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16 - Lake Pateros Fishing Reports
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By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 7/22/2018
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/20/2018
Hot Spots: 0
After returning from ICAST I was eager to fish the Brewster pool although a bit bummed to miss out on any opportunity for King Salmon. However, the willingness of Sockeye Salmon to take gear and they ...
Posted: 7/23/2018
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/23/2018
Hot Spots: 1
I know there has been lots of reports of great Sockeye fishing in Brewster. But Monday the 23rd and it just keeps going! We had 6 limits by 6:30 this morning. We are finding most fish 20 to 25ft down....
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 7/23/2018
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/22/2018
Hot Spots: 0
No disappointments from Brewster. Due to a three fish sockeye limit, I decided to gather up the whole family and head up to Lake Pateros. We have had health scares with both of my folks this year. I r...
By: Willy10
Posted: 7/29/2018
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/28/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Brewster pool and Chelan Falls, Thursday evening to Saturday morning. Got our limits of sockeye each day by by 730. Released 2 hatchery kings as well that were fun to fight amongst the boat...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 7/31/2018
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/28/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to write this report while I was devouring a smoked sockeye fillet along with some crackers. I got a chance to fish Friday night and Saturday with some friends. We started out the day Satur...
By: CaptainDavesGS
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 ...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 7/27/2020
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/24/2020
Hot Spots: 0
We continue to have phenomenal fishing in the Brewster Pool! Sockeye are biting like crazy and the king fishing is not too bad either! Trolling dodgers and shrimp spinners is the ticket for the sock...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 7/29/2020
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/29/2020
Hot Spots: 0
The Brewster pool continues to be very generous to us. I’m pretty excited to hear that the sockeye limit will be raised to four next week. Shrimp tipped spinners behind a Dodger is the staple here and...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 8/3/2020
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/3/2020
Hot Spots: 0
We fished August 1-5 in the Brewster Pool and the fishing was tremendous! Full boat sockeye limits every day for us and some great King fishing too! Coon shrimp dodgers for the sockeye trolled slow ...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 7/16/2021
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Brewster Sockeye/King Report:
We have been in the Pool for several weeks now. Sockeye fishing was epic this year, but was closed early by WDFW. Fishing was as easy as it gets with the amount of fis...
By: Conradlam
Posted: 7/22/2022
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/20/2022
Hot Spots: 0
A few friends and I went down for the annual Brewster sockeye derby. Better known as combat fishing, roller derby, figure eight racing, and the Indianapolis 500 rolled up into one.
We are all chasin...
By: Yakhusker
Posted: 7/22/2022
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/17/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great few days of sockeye fishing and it ended with our quickest limits yet on Sunday. The night before I got lucky and had a Chinook hook up at Chelan Falls and I was riding a high! It was my ...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 7/17/2020
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/17/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Living in Brewster I always look forward to the summer salmon season on the upper Columbia. A cool June and a quality snowpack has kept the Okanogan running cooler and dirtier later into the summer. T...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 7/23/2020
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2020
Hot Spots: 0
This past spring I ordered a new kayak and with Covid disruptions in work force and supply chain was cautioned it might take until the fall to receive my kayak. I am always willing to wait for good th...
Posted: 8/24/2019
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing the Brewster Pool is quite simple for me as I live really close and can get an early start and know the weather before I head out. Fortunately for me, I get to fish during the week so less pre...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 8/7/2022
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/1/2022
Hot Spots: 0
We just completed our 2022 Sockeye season and man it was a good one! We limited the boat every trip we did! We did two trips a day and I think within the last 4 weeks, we landed close to 1,000 socke...
Posted: 10/15/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/11/2018
Hot Spots: 0
So I really wanted to see if I could get another King or 2 from the Upper Columbia. I have a hard time believing there are no Kings in there. So I launched at the new launch at Bridgeport and baited u...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/17/2006
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/15/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Saturday the 15th. Got out on the water about 9 am, about 3 hours too late, and got skunked. Although the main run is not here yet there are fair catches of Chinook between 20-25 lbs, most bei...
By: afk
Posted: 6/7/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Tried it out below Chief Joe Dam. Trolled mostly, orange, black & white, perch and crawdad colorred Rapalas. I threw a jig with and without slip bobber tipped with worms & or shrimp. 1/2 dozen other ...
Posted: 8/19/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/13/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Plug cut herring with a 0 Dodger produced the Chinook. The Mack's Lures Double D dodger and pink mini Cha Cha baited with Pautzke Fire Cured shrimp caught the Sockeye. It should turn more and more t...
Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Super baits in Hot Lava, herring and shrimp baited red hooks scored for Andy today. Jim Anderson got the 24# hog. Another jack king and some sockeye rounded out their bag. Thanks to Wayne Worzella ...
By: rseas
Posted: 8/11/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Although somewhat planned we ended up with a welcome but rare free weekend. Not to let an opportunity pass we loaded truck, hitched up the boat and headed east. The plan was to camp in Bridgeport and ...
By: deltadog
Posted: 8/12/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Finally managed a small chinook to about 10 lbs. today on a Brads Cut Plug. I believe it was the shamrock pattern. Dark green to chrome with tuna and scent. Looked to be very slow today, with the guid...
By: allanwalker
Posted: 8/13/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for Friday 8-10 to Sunday 8-12. Fished the mouth of the okanogan and the brewster pool Friday evening Saturday 5 am till 1pm and Sunday from 6am till noon. only one Chinook caught 17....
Posted: 7/27/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Tangborn crew wanted to focus on Chinook so Andy and Jeff ran a plug cut herring off the downrigger for Chinook. Also hanging out on the Columbia side of the channel helped. Finally broke throug...
