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16 - Lake Pateros Fishing Reports

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Posted: 9/8/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/6/2017
Hot Spots: 0
After striking out on two days fishing the Columbia River Gorge for Kings I decided to give the Brewster pool one last shot. I dropped the kayak in the Okanogan. Water temps at the mouth of the river ...
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Posted: 7/18/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/18/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was bad . Saw a few caught . Landed 1 sockeye. To bad it's closed. This is more of a curiosity report . There was a lost or abandoned cat that keep going on the dock and trying to get in peop...
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Posted: 7/13/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/6/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Had a chance to get away and fish for some Chinook salmon up at Brewster, caught 3 Sockeye and the biggest Chinook I ever caught so far in fresh water. The Chinook hit like a freight train and took dr...
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Posted: 7/6/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/5/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This is really a summary of the last three days of fishing. I recently moved to Brewster and have been taking advantage of the salmon fishery on my doorstep. I have several years experience trolling f...
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Posted: 9/1/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/31/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Hey had a chance to get out and do some Chinook fishing up at Brewster with one of my good friends Jimmy ( Bad to the Bone ) Kearney, picked me up at my house 2:30 am, Jimmy asks me do you have a ext...
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Posted: 8/5/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
After my parents dropped several hints I finally realized they wanted to get in on some summer salmon action, and yesterday we found some time to make it happen. It was evident right away that the "Br...
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Posted: 8/1/2016
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Gave Brewster a shot and it was a waste of time, we had a bite for about 5 seconds and that was it the whole weekend. There were some boats catching fish here and there but not like the last few years...
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Posted: 7/29/2016
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Today we had a fabulous day of Sockeye fishing in the Brewster Pool. Our day started off targeting Summer Chinook. The chinook bite was decent, but went dead early. We were 2-4 on chinook In just abou...
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Posted: 7/19/2016
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This was our second weekend fishing the Brewster pool. Last week we worked hard for two days and caught 2 fish. This weekend, worked just as hard, trying different depths, different presentations , d...
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By: Asianju
Posted: 7/13/2016
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/10/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Took my vacation week after hearing good reports about the Brewster pool when wdfw opened up the upper Columbia last week. I prepped the boat and loaded up the camper and arrived Sunday afternoon and ...
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By: afk
Posted: 7/13/2016
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/12/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Brewster continues to be a challenge. The limit could be 6 and it wouldn't matter. Fish are not biting. There were approx. 80 boats trying. We put in a long day and came away with 2 fish. Some guides ...
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By: kshorey
Posted: 7/9/2016
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
ished the evening of thee 7th and the morning of the 8th with my uncle out of Brewster. The 7th we managed to get 5/6 fish in 3 ish hours from 630 on, fishing pink hoochies behind a dodger. the 8...
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By: Tonto
Posted: 7/8/2016
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/8/2016
Hot Spots: 0
My son, girlfriend and good fishing partner decided to try our luck for some sockeye. Loaded up and was on the road at 3am. Arrived at Brewster at 430 and was fishing shortly after 5. Got one out of t...
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By: Krapmit
Posted: 1/25/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/24/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Well, I've been wanting to target steelhead in lake pateros for a couple years now and with the west side rivers blown out this weekend, I decided to make the trip. With the methow closed and only be...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/9/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Caught and released 4 wild fish lost 4 fish at the back of the boat kept 1 hatchery fish 19" football that most likely came from Rufus woods. Trolling at Wells dam using chartuse and green colored fst...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/8/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled for around the floating barrier at Wells dam. We used spoons exclusively 10-15 ft down on the downrigger kept 4, lost 2 at back of boat and released a wild fish. Most were caught with fst l...
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Posted: 10/28/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Day Two of our Wells Pool steelheading adventure with Shane Magnusen of Upper Columbia Guide Service. After a relaxing stay at the Lake Pateros Motor Lodge we loaded up and met Shane for a leisurely m...
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Posted: 10/26/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
As the memories of chinook fishing fade away it’s time to change gears and with winter approaching that means steelheading time. Shane Magnusen of Upper Columbia Guide Service invited Aaron and I to g...
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Posted: 7/28/2015
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Sockeye Season Summary I was sad to see the sockeye season close early this year, but alas all good things must come to an end. We fished 21 of the 26 day season, and had beautiful weather all but ...
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Posted: 7/28/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Brewster on Saturday the 25 and fished for Sockeye. Caught only 1 fish. Went out on Sunday the 26th ( the last legal day to fish for sockeye) and caught 6 sockeye but only landed 3 fish. We tr...
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By: widebear
Posted: 7/24/2015
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
My son and a couple of his buddies headed to Brewster this morning. poles in the water at sunrise and fished till noon. Had one king on and that was it. No sockeye but they hit their limits of Kokanee...
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Posted: 7/20/2015
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Greetings from Captain Dave's guide service. I am reporting to you from the Brewster pool where I have fished 16 of the last 19 days. In those 16 days we have landed 30 chinook and 398 sockeye salmon....
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By: K-Los
Posted: 7/19/2015
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
New to this forum but have been lurking for a month or two as I've just started getting back out on the water. Never fished Brewster before and it was all the mad-house of boats it was advertised to b...
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By: yjay
Posted: 7/19/2015
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/17/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Brewster pool on Friday. Not as hot as it was last week but still managed limits. Definitely not for the faint of heart. A bazillion boats. Parking is tough to find. Most people I spoke to ...
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Posted: 7/14/2015
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/13/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Sockeye fishing in the Brewster Pool continues to be absolutely fantastic. Boat limits for us have been the norm and most of those limits are coming before noon. Even though there are a ton of fish t...
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