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20 - Upper Columbia River to Canadian Border Fishing Reports
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Posted: 6/7/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/6/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Friday night and Sat. morning. Caught limits of Walleye both nights. Battled the wind Saturday, so we really had to work for them. Size was the biggest issue between Friday and sat. We had m...
By: chinookslammer
Posted: 6/14/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My dad and I launched at Marcus Island campgrounds at 10 a.m. saturday. Got off to a later start than we planned. Caught the first walleye about 5 minutes after we started trolling a bottom walker rig...
By: shirt
Posted: 7/13/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/12/2009
Hot Spots: 0
The wife & I started at Marcus Island late, 10:30 am, ended up at area above bridge, caught 5 fish 12-18 inches by 2:30, lots of fish on fish-finder but seemed pretty picky! we used the same gear & w...
By: moosezema
Posted: 7/5/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Been catching alot of small walleyes, but finally hooked into one that was worth a picture a seven pounder. Water is high and fishing areas are changing daily. Hunt and find where and what they want...
By: CCTMark
Posted: 7/16/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Launched out of and fished the China Bend area on Sunday. Went up river and found a couple of nice back eddies. My buddy Glenn had lots of luck using a walking sinker and night crawler setup. We took ...
By: allanwalker
Posted: 7/16/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Target Species: Walleye/rainbow
§ Lake or River Fished: Lake Roosevelt
§ Date(s) Fished: July 9 – 12
Weather Conditions: a week of blue sky light winds and lots of sun
§ Wind: light non...
By: Mcfisherson13
Posted: 7/2/2013
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/28/2013
Hot Spots: 0
We fished the Governors Cup and had a really good time, learned a lot for next time, if there is a next time. We were quite disapointed with some of the other contestents concerning the tournament...
By: the ripper
Posted: 10/11/2013
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
wow ! Night fishing for walleye is hot right now on the upper columbia. caught 5 18 to 16 inchers in an hour or so from shore throwing perch shad raps.Also hooked some with shad style jigs tippe...
By: Walleye Chief
Posted: 5/16/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/15/2017
Hot Spots: 0
We launched at Kettle Falls and headed about 5 miles Northeast of the Bridge. My first cast produced a nice wally around 22 inches and then my buddy Tom caught this monster on his second or third cas...
By: Lambojac
Posted: 5/18/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/17/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Shore fishing at the mouth of the Kettle River has not been good so far. Over the last few weeks we've caught only 1 Burbot, 1 Walleye, and 2 Whitefish. Yesterday afternoon didn't produce a single bit...
By: Lambojac
Posted: 5/24/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Since the mouth of the Kettle River is still rushing too fast, I decided to try at the mouth of the Colville for some shore fishing. I'd heard that people had been catching Pike and Walleye up above t...
By: Lambojac
Posted: 6/19/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/17/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on the shoreline at about 10AM between Daisy and Gifford. Threw out a hook and worm and let them sit for about an hour on the bottom with no luck. I switched one pole over to a jig and grub wi...
By: wire3714
Posted: 7/15/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/15/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished out of Daisy with my son. Boarded 5 small ones and 1 at 9lbs
Posted: 6/10/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/10/2019
Hot Spots: 0
These guys did an excellent job of fishing for Walleye today. This was their first time jigging for Walleye. We launched from Kettle falls and traveled about seven miles North. The Walleye hit on all...
Posted: 6/21/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/14/2019
Hot Spots: 0
This fishing family did an excellent job catching Walleye for their first time on Lake Roosevelt. They were jigging from depths of 45'-65' deep just North of Kettle Falls. These Walleye were caught ri...
By: Lambojac
Posted: 5/10/2020
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/8/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Got out to the mouth of the Kettle River with my 1 year old boy to try and catch some fish now that it is "legal"...
I tried fishing on Tuesday, which was "opening day" according to supreme leader...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 9/1/2020
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/22/2020
Hot Spots: 1
This is kind of a delayed report, as well as I have had trouble finding the area within NWFR, to report on the Kettle Falls portion of Lake Roosevelt. The website has become too large, and not nearly...
By: nwbhoss
Posted: 5/29/2021
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Starting to get a handle on these Walleye. I spent the weekend at my buddies place in Gifford and only fished a couple hours 2 days. I was looking at property the rest of the time and put in an offer ...
By: Walleyemark1
Posted: 8/21/2021
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/21/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Jigged and trolled the Arm with Jay. Caught 35 but only had 3 nice 19 inchers in the live well. Not enough to make cleaning them worthwhile. So back they went. Jay did catch and release a nice 24 inch...
Posted: 9/7/2019
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/6/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Awesome day of fishing Sturgeon. The younger generation did an outstanding job landing fish. These guys caught a total of 7 fish and 2 keeper Sturgeon. They broke two records by the youngsters on our ...
By: Conradlam
Posted: 7/17/2022
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/15/2022
Hot Spots: 0
A 3 AM start with my friend out of Deer Park, headed north to fish for giant behemoths. Started early in the morning Fishing in 60 feet of water. We moved around several times and finally found a hol...
By: YJ Guide Service
Posted: 7/2/2017
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/27/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Well we fished the last 5 days up by kettle falls and had days that were well above average and days that were slow. We had several days with catch rates in the teens with 19 fish caught and 30 fish o...
By: robholman
Posted: 7/30/2017
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/29/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Finished up my keeper sturgeon season with guide Shane Reynolds of Northwest Fishing Expeditions. We had a tremendous day with 14-15 fish to the boat including a couple of oversized. One was a huge 9-...
By: Luisljr085
Posted: 7/10/2018
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing around 5am on Sat hooked 1st one around 5:45am was about 45 in and had a few bites after then around noon hooked my keeper at 57in and called it a day. Next morning started again at 5a...
By: Pat Perez
Posted: 7/12/2010
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Great weekend of fishing on the Columbia River at Brewster. Limited out on Sockeye on Saturday, and again by 10:00 AM on Sunday. After limiting out we went for Kings, and I caught my largest Chinook. ...
