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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...
Posted: 4/16/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got this pair on the I-5- 205 troll..had 2 others to the boat on 4 passes..hope we get another crack at them this year.
By: SportRadical
Posted: 6/19/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the columbia to try and learn how to plunk. Had several takes, but missed alot because I had to strong of line on my dropper at first. After I switched to 4lb test dropper I was able to break the ...
By: Craig Ducharme
Posted: 3/31/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Worked above the I5 bridge two days, used fish flash, 6oz. dropper, chartruse dyed, salt brined herring. No fish! Talked to many including guides, lots of boats caught no fish. Derby day fly over c...
By: Craig Ducharme
Posted: 4/3/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/3/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Friends are down on the river as I write this, last two days they boated 5 fish, trolling herring, fish flash green and lime green. The fish are in and moving up. Pictures forth coming with tomorrows...
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: RIBOwner
Posted: 4/11/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well the Army Engineers decided to release more water this morning. Too much flow to even troll, and forget about anchoring. Spoke with the Washington F&W and only two fish were checked in.
Aft...
By: rseas
Posted: 4/16/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
In trying to bring home a spring Chinook we fished the following rigs; one green fish flash with cut-plug herring, the second a lime green fish flash with cut-plug herring and the third rig was a stra...
By: Nelly1
Posted: 4/22/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 6am till 4pm with about 200+ boats. Launched at Portco and fished from the i205 bridge to the I-5, trolling a cut plug herring, and a fish flash with a cut plug, on the bottom with no succ...
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: salmonbarry
Posted: 3/9/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Okay, I know this is a year old but had to post this as we are going out again tomorrow to try our luck on the Columbia for some early Springer action. We were on Ron's boat from a guide service and ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/23/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
wow slow start in morning not single fish must been three hundred boats and that know joke.then 9am boat front me gets one and land it small fish. then two min later bam rod gos nuts fish on put up go...
By: salmonbarry
Posted: 3/27/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I am now 0 for 2 on springers but you can't catch 'em if your aren't fishing for 'em! Met the boys at the Red Lion at the Quay boat ramp at 7am and was met with a stiff south wind in our faces. We s...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 4/2/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/31/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Report Date 4/2/14
This past week we spent some time on the Lower Columbia targeting Spring Chinook in the I5 Bridge area. We primarily trolled herring and Fish Flash flashers by Yakima Bait Company...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/22/2007
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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
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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: 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: 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...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/21/2008
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Another day on the Columbia for Springers. We had one take down and had one on and lost it. I forgot to set the hook. Otherwise a cold morning. I hope tomorrow's weather will be better.
Tight l...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/21/2008
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/20/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well went on on the final day of Spring Chinook season on the Columbia. We saw some fish caught and we were able to land two one 23 pound hen and one 12-15 native and was quickly released. Had to ca...
