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By: kenbarb
Posted: 10/29/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
What a great day for fishing, from our living room window I watched a Spey Flyfisherman land a nice Steelhead, then saw a boat fisherman land one. There is a lot of Steelhead in the river.
We opted...
By: kenbarb
Posted: 11/1/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/31/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Yesterday was such a beautiful day in Hell's Canyon, the sun is shining, air is crisp, the Snake River is like glass, perfect day for steelheading.
We launch the boat off the gravel/rock launch abo...
By: kenbarb
Posted: 11/2/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Today's plan was to fish the Clearwater in Idaho, the Clearwater/Snake Steelhead Derby starts on the 5th which is this saturday, and we wanted to get in some pre-fishing. The weather report did not so...
By: kenbarb
Posted: 11/4/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Yesterday was A little overcast with the sun coming out occasionally, very calm, crispy cool, perfect Steelhead weather.
Barb sets the time to go fishing at high noon, I have sharpened all the hoo...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/17/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Heller at 8:30 am. Ran up above the mouth of the Imnaha and fished down from there. Backtrolled hotlips in the 25 foot dive variety, and Brad's MagWarts. Purple and red seemed to be providing t...
By: kenbarb
Posted: 11/20/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Barb and I fished the Snake/ Clearwater Steelhead Derby all eight days, from daylight to dark. We fished the Clearwater for Three days, then the rest of the time on the Snake. The Clearwater produced ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/20/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well after reading the reports about how the upper snake was doing I decided to give it a try. So after the snow storm I loaded my first mate (9 year old son) and a friend that has fished for steelhea...
By: kenbarb
Posted: 11/24/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
What a day, the sun is shining, ambient temp. is close to 50*, not a breath of wind, and the Snake River looks so ever inviting. Barb has informed me that she will not be going fishing with me today, ...
By: kenbarb
Posted: 11/26/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Our Thanksgiving guests Lois & Larry wanted to go out in the boat, the plan was to get close up pictures of Bighorn Mountain Sheep, the rams are in full rut and banging heads, after doing that maybe t...
By: kenbarb
Posted: 12/4/2011
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Barb said she would go out fishing with me if we could go later, in her language that means afternoon, her first priority at this time is Christmas, even with a river full of Steelhead. It will be a s...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/26/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/22/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing the Snake River with Snake Dancer Excursions is always a treat. Owner Gabe knows the river like the back of his hand and can practically call out the fish ahead of the cast. We met up with Gab...
By: kevinfishon
Posted: 10/31/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/31/2011
Hot Spots: 0
what an awesome day of fishing. My dad and my friend donovan came up to pullman friday night. We left early saturday morning to go fish heller bar for steelhead with bonner daniels. The morning was a ...
By: Hoss 350
Posted: 12/8/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry this took so long to post up, but I’ve been running pretty rich recently with the late-season cow tags I drew for December.
I went Steelhead fishing November 13th on the snake, thought I’d ...
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: 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: 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: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/6/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I checked off another adventure to a new fishing location from my bucket list, this time fishing for steelhead on the Snake River with guide Adam Hocking of Steel Dreams Guide Service.
The drive i...
By: Kenaiwild
Posted: 9/9/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/6/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to fish for an hour or so. Caught a lot of dinks and then this one. My biggest yet.
By: Noah
Posted: 10/24/2018
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/19/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Heller bar was good in the morning but bites were tentative and rare the rest of the day. Changed things up for lunch with a 9' sturgeon :-)
Guided by Northwest Fishing Expeditions, Shane Reynolds.
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/9/2018
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/5/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I got to fish a Bucket List location on a trip with Rob and Aaron to the Snake River, Hells Canyon, with Snake Dancer Excursions. We fished on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday was mostly about exploring,...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 10/16/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/15/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We had another fantastic day yesterday fishing the Snake River out of Heller Bar for both Fall Chinook Salmon and Steelhead. Between salmon and Steelhead we landed 10 plus adult fish and numerous Chi...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 10/18/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/18/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We had a great day of Steelhead fishing today in Hells Canyon. We fished out of the Heller Bar area. Today was a mixture of frustration and jubilation as the river went from decently fishable in the m...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 11/7/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Over the weekend we spent some time fishing in the Heller Bar area of the Snake River, and despite the low return numbers and the negative Steelhead press we did very well. On Saturday I had two custo...
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. ...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 5/31/2016
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We had the great fortune yesterday to spend a wonderful day on the Snake River near Heller Bar chasing oversize catch and release sturgeon and small mouth bass. Both the sturgeon and bass fishing can...
