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06 - Interstate Bridge to Hells Canyon Dam Fishing Reports
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By: kenbarb
Posted: 12/20/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Yesterday my fishing partner (Barb) was busy with Christmas stuff, she suggested that maybe I should go out for a couple of hours, and try to find a Steelhead, sounded pretty good to me. I have been w...
By: kevin14
Posted: 10/8/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Left WSU at about 530 am and went to the heller bar area of the Snake River with a couple friends. We tried a spot a little above some big rapids and did pretty good. We threw spoons and spinners and ...
By: kenbarb
Posted: 11/13/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The weather report for today looked like a good day to try for a Steelhead, some rain, temp 40*, and a light breeze. We hooked up the boat just as it started gettind daylight and headed upriver on Sn...
By: kenbarb
Posted: 1/31/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/29/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Looked out the living room windows this morning, and it is a sight to behold, heavy clouds, some of them on the canyon walls, a slight drizzle, not a breath of wind, the river looks like glass, a perf...
By: kenbarb
Posted: 2/1/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
It looks like another nice day for Steelhead fishing, looking out the windows while having the morning coffee we can see a little ripple on the water, it is cloudy, rained during the night, outside te...
By: kevin14
Posted: 10/7/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished heller bar with my friend bonner Daniels and we hooked 20 steelhead and 2 kings At heller bar! One king was 40+ pounds easily and we fought it for over an hour before it spooled us! Every boat ...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 5/21/2014
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Got to spend a day with some great clients of mine fishing for Sturgeon in the Heller's Bar Area of the Snake River. The water was higher than normal and the weather a little unsettled. We only pick...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 11/10/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished today in the Heller Bar Area of the Snake River. We had a great day going 10-15 side drifting corkies and eggs. It took us a while to get on the fish today but once we did we experienced some ...
By: kenbarb
Posted: 11/11/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Our plan was to get up early, and have the boat launched by 6:30am, as luck would have it things went as planned, I had spent a few hours the day before getting the gear ready, sharp hooks, new leader...
By: kenbarb
Posted: 11/14/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/14/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Last night at 6:30pm I turned on the outside lights, and saw snow coming down. Our plan was to get up in the morning at 5:00am, and have the lines in the water by 8:00am, before going to sleep I was t...
By: Ruffneck18
Posted: 12/14/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/13/2014
Hot Spots: 0
We (4 of us) started the morning at the crack of dawn dropping the 20" HCM in at the launch just above Asotin. Caught about a 7 lbs. native at the powerlines about 20 minutes into the morning. 2 hour...
By: kenbarb
Posted: 1/12/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
What a great day to chase Steelhead, the canyon walls are covered with patches of fog in the ravines, the river is like glass, not a whisper of a breeze. I ask Barb if she would like to go out after f...
By: kenbarb
Posted: 1/29/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/28/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Really late getting out, it's about 2:30pm when we get the boat launched. Our plan is to fish a run that is only a couple of miles away, we will have about a hour and a half to fish.
We arrive at t...
By: kenbarb
Posted: 2/3/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Looking across the river at the canyon walls there is a blanket of low clouds at the top with patchy fog in the ravines, and no wind, it's a pretty sight to wake up to, perfect Steelheading weather. T...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 5/12/2015
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2015
Hot Spots: 0
With the Snake River closing to spring chinook fishing in the Clarkston area I decided to switch gears yesterday and got out for my first targeted sturgeon fishing of the year. The weather was absolut...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 10/26/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
We had a fantastic day of steelhead fishing yesterday out of Heller Bar on the Snake River. Water temperatures have finally dropped to the lower 50's and the fishing is now on fire. We landed 11 stee...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 11/5/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/5/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Heller bar on the Snake River in Washington continues to fish absolutely fantastic for steelhead. Today we had two boats out, a total of 6 anglers, and we boated 23 great fighting steelhead. The water...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 12/20/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the day yesterday with some great customers. We launched out of heller bar for a day of steelhead fishing. Fishing was decent yesterday and we ended up with 5 nice steelhead for 3 rods fishing. ...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 1/14/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/14/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We had an absolutely fantastic day on the lower end of Hell's Canyon today. We started our day out of Heller Bar at daylight and quickly found ourselves in the middle of an absolutely gorgeous day on ...
By: kenbarb
Posted: 1/15/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/15/2016
Hot Spots: 0
First I want to thank all of you guys that have been submitting reports, I have really enjoyed reading them, but sorry to say that I have not been contributing. Barb and I have been going out about tw...
By: kenbarb
Posted: 1/28/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/22/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The weather report looked like good fishing, cloudy with scattered rain, Barb and I got up at 4:30am in order to be fishing near daybreak; the gravel launch site we will use is about 15 minutes from o...
By: kenbarb
Posted: 2/2/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The daytime temps have been in the 50's all week here in Hell's Canyon, the river flow has been high, and it has risen about two feet, but is still reasonably clear for fishing. Until today the wind h...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 2/16/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/15/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The Snake River out of Heller Bar continues to fish well. Yesterday we had a great day on the river with only 2 customers going 6-10 on Steelhead and also landing a 3 foot sturgeon on steelhead gear....
By: kenbarb
Posted: 2/25/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/13/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The weather report for today looks like it will be great for fishing, some clouds, and not much wind. We set the alarm for 5:00AM, and pull the boat out of the shop at 6:30, it was already getting day...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 3/13/2016
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/12/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We snuck out yesterday for an early Sturgeon fishing trip on the Snake River out of Heller Bar. With our steelhead season behind us we have been switched over to targeting catch and release sturgeon. ...
