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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam Fishing Reports
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By: Fisherman_max
Posted: 7/5/2008
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
collective report from two outings.
fishing the columbia river right below the I-5 bridge in my boat for sturgeon. we used sandshrimp and shad with the sandshrimp getting all the action. we have ...
By: RIBOwner
Posted: 4/4/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well it is that time of year again to fish the "Big C". Was able to boat one springer. It wasn't more than 5 minutes until we had a take down. Weather was o.k. but cold. It is still very early in ...
By: RIBOwner
Posted: 4/10/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My friend and I fished for a couple hours after work and no luck. Very few boats out that evening. Spoke to a few guys are the ramp who had fish, but worked all day to get them. Few more days left...
By: Ganno
Posted: 6/5/2013
Species: Shad
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Great day on the Columbia lots of bites once we located a lane that the fish were using .Fishing by Camas in thirteen feet of water with a small Dick Nite white with red head . The bite was fast and f...
By: crankbait42
Posted: 7/19/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/19/2009
Hot Spots: 0
my grandpa my uncle and i went out on the columbia today. We got on the water at about 3:30 and started fishing at about 5. it started slow but soon started to pick up we had a couple strikes and the ...
By: fish-huntr
Posted: 5/27/2015
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/22/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went out fishing in the new Grady White , had to test it out for a bit. but I knew I had to get our lines wet, so with some searching, found about a 80ft hole west of Hayden island. CATCH AND RELEASE....
By: drhookem99
Posted: 9/17/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/10/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished all day Saturday and half day on Sunday on the waters around Camas. We jigged, pulled spinners, crank baits and fished blade baits. Only managed 6 smallmouth and 2 pike minnows. Fished 35 ft ...
By: tyee4me
Posted: 3/27/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/26/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We stayed at Red Lion Inn at on the River Jantzen Beach. This is a great location Our guide picked us up at the Hotel Dock which was 150ft from our room. We started to fish at 7am fishing next to I-5...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 3/28/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/28/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing is really starting to pick up down here in the Portland area for Spring Chinook. A fellow guide buddy and I snuck out for a little fun fishing this morning and we're handsomely rewarded with a...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 4/6/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We had another fantastic day on the Columbia River out of Portland today. I had 3 great customers and we managed to pick up 4 chrome spring chinook and we ended our day with a boat limit. We are still...
By: brianmonticello
Posted: 6/24/2021
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/24/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Drove down to the dam from Seattle, and boy was it worth it! Fish almost every single cast. I decided to film a little challenge where I put the Shad dart up against a crappie jig to see which could c...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 5/21/2021
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/20/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Only 2000 to 3000 shad going over the dam daily but thought I'd give it a shot. Fishing started out slow in the morning with low flows but got better as the current picked up later in the day. By 1 PM...
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 5/27/2014
Species: Shad
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I know its a little early in the shad run, but I went anyways hoping to catch between 10-15 shad. Got there early for the morning bite around 7am. Got one after a dozen or so casts and snags. i though...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 3/29/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/29/2015
Hot Spots: 0
We spent yesterday getting the boat and slip all set to go, and took a few passes to make sure the boat and gear were ready to go. Today was our first full day chasing spring chinook for the season a...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 4/6/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/5/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing for me has been very good over the past week in the Portland area around Interstate 5. I have had boat limits or near limits every day for the past week. This upcoming week should continue t...
By: BARCHASER10
Posted: 4/25/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/22/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Yeah I know the C is closed for Springers. We fished the Willamette. I posted this as a C report since if I posted as a Willy report it would go under Oregon not Washington.
Fished Wed, Thurs and...
By: dzfish
Posted: 6/11/2013
Species: Shad
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Three buddies of mine from work ( Mr KAZ, He who fishes well, and He who sits a lot ) took a trip down to the bonneville dam to try and hook up with some shad. We left at 02:30 am from the house and a...
By: HULI_ISDA
Posted: 6/8/2013
Species: Shad
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well first time fishing the dam a friend tag me along with and it was a blast this fish can fight with ultra light tavle using sad jigs. Started the long drive from edmonds last night at 11pm got ther...
By: ckim85
Posted: 6/17/2009
Species: Shad
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Took a 2 day camping trip out to Columbia River over at Beacon Rock state park. Scenery is absolutely gorgeous and we had a lot of fun camping.
We hit up right by the Bonneville Dam from the shore ...
By: Fisherman_max
Posted: 5/19/2008
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Here are the pictures to go along with my last report.
By: Pat Campbell
Posted: 5/17/2007
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/17/2007
Hot Spots: 0
As the shad numbers are going up, we thought we might be able to catch one or two just below Bonneville Dam. Instead we caught one after another with some being good size. My son released one small ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/17/2008
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Rating: 3
Fished: 2/16/2008
Hot Spots: 0
First trip of the year on the "Big C"! My buddy Grant and I did a little sturgeon fishing this morning. Weather was 35 and foggy. Water temperature was 38.8 degrees at the surface. Overall a good ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/22/2007
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/21/2007
Hot Spots: 0
With the Chinook Salmon season closed on the Columbia, and the Coho's are not in on my favorite river. I decided on doing some Sturgeon fishing while the season is still open. I brought along my fri...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/22/2007
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/19/2007
Hot Spots: 0
On Friday my friend Grant and I decided to try some sturgeon fishing. With a break in the weather that day we ventured out in the morning. There were whitecaps on the Columbia and the wind was blowi...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/15/2008
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Did the spring fever rush on the Columbia this morning. About 5 minutes into our run we had a take down. Unfortunately we lost the fish at the motor. After so jockeying around about a half hour lat...
