for a couple hours after work and no luck. Very few boats out that evening. Spoke to a few guys are the ramp who had fish, but worked all day to get them. Few more days left...
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By: RIBOwner
Posted: 4/4/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well it is that time of year again to fish the "Big C". Was able to boat one springer. It wasn't more than 5 minutes until we had a take down. Weather was o.k. but cold. It is still very early in ...
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Posted: 4/3/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/3/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Friends are down on the river as I write this, last two days they boated 5 fish, trolling herring, fish flash green and lime green. The fish are in and moving up. Pictures forth coming with tomorrows...
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Posted: 3/31/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Worked above the I5 bridge two days, used fish flash, 6oz. dropper, chartruse dyed, salt brined herring. No fish! Talked to many including guides, lots of boats caught no fish. Derby day fly over c...
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By: potato192
Posted: 3/16/2009
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Drove down to the bonneville for some sturgeon action. There were a few other fisherman fishing from the bank. No luck beautiful day no less.
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By: zbo
Posted: 7/30/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Wintler and caught a nice 1.5 pound smallmouth, and my friend caught a small sturgeon maybe 25 inches or so, and a 2 pound smallie. Just used worms on the bottom about 30 yards from shore. Fis...
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Posted: 7/5/2008
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
collective report from two outings. fishing the columbia river right below the I-5 bridge in my boat for sturgeon. we used sandshrimp and shad with the sandshrimp getting all the action. we have ...
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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 ...
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Posted: 6/30/2008
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out today with Lyndon and tried our luck for Sturgeon. Decided to try an old shad I had saved for the last past year and use it as bait. Within a few minutes, Lyndon had caught his first Sturgeo...
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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...
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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...
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Posted: 6/8/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/8/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out today around 11:30. Weather was extremely nice and the water actually seemed a little shallower. decided to try out a new spot and give a couple new products a try. Got some good info from so...
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Posted: 6/7/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went back to fish for Smallmouth today around 8 this morning. Tried using plastic worms with a drop-shot for about 1hr but didn't seem to get more than a nibble. So I went back to my usual hook and wo...
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Posted: 6/4/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went in search of Squaw-fish, but ended up switching over to smallmouth later today. Weather seemed nice, but for some reason...I was getting fewer bites than my previous trips. I'll be back soon. I w...
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Posted: 6/3/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with my cousin to try some Smallie fishing this afternoon. Started getting bites all over the place. Caught my first smallie around 5mins into fishing. Then about an hour later, I hook and la...
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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...
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