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10 - Hanford to Vernita Bridge Fishing Reports

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Posted: 9/17/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Hanford Reach september 15-17. We were marking a ton of fish and saw kings jumping everywhere you looked. Had alot of action back trolling herring on the downriggers 4-7' off the bottom in...
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Posted: 9/18/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
This is the picture that didn't end up on my previous report. Caught on blue size cut herring backtrolled in coyote rapids.
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By: medic1
Posted: 9/25/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hell of a day. The boat limited out, 3 guys 6 fish. Biggest was 35lbs. If anyone needs any help fishing the reach give the number on the boat a call. We also make custom rods, anything you want. ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/18/2010
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hi Guys The Hanford Reach area is producing some fish now . Took my daughter out , hooked on up 4 Kings using Superbaits . Photo of my daughter Jamie showing off her first catch of the day . ...
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Posted: 9/19/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the White Bluffs boat launch area. The fishing was hot! Got on a 8 fish day with the largest going just over 30. We also caught 2 Jacks to go along with the adults. Saw a lot of other fish cau...
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By: Jorgec
Posted: 10/3/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
A WOWWWW Day, I took my son and a friend to White Bluff, and we limit by 10 Am on Friday, 6 beautiful Chinook on Lemon lime green super bait, both regular and cut plug style were working ,filled with ...
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By: the thumb
Posted: 10/4/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
fished 12 hrs sat and 3 on sun morning. we ran a downrigger off each side of boat. had a double deep six diver out the middle. we used either brads super baits or a brads super cut plug bait. caug...
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By: Jorgec
Posted: 10/23/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We hit White Bluff closing day, and it was very good! We used the green and red super baits and got our limit in just two hours. Here is the picture of my friend and the biggest of the day.
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By: kevinbe
Posted: 3/27/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had a chance to go steelheading with my Uncle. We launched at Ringold. We got there at 10:00. Water level is pretty high You could barely pull through on land in the round about. There were 3 boats...
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By: the thumb
Posted: 9/26/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
started fishing sat in the afternoon till 600. Fished sun from 600am-300pm. I fished almost the whole time below the bridge. On sat I managed 1 jack and nothing on sunday. I didn't see all that ma...
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By: DannyP
Posted: 9/28/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
2 of us fished all day Monday, 12 hours resulting in 1 jack and 2 missed hook ups.. Were using superbait Hot Tamales, Jet Blue and several others. Saw a few small fish caught on the same gear. Fish...
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By: jdn127
Posted: 6/23/2013
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
fished the white bluffs area 6-21-13 from 5;30 am to about 11;30am. landed one 41inch fish. had a few more bites but no hook ups. new to sturgeon fishing and the Columbia river and seem to be having t...
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By: rojomojo
Posted: 7/19/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
First post for me- always get great info so I decided to contribute. Fished solo Thursday on the Columbia Reach. with in-line flashers and brad's superbait, drop with a 6 oz cannon ball. Switched ...
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By: kshorey
Posted: 9/21/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/20/2014
Hot Spots: 0
got to the fish hatchery around 7:20 from spokane, launched and ran upriver a ways. LOTS of boats, as we ran past the first large groups we saw at least 5-6 boats battling fish. got to my spot, sent ...
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Posted: 9/29/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I had a great day on the water with Kyle Jones. Hanford Reach is a great place to fish--not a waterfront house or other humanity to be seen other than some abandoned buildings....oh and a hundred or ...
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By: the thumb
Posted: 9/30/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from about 7am till 630pm. Had a 2 hour wait in the launch line. We fished above and below the bridge 1 bite for the whole day Water was moving fast and high. It was all the way up to the t...
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Posted: 9/6/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/6/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing Hanford Reach this time of year is considered early, but when Don Talbot invited the NWFR Team to go fish with him for some early action we jumped at the chance. Don told me that he had some s...
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Posted: 9/8/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
One more day fishing with Don Talbot. Today we had myself, Aaron, and Gringo Pescador in the boat. Having established an effective morning bite pattern on the river, Don took us back to his fast becom...
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Posted: 9/21/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/20/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well we left Moses Lake at 04:00 and got to White Bluffs only to wait in line for 1 1/2 hours to launch the boat. We fished with the other 100 plus boats and didn't get a single bite. The fish were th...
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Posted: 9/22/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/22/2015
Hot Spots: 0
We fished today downstream of Vernita Bridge. Fishing was good overall but we had to work for our fish. We ended with 4 nice chinook and released 2 steelhead. We started our day downstream trolling f...
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By: kshorey
Posted: 10/5/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I was fishing there Saturday and it was HOT, HOT, HOT in our boat at the start. I have gone every Saturday for the last 4 weeks and it was best this week. We launched at ringold and ran up to the fir...
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Posted: 10/9/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Many salmon fishermen gave up too early due to thw fact that their favorite fishing program wasn't very effective since the middle of September. The water temps have been over 63 all season. What ha...
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By: Jorgec
Posted: 10/19/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/17/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Great 2 days fishing with my 2 sons. 7 fishing total. All caught using eggs, Biggest one 39 in. Love end of season No lines.
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Posted: 2/20/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/21/2015
Hot Spots: 0
To cap off the 2015 Chinook season I took a guided trip at Hanford which I've been meaning to do for several years. We pounded the White Bluffs hole for eight hours to squeak out eight fish, two per ...
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Posted: 8/17/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
There are chinook to be caught on the Hanford reach! I was on the water at 5:00 this morning and had my super baits in the water shortly thereafter. It was shaping up to be another good morning on the...
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