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07 - The Dalles to McNary (Celilo/Umatilla) Fishing Reports
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/9/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Put in at Umatilla @8am trolled down stream on Wa. side with bottom walkers and nightcrawlers to the end of the island, nada, picked up and ran to Irrigon, fished outside edge of bar picked up one 16"...
Posted: 5/17/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out for a couple hours on Saturday, launched at davenport and went down towards china bend. The water level is really low, caught hung up and lost a prop in the Hcraft. Myself, my girlfriend’s ...
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: 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: tanner214
Posted: 5/20/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hey guys, just got back from crow butte. Had a pretty good trip, just a little early for the walleye to be on the bite but we did manage to get 4 pretty nice walleye an a few nice perch for the frying...
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: wishing4walleye
Posted: 6/30/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/27/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Thought I would finally give back to the website... Went to the butte all day on wednesday the 27th. good weather, light wind, hardly any people. 3 boxes of worms later... 1 walleye, a ton of perch...
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: 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: The Jigmiester
Posted: 5/12/2013
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I was able to make good on a promise to Take my good friend Jim Arvidson of Grandview out walleye and smallmouth bass fishing up in the Crow Butte/Alderdale section of the Columbia River this weekend....
By: walleyewillie
Posted: 3/11/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
We fished out of Rufus Oregon caught 25 walleye and released lots of females full of eggs. Got some nice Fish trolling smile blades and also got some on jigs.Fished between 20 to 30 ft lots of fish an...
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: walleyewillie
Posted: 5/16/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Another great day on the Columbia River, we caught lots of Walleye and Bass even got some Sturgeon to bite.
Most fish were caught on smile blades lots of colors were working this week. We did some bl...
By: rojomojo
Posted: 5/26/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Made it out earlier in the morning, it's definitely an early bite. Dad brought in a 4 lb walleye within the first 5 minutes. Bite continued to be well on silver smiley blades and green/red spoons. Fin...
By: walleyewillie
Posted: 6/14/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished out of Rufus Oregon, we did get some wind today but did not hurt the bite which was off and on throughout the day. Most fish caught on Smile blades and wedding rings today, silver and green wor...
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: 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: Goldrigger1
Posted: 10/11/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/8/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Thought I'd let people know about walleye fishing on Lake Celilo this fall. First I read Ed Iman on the shad run and how it affects the walleye. Ed says he won't fish for walleye during August and Se...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 2/6/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Winter pre-spawn walleye fishing is going strong in Eastern Washington! We fished the John Day Pool on Saturday and got into lots of 18-20 inch eater sized walleyes, as well as a few bigger 4 lb fish....
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 5/31/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
After a long Spring Salmon season, I was eager to get my clients out for some of the hot walleye action that is taking place on the Columbia! With the temperature climbing on Monday, I took my group o...
By: tricities-sean
Posted: 6/1/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Very windy day made it tough going. Had to use the big motor, electric troller at full power couldn't move the boat! Pulled worm harnesses, any color worked....near Crow Butte State Park
Posted: 6/4/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/3/2017
Hot Spots: 1
I've been wanting to give Columbia River Walleye another shot for quite a while. Between business, chasing salmon and steelhead, time has been tight. I do love these fish, and today their pursuit brou...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 6/6/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/6/2017
Hot Spots: 0
The past few days we have switched back into Walleye mode on the Columbia River and the fishing did not disappoint! We are still seeing great catches of Walleye and expect the fishing to remain good ...
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...
