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07 - The Dalles to McNary (Celilo/Umatilla) Fishing Reports
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By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 6/19/2009
Species: Shad
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well Shad fans...Those hard figthing silver fish are definately here! Headed down to John Day and picked up a one day Oregon license for 12 bucks and gave Shad fishing a shot. They were hitting all m...
By: MGTom
Posted: 9/5/2019
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/5/2019
Hot Spots: 0
What a disappointment. Had been watching the numbers come up so we thought we would give it a go, and had high hopes of salmon for dinner. The Umatilla launch is only about 55 minutes from Walla Walla...
By: MGTom
Posted: 9/11/2019
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/11/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Left out of Umatilla at 6:30 and fished until 11:00. No fish caught, however today seemed more fishy than last week. We marked fish in a couple spots, saw some surface activity from the salmonoids, an...
Posted: 9/15/2019
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/15/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Not yet for me - saw three caught between 7-730 then screen went clear and saw no more caught - left the water about 11. About 15-16
boats all trolling big flashers and the usual terminal stuff. No n...
By: stewie56
Posted: 6/30/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out htis moring form six to nine in hopes of some dinner for tonight.
I had put rainbow trout as target fish but i was really trying to see if anything would bite.. I never got a nibble but i u...
By: Zamouie
Posted: 7/9/2017
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for Shad.
Launched from the Umatilla boat launch around 17:00 or so, went across to the Wash side by the Plymouth park boat launch.
We anchored up but were not seeing any action. Some nic...
By: cwbraue
Posted: 10/24/2015
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I went fishing with a coworker today on the Columbia river. He likes fishing here in the spring for Smallmouths but he had never fished here in the fall and I convinced him to go. We went to his fav...
By: MGTom
Posted: 6/15/2020
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/15/2020
Hot Spots: 0
With the shad counts up we fished out of Umatilla today and caught some shad and a walleye. The fishing wasn't fast but consistent and we kept a few. Dick Nites and Triple Teasers worked today, with a...
By: Tie1on
Posted: 6/19/2020
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/18/2020
Hot Spots: 0
SHAD - Took my catching buddy out for a few hours to get some shad because it makes GREAT crab bait. Counts over McNary were looking pretty solid so we anchored up below bridge in about 16 feet of wat...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 9/16/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/10/2018
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for our annual trip to fish the mouth of the Deschutes on the Columbia above The Dalles Dam. My brother in law Dan came along as my wife was ill and unable to join me for this trip. A...
By: Filletaway
Posted: 9/19/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/18/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great day with Aaron Peterson of Peterson's Northwest a Fillet Away Ambassador. We were trolling at Drano, both in the lake and in the Bowl. We ran both spinners and super baits, all behind a P...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 9/24/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/21/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Now is a transition time for us as we target Fall Kings. I like to start fishing the Hanford Reach the 3rd week in September, but some years depending on conditions, the fish lag behind a bit and I w...
Posted: 4/15/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/15/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This is just a heads up on springer fishing. The fish are starting to head up river. I'm headed down next week. I still have some prime dates open. This is a great fishery and I guaranty to catch fi...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 4/26/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/25/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Our Columbia River Spring Chinook season has kicked back into high gear. We started this week fishing near John Day Dam on the Columbia River. Yesterday was our first official trip and we had a fant...
By: REELTIMEGS
Posted: 4/26/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/26/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We have been picking up great numbers of Stugeon, Walleye and starting to catch spring kings on sardine wrapped kwiks, mag lips and killer fish. We will be hanging in the John Day Dam pool for the ne...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 5/3/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We had a fantastic morning today on the Columbia River near John Day Dam! I only had one customer in the boat today but we went 2-4 and had our limit by 6am! Our success came on maglip 4.5 plugs in ...
By: thebug
Posted: 5/3/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We fished today just below John Day at Rufus and got skunked. We threw every combination from cut plug and rouge river herring, quick fish and prawn rigs with no luck. At the peak we counted 33 boats ...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 5/6/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We had another great day today fishing below the John Day Dam for great fighting and even greater eating spring Chinook. We landed a total of 5 fish today, but only ended with 2 keepers.
Our best ...
By: scuby
Posted: 9/9/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
First trip of the year and first TOAD within 10-15 mins of being on the water.... Good morning bite and it seemed that everything just died off around 1030 ish. Its going to be crazy with boats here i...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 9/14/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for our annual trip to fish the Columbia at the mouth of the Deschutes River. I arrived the night of the 28th of August and stayed until September 10th.
The wind blew HARD for the f...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/19/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I returned late last night from Ed Iman’s Fish Camp 2014, our annual event of guides, outdoor product reps, and media-type people (that would be me, LOL). As always, Ed and Pam Iman put on a great ev...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 10/7/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
WOW what a trip! Fished with my three sons at the mouth of the Deschutes river starting Friday through Sunday the 5th of October.
Friday was clear skies, no wind (yahoo) and 80 degrees. We caugh...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 4/22/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/22/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing over the past few days in the Upper end of the Columbia Gorge has turned fantastic over the past few days. We are seeing an absolute ton of fish moving over the dams. I had quick limits the pa...
By: swies
Posted: 9/12/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/10/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water above John Day @ 0700. 5 other boats out and I didn't see anything caught nor did I catch anything.
Was a good trip with my son and wife. Marked a few fish but could not get them to tak...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 9/19/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/10/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Another annual trip to fish the mouth of the Deschutes above The Dallas dam has come to a close. We met several fiends who also camped with us in the same park. What great times we had reliving the ...
