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By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 10/4/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, what another awesome day on the river. The weather down on the Columbia River has been incredible. It wasn't until I arrived in Spokane that I realized fall is upon us. It still feels like summ...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 3/17/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Rosevelt Rainbows
I fished for bows the last two days below Lincoln and had great success. We fished sandy flats 20-35' down on the rigger with trolling flies and no dodgers. Fished 1.7 mph which i...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 9/29/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/27/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Productive is not the word I would use to describe the overall catching down here at Virnita bridge. During a typical year it is not uncommon to watch a couple dozen fish get landed during the mornin...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 1/23/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/22/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I am sure glad we didn't listen to the weather man and decided to fish Keller in spite of a gloomy forecast. The quality of Lake Roosevelt's Kokanee is hard to overlook. Andrew and Ron heartily agr...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 12/27/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/27/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Roosevelt proved to be a wonderful host to my guests once again. The lake was almost flat calm the entire day, and the bows were quite eager to bite our offerings. Today we crisscrossed the lake ...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 5/20/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/18/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, what a fun trip. The bigger males seem to have shown up in force and were quite willing to bite. We trolled em, jigged em and threw plugs at em all with good results. The walleye were very cooper...
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: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 7/12/2015
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Guides have slow days too! They just don't usually talk about it.
We got a little rain yesterday in Brewster. Not much, but enough to cool the water temp down 4 degrees. I was concerned this would ...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 2/26/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/24/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Some buddies and I decided to fish Keller on Wednesday and I am glad we did, because the weather was beautiful. The water was flat calm most of the day which made spotting rising kokes quite easy. Thi...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 5/5/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/5/2016
Hot Spots: 0
WOW. There is only one reason I make a daily 2 hour drive to fish Roosevelt. These fish are awesome and are getting feistier every day. Thanks to this years bumper crop of jumbo kokanee, my guests ar...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 7/11/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/8/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I had fun this weekend chasing Chinook. This time of year I focus on waters between Priest Rapids and Chief Joseph Dams. I had guests both am and pm and had good success all weekend. We retained 10 ke...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 9/5/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/3/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I fished White Bluffs on Tuesday. I know it’s a little early, but I was really hopeful we would tag a few. I did mark a few salmon on the fish finder, but couldn’t force one to bite. The water was 67 ...
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: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 7/6/2015
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/5/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I spent the weekend fishing guests at Brewster,WA for sockeye and Chinook salmon. All I can say is we weren't fishing, we were catching. Since July 1st we have landed 104 sockeye and 13 Chinook salmon...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 9/3/2018
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/2/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I managed to sneak away with the family to Loon Lake before I head down to Guide chinook trips on the Columbia. I got a new boat this year I have been spending a lot of time getting it rigged jus...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 4/29/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I had the pleasure of fishing with two great crews today. Kokanee limits came rather quickly, but rainbows continue to be harder to come by.
I finally found some coho killers at the White Elephant ...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 5/24/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/24/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Seeing the sun today was nice. My last trip was Wednesday last week in the wind and rain storm. From the plateau above the river I could see the storm was concentrated right above Spring Canyon... ri...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 11/22/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/21/2019
Hot Spots: 0
What a beautiful place. Yesterday we got to watch elk, deer, turkeys, geese, ducks and eagles while fishing the Porcupine area. Tom an I fished leaded lines on a planer board, and 3 colors out the ba...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 8/22/2016
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I had the privilege Friday of introducing my guest to Lake Roosevelt, its beautiful scenery, and its wonderful fish. We spent most of the day looking for some prized Kokanee. During this process we ca...
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: 1/12/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/10/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Good to be fishing in good weather with good friends for quality fish. The size and quality of these kokanee made me upgrade my rating to a 4. We launched at Keller at dawn and fished for an hour befo...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 5/31/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/31/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I fished with guests on both Saturday and today.
Saturday things started out with a bang. We made our way around the back of a bay and hooked up on a triple. We managed to land two of these beauti...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 3/31/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, what a day.
I had a great crew from Seattle fish with me yesterday and I spoiled them pretty good. Well ok, the fish spoiled us pretty good. We set our 5 rods and started our morning troll. ...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 1/1/2020
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/30/2019
Hot Spots: 0
We launched at Porcupine Bay about 7:30. Fortunately the road and ramp conditions were perfect making for an uneventful commute. After jigging for 2 hour with limited success, we switched guns and sta...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 6/30/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 0
Fished: 6/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to post this report under "secret" in preparation for some of my Columbia River Salmon Reports. All my salmon fishing will take place between White Bluffs and Brewster, but in some cases I h...
