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07 - The Dalles to McNary (Celilo/Umatilla) Fishing Reports
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By: downriggeral
Posted: 9/18/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/15/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the 5th through the 15th for King salmon at the mouth of the Deschutes on the Columbia. We found the fishery to be a mixed bag of success for us trollers. We fished a variety of Brads S...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 9/15/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/11/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I made the mistake of buying a house in the middle of our usual annual salmon trip to the mouth of the Deschutes on the Columbia. I canceled the two week reservation at the park and tended to detail...
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: 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: 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 ...
By: NDwalleyehunter
Posted: 6/23/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/21/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished with Rising Sun !!!!!!!!! WHAT A GREAT TIME !!!!!!!! Wind was tuff in AM but great boat work by JM kept us on the walleye while others were looking for shelter. I am being conservative when ...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 6/29/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/28/2017
Hot Spots: 0
It seems like all my reports are the same lately!!!! Well, I guess they are! The walleye bite is phenomenal and we are averaging 30-50 fish a day! I am fishing below McNary Dam in the John Day Pool...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 7/8/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/7/2017
Hot Spots: 0
The Columbia River Walleye bite just continues to be awesome this year! My group yesterday had their boat limits by 10 am and was able to be off the water before the heat started to hurt. The curre...
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: Asianju
Posted: 8/6/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/5/2017
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy and I decided to target some walleye at boardman. Launched at crow butte state park and made the 10 mile trek up to boardman. Used chartreuse beads and smile blades and nabbed 9 walleye with ...
By: Asianju
Posted: 6/20/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at crow butte around 7:30am. Made the trek across the river to boardman and lines in the water at 8am. Didn't catch my first walleye until 10am. Plenty of boats around and the fishing was tou...
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: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/25/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Aaron and I got to fish with "Walleye Willie" while at fish camp. Target was of course - walleye. We trolled bottom bouncers in 16-25 ft of water over various humps Willie fishes. It was a tough bite ...
By: walleyewillie
Posted: 3/17/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was great once again on the Columbia river this week.We fished several days and had great sucsess on smile blade jigs and sonic blades.We also did very well on smile blades trolled in 20 to 30...
By: walleyewillie
Posted: 3/31/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/29/2014
Hot Spots: 0
We fished at Rufus again fishing was good with a bite or two here and there throughtout the day we did our best on smile blades in various colors and blade baits.the best depths were 20 to 25 ft .
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By: tanner214
Posted: 5/30/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hey guys, went down to crow butte friday. Tried to catch some more walleye but it was pretty slow. When we got there the water temp was 64 in the next 2 hours the water level came up about a foot and ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/1/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/27/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Irrigon area from June 27-29 bottom-bouncing for walleye. Just got in the water and "wham", fish on. Pulled in a really nice walleye, turned out to be the big fish of the trip. Thought we were g...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/25/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I went fishing below John Day dam. The wind was blowing about 30 mph but our guide was able to put us on to some fish, in spit of the conditions. The wind surfers were out full force. There were 4 cli...
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: Anonymous
Posted: 3/25/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went below John Day with a buddy to see if we could find some walleyes, Spent most of the day locating them and getting them to bite, What a beautiful day sunny and a light breeze, Finally located som...
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: Rising Son GS
Posted: 5/16/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/14/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Walleye fishing continues to be phenomenal on the Columbia River! I am fishing the John Day pool and getting solid action every day! Jigging and trolling worm harnesses has been the go to method for...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 6/13/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/11/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Munden's Rising Son Adventures was able to fish Sunday in the Umitilla/Irrigon area of the John day Pool. We were downstream trolling bottom walkers/worm harnesses for walleyes. The fishing is pheno...
By: Eyetri2
Posted: 5/21/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/20/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at Crow Butte around 8:30. Half a dozen boats working an area to the east of the launch for walleye. We spent an hour tossing gear to the shore for bass. One keeper and one dink. Went across ...
By: Fallen Outdoors
Posted: 3/31/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/31/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We started the morning launching at Maryhill State Park. The morning was slow we where seeing the guys jigging catch a fish here and there but no one was catching on the troll on the peach beach side ...
