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20 - Upper Columbia River to Canadian Border Fishing Reports
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By: Pat Perez
Posted: 7/12/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Great weekend of fishing on the Columbia River at Brewster. Limited out on Sockeye on Saturday, and again by 10:00 AM on Sunday. After limiting out we went for Kings, and I caught my largest Chinook. ...
By: moosezema
Posted: 7/5/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Been catching alot of small walleyes, but finally hooked into one that was worth a picture a seven pounder. Water is high and fishing areas are changing daily. Hunt and find where and what they want...
By: moosezema
Posted: 8/9/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Caught this Pike next to the border yesterday. First one for me and I am sure wont be the last. Won't help the trout fishery out so I did my part to remove it.
By: ReelFunTimes
Posted: 3/16/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
We launched out of Hunters around 6:30 AM with light fog and decided to head North upstream, I trolled Fly's with no success Frisky Jennys Lk Roosevelt trying a Super Natural and Fire Ant and going on...
By: First Light
Posted: 1/26/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/26/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Launched @ Kettle Falls @ 9am and fished until 3:30pm. Ran south to the Colville Flats, trolled a triangle pattern in and out of the confluence. Water Temp was 38* inside and 38.4* outside. No other...
By: First Light
Posted: 1/28/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/28/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Launched @ Gifford by ourselves @ 8am. A steady drizzle welcomed us. Fished North on the East side working the points for 3-4 miles. Caught a nice rainbow right out of the gate on a pink squid with a ...
By: moosezema
Posted: 2/9/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Epic day on the upper Columbia. Weather was great and sun came out. Fishing was unbelievable with trout ranging 2-5 pounds all day. Water had just the right push to keep fish feeding all day. Great...
By: nwbhoss
Posted: 5/29/2021
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Starting to get a handle on these Walleye. I spent the weekend at my buddies place in Gifford and only fished a couple hours 2 days. I was looking at property the rest of the time and put in an offer ...
By: First Light
Posted: 2/2/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Cabin fever took my senses from me as I left the house facing a cold wind. The dogs had to go for a walk so I took my rod as well. Down to the flats for a quick short walk. Wow. is the water up! Firs...
By: the ripper
Posted: 10/11/2013
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
wow ! Night fishing for walleye is hot right now on the upper columbia. caught 5 18 to 16 inchers in an hour or so from shore throwing perch shad raps.Also hooked some with shad style jigs tippe...
By: MaxExp82
Posted: 7/6/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/3/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Camped around Northport this weekend , hit the river with some large gold spoons right at dusk when the hatch started to get heavy . Landed an 18 inch rainbow , good fighter .
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/15/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Aaron and I finished off our day with an evening guide trip with Justin of FarNorth Charters (509-684-6870). The morning rain was finished and the wind was dying down. Justin ran us to the farthest po...
By: moosezema
Posted: 2/17/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/13/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Another epic day on the upper Columbia River. We caught brook trout, bull trout, rainbow trout, and cutbow trout but to top it off we caught and released what would of been the state record Westslope...
By: TheEveningHatch
Posted: 5/28/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Nymphing continues to be the ticket...River came up substantially over the last 48 hours. Currently @ 222K. Regardless, we caught fish. The landing results were not as good as the 'awesome day' two ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/15/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/12/2009
Hot Spots: 0
We arrived at the Lazy Daze B and B just in time for host Art Grobben take us to his honey hole for some trophy rainbow trout. I hadn't cast a floating fly line (and Aaron never had) in quite awhile s...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/13/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished this morning with Justin of Far North Charters (509-684-6870) and Aaron from WL.com. We fished the upper Columbia river for the huge redband rainbow trout that are renown for this area. A weath...
By: Bassafras
Posted: 8/7/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
1st year fly fishing, had a friend of mine show me his spot up above Northport on the Columbia. I've heard a lot of good things about fly fishing this part of the river and was excited to see it for ...
By: TheEveningHatch
Posted: 5/7/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Caddis are starting to show in good numbers. The Mother's Day Caddis variety - american Grannoms. The nymph and dry fly game is picking up momentum. The streamer game is still producing but overall sl...
By: TheEveningHatch
Posted: 5/16/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The Upper Columbia river has been fishing good to great with both the nymph and the dry. We should continue to see some good rises this next week with cloud cover and potential Caddis and Mayfly ext...
By: wire3714
Posted: 7/15/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/15/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished out of Daisy with my son. Boarded 5 small ones and 1 at 9lbs
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 9/1/2020
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/22/2020
Hot Spots: 1
This is kind of a delayed report, as well as I have had trouble finding the area within NWFR, to report on the Kettle Falls portion of Lake Roosevelt. The website has become too large, and not nearly...
Posted: 6/10/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/10/2019
Hot Spots: 0
These guys did an excellent job of fishing for Walleye today. This was their first time jigging for Walleye. We launched from Kettle falls and traveled about seven miles North. The Walleye hit on all...
By: Lambojac
Posted: 6/19/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/17/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on the shoreline at about 10AM between Daisy and Gifford. Threw out a hook and worm and let them sit for about an hour on the bottom with no luck. I switched one pole over to a jig and grub wi...
By: kevinbe
Posted: 12/27/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Brother in law and I took our annual winter trip up to Northport on the mighty Rosevelt, where the current is amazing. We left town at 5:oo and arrived at Northport at 7:20. We were welcomed by snow...
By: kevinbe
Posted: 2/25/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Brother in laws made the trip up to Northport again. We left spokane at 4:00 this morning and were greeted to 4" of snow on the way up. Got to Northport at 6:30 and had lines in the water by 7:00. ...
