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07 - The Dalles to McNary (Celilo/Umatilla) Fishing Reports
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By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 3/30/2017
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Keeper sturgeon retention in the John Day Pool closed to retention March 30th. Despite tough river conditions and a low quota, we were able to catch several keepers and many more over/under fish! It...
By: REELTIMEGS
Posted: 4/15/2016
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/15/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished below John Day Dam for Sturgeon water was high wind was horrific but we landed 6 fish 5 undersized and one oversized. Wind is supposed to lay down tomorrow and we are going to fish half day S...
By: rwraces
Posted: 6/12/2013
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My wife and I hit the water around 6:30 am around Irrigon area. Anchored up not too far from a friend that was already anchored. He and his buddy caught several oversize and one keeper. We fished a...
By: SsendaM
Posted: 8/19/2013
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Took the trip from CDA, ID to Mcnary Dam for the weekend with the intention of landing a oversized Sturgeon and we did just that. I found some shad floating down the river a few weeks ago after work,...
By: Roguebear
Posted: 2/23/2013
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
After three weeks of waiting for new transducers and respooling down riggers. I finally made it out to the water. Morning started out great no wind, river was like glass great way to get back out on t...
By: SsendaM
Posted: 2/12/2012
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The fishing was tough on Lake Umatilla over the weekend. The weather and getting a fishing buddy his first Sturgeon made it well worth the effort. We fished Sat-Sun with only 2 bites and one fish to...
By: THester
Posted: 3/12/2011
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Rough morning trying to target some keepers. Herring, Squid, Roll Mop, No luck No boats on the water either so they must know something I dont.
By: rippinlips22
Posted: 7/7/2009
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Below John Day Dam again for sturgeon for a few hours on the 4th. Hooked 5 and landed 3 in 2-3 hours. Great day, no wind and good friends. Biggest was 8'7" and had one break our 12/0 Big River ...
By: rippinlips22
Posted: 6/17/2009
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished below John Day Dam for shad and sturgeon and was able to have the best day oversized sturgeon fishing trip I have had yet. There was no shortage of bait to be caught either, which is always nic...
By: mauifisher
Posted: 10/31/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished above Ice Harbor. 1 Fish half an hour in and a catfish around noon. Left ramp at 0600and went home at 1730. Nice Hatchery fish Brads lighted lure. Thats the hot ticket
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 6/10/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I recently met Dave, a caretaker at Crow's Butte State park down on the Mid Columbia and he was all abuzz about recent catches of big Walleye near the Park. Of course after hearing that I was ready an...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/19/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Rock Creek area of the Columbia for smallmouth yesterday, Found fish on the flats in 10-12 ft of water staging for the spawn. Trolled plugs and hooked about 15 for about 2 hrs of fishing.
Gol...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/17/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Jim and I went to the Columbia river below John Day to fish for smallmouth. The water temperature is approaching 60 deg, light wind and sunny. Fished with mainly plugs, chartreuse was the best color, ...
By: raptorschild
Posted: 6/7/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for Walleye at Patterson and got blanked. DIdnt see any other boats catch any either, save 1 shaker.
So we switched to smallmouth fishing current seams in the main river and hammered small...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/19/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The Jigmeister and I were at Crowe Butte; we started fishing about 10:00 in the morning over near the pump station. Jiggy got a couple of one pounders over the next hour and a half on some jigs that h...
By: bbrebozo
Posted: 7/23/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Great day on the Columbia. We managed to release 62 Smallmouth ranging from 1/2 pound to 2 1/2 pounds. We lost 15 or more besides on jumps. Lipless crankbaits were the ticket in Blue/silver.We fished ...
By: tanner214
Posted: 5/9/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
went to rock creek and roosevelt today. the weather was very windy and cold the fishing was pretty slow caught 15-20 smallies on 3 inch gulp minnows and kalins 3 inch grubs in brown and chartruse. i h...
By: tanner214
Posted: 5/20/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hey guys, got to go down to one of my favorite places to fish today with my son. But befor we headed out we made a quick stop by my bro jiggy's house to get some of his homemade jigs. He wanted us to ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/26/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished with Aaron and Mike Gibney as part of Ed Iman's Fish Camp 2012. We tossed plastics and plugs along shore to some of Mike's prime locations. The fishing was very steady all day. We probably caug...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/14/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/8/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished with Tournament pro Michael Gibney and Dennis Clay for smallmouth bass. We spent the morning casting mainly rattletraps. I was using blue, Dennis had perch. Michael uses swim baits, surface lur...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 5/24/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I just had to say that the Smallmouth Bass fishing has been smokin' hot on the Mid Columbia this year with my friends and fishing brothers tearing the Smallies up off of the bank and in the boat from ...
By: fisherman92
Posted: 5/23/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Went to maryhill camping for an extended weekend targeting smallmouth. We fished the Columbia the night of the 18th and afternoon of the 19th. 4 of us caught a hand full of bass 2 walleye which was a ...
By: pgfrmr
Posted: 9/21/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/15/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Wanted to label this report, "Smoking hot fishin", but changed it to "Fishin in a fire fog." Had planned this trip with my buddy, Slippery Jack" for a while as the moon phase, temperatures and wind fo...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/29/2018
Species: Shad
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/23/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Late report...
Last weekend I got to fish with Jacob Munden of Rising Son Adventures for a future NWFR TV episode on shad fishing the Columbia River. Joining me were Rob and Hillary Holman and Rob ...
By: phishphool
Posted: 6/13/2014
Species: Shad
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished below McNary Dam just up from the boat launch on the Washington side. Anchored in 15 feet of water and ran chartruese, red and pink shad darts behind de-hooked magnum wiggle warts. We had 4 p...
