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11 - Vernita Bridge to Priest Rapids Dam Fishing Reports
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By: 1cast
Posted: 9/18/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the King Hole in 50 ft of water about 40 ft down. Some fish were being caught after sunup. We stayed out because we did'nt get one early. Bite was slow after 10 am. We kept after it and finall...
By: DannyP
Posted: 9/19/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished 1.5 hours Friday night, 12 hours Sat and 3 hours Sunday. A lot of boats on the water, saw only a dozen fish caught all weekend. Water level way down over the weekend. Fish/Wildlife was ther...
By: Rivercamp72
Posted: 9/16/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water about 0700. Motored up to Moran creek area and got the gear in the water. My son was wih me and a fish was on within ten minutes, but lost it... As the sun got higher the hopes co...
By: jbball50
Posted: 9/20/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
My dad, my friend, and I got out on the water early launching while it was dark still. Once we got up into the hole we were going to fish it was daylight and my dad and I fished off the downriggers w...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/10/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Wife and I fished all day on the 9th and 10th at the King hole, hatchery hole and several other locations. On Sunday we boated 2 small kings and 1 jack with 2 missed. Today we hooked a 13lb king at ...
By: Rivercamp72
Posted: 8/11/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My wife and I finally got out this year to get some fishing in. Motored up to hatchery creek and was trolling in 19-22' of water on the west side of the river. Using down riggers, Brad's Baits cut p...
By: HDFat1
Posted: 9/15/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/13/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Weather was nice, sweatshirt and shorts, line not too long to launch. Went towards Priest Rapids Dam about 1/4 and trolled using Super Baits. Missed first one about 0800, hooked 2nd one about 830, 3...
By: rickcrit
Posted: 10/4/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Left Spokane around 3:30am arrived at Vernita Bridge around 6 long line at main launch so went over to other launch only 3 people in line.. In the water and gear in water with in 15min fish on right ...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 10/31/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry about the late report. I had some minor, or not so minor, skin surgery just below my eyelid. They ended up having to do reconstructive surgery and a skin graft. Are we having fun yet? Thankf...
By: Aaron
Posted: 9/9/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/5/2015
Hot Spots: 0
We spent Sep 5th, 6th and 7th with guide Don Talbot targeting the Chinook in the Hanford Reach area of the Columbia.
On all 3 days we spent our early mornings below the Priest Rapids dam trolling ...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 9/11/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
WOW! What a fun day yesterday down at Vernita. The weather was awesome and so was the fishing. I love the scenery down there this time of year. We had fun seeing 6 coyotes on the way up the river. F...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 9/13/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/13/2015
Hot Spots: 0
It is game on down at Vernita bridge. We had another fun day today on the water with lots of action. Unfortunately we lost a lot of fish which resulted in landing eight of the 16 we hooked. Oh well, s...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 9/20/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well my last two days down at Vernita bridge is nothing to brag about, but still worthy of a report.
The water levels are lower than normal for this time year. Making launching a little sketchy th...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 9/30/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for Captain Daves Guide Service. He asked me to post it for him as he is fishing the Vernita area and was unable to log on.
(Dave) I am having a great time down here on the Columbia...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 10/4/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, what another awesome day on the river. The weather down on the Columbia River has been incredible. It wasn't until I arrived in Spokane that I realized fall is upon us. It still feels like summ...
Posted: 10/7/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/6/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Vernita Bridge fishing for salmon with Dons Fishing Service Tuesday . We started out early before sun up and were fishing by 6:30, had our first one by 6:35 nice 12 pounder. Our next one was a...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 9/16/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Well I am off to a pretty good start to the 2016 fall salmon season down here at Virnita bridge. Fishing is a little slower than I would like, but we are catching some really nice fish right now. Our ...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 9/29/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/27/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Productive is not the word I would use to describe the overall catching down here at Virnita bridge. During a typical year it is not uncommon to watch a couple dozen fish get landed during the mornin...
By: kokocrazy83
Posted: 10/11/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/6/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at the launch at Vernita at 6:50 am and only waited several minutes before we were able to launch our boat and start fishing. There were probably 30 boats in the King Hole and we decided to he...
By: kokocrazy83
Posted: 9/15/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We arrived at the launch at Vernita at 6:30 and we were on the water fishing by 7:00. We ran 2 poles with 11 inch pro troll flashers and 3 foot leader to a hot tamale and Seahawk super bait. We stuff...
By: kokocrazy83
Posted: 9/29/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/28/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I fished with my boys and brothers at Vernita on Friday. We Started 645 and left around 2pm. The fishing was good especially in the morning . We ended up with 4 adults and one jack. One adult shy of o...
By: callplatinum
Posted: 10/7/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/6/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry. This may not be a real 5 star rating. But in my personal world it was indeed a 5 start day.
After a successful trip Wednesday I was able to convince my wife to coming Saturday. We got our a...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 10/2/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/30/2019
Hot Spots: 0
The Reach was pretty cooperative last week. The water temps have quickly dropped below 60 and the fish seem to be getting more aggressive. I’ve been using superbaits and roe to entice our bites. It’s ...
By: kokocrazy83
Posted: 10/13/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/9/2020
Hot Spots: 0
I fished near Vernita Bridge with my boys and a buddy on Friday. We downstream trolled mostly but did spend some time trolling upstream. We ran Super baits behind Shortbus 11inch 360 flashers and I al...
By: wellcraft24
Posted: 7/10/2021
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/10/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Fished above Vernita bridge July 10th. Slow death hooks, bottom bouncers and night crawlers. Had quite a few bites, hard to hook that day for some reason. Lots of sockeye in the river then and many ov...
