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Posted: 3/13/2020
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/13/2020
Hot Spots: 0
We fished the Biggs junction area today on the Columbia river. The Walleye bite was a little hit and miss. We fished for about 4 hours and picked up 6 nice fish. We started pulling crankbaits with no ...
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Posted: 9/27/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/27/2019
Hot Spots: 0
We have been fishing the past couple days with great success and early limits for 4 people. We have caught fish multiple ways. Downstream trolling superbait and spinners has been very good. Chrome and...
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Posted: 9/3/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/1/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Well as suspected the king bite in the Columbia gorge went crazy this weekend with the numbers climbing over Bonneville dam. We fished through the weekend with lots of hookups and quick morning limits...
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Posted: 8/27/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/27/2019
Hot Spots: 1
We fished today right below Bonneville dam. It was s consistent morning averaging a bite an hour yielding a limit of nice kings for my customers. We trolled using pro troll flashers and 3.5 spinners. ...
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Posted: 8/20/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/18/2019
Hot Spots: 1
We started our fall king season near Drano Lake. We fished 3 days with great success. It's still early but we had a great morning bite then it seemed to slow down throughout the day. We trolled pro tr...
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Posted: 3/29/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/29/2019
Hot Spots: 1
We have had a good past few days with a 11 fish day today wrapping up the week. We released a handful of females ranging 5 to 9lbs and kept many great eater males that were 16 to 23 inches. My best te...
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Posted: 9/21/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/21/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We have been Fishing the Handford reach for the past week with great success and 4 fish limits every morning. The bite has came on a down hill troll hugging the bottom tight with pro troll flashers ri...
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Posted: 9/10/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/10/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We had a great morning with lots of bites and a quick limit. I was running vip and hildebrandt 3.5 spinners in pink and green behind pro troll flashers. The leader length has been best at 36 inches an...
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Posted: 9/7/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We fished the Columbia gorge near the mouth of the klickitat and we had one boat below Bonneville dam. Both boats limited this morning with some very nice fish. Best rig was pro troll flasher with pin...
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Posted: 8/27/2018
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/27/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We fished The klickitat river today out of the drift boat. What a beautiful day and a great float. We fished mostly bobber and shrimp. Medium light spinning rod with 20lb braid rigged with a slip floa...
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Posted: 8/20/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/20/2018
Hot Spots: 1
We fished hard this morning for a few bites. We landed one nice king and our other boat landed one king. Definitely tougher but its just a matter of a little time before it heats back up again! We got...
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Posted: 8/13/2018
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/11/2018
Hot Spots: 1
The Chinook bite really slowed down this weekend. So we switched over to just steelhead on Saturday in one of the boats and had a fantastic day on with 14 fish to the boat. The best technique was bobb...
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Posted: 8/8/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/8/2018
Hot Spots: 1
We fished the Drano lake area and had a great morning. We hooked 8 kings and 2 steelhead by 10 a.m. we pulled pro troll flashers with 3.5 spinners and mini cutplug superbaits behind them. Pinks and or...
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Posted: 7/30/2018
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/30/2018
Hot Spots: 1
With having 2 boats gives us the luxury of fishing multiple fisheries. My other boat fished summer Steelhead out of Drano lake area today and had a ton of success! He reported 18 landed and 3 limits. ...
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Posted: 7/25/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/25/2018
Hot Spots: 1
We started at Brewster today for sockeye and got a quick limit of 12 fish. But the exciting part was we moved down to chelan falls mid morning and hooked 11 kings and landed 6. Great bite today! For t...
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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....
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Posted: 7/20/2018
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/20/2018
Hot Spots: 1
Fishing for sockeye is nothing short of on fire in Brewster! We trolled size 0 Dodgers with 14 inch leaders. Small Pink smile red hooks and a pink shrimp soaked in graybills krill scent. We found the ...
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Posted: 7/16/2018
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing is red hot for sockeye in Brewster! We had a limit of 6 fish in less than an hour this morning. Size 0 Dodgers with 17 inch leaders, red or pink beads and pink smile blades. We put this on top...
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Posted: 7/5/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/5/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We fished today at Chelan falls and wells dam. The bite was very consistent on both kings and sockeye. We pulled mini cutplug superbaits behind pro troll flashers. Best colors were Seahawk green and a...
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Posted: 6/18/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/17/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We fished Walleye below John day dam yesterday. The water is starting to get into the summer flows and the walleye fishing is very good. Most of our fish were in the 18 to 24 inch range and even found...
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Posted: 6/12/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/12/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We fished below John day dam today. Walleye fishing was very consistent. We landed a dozen fish in 4 hours. They were good healthy fish all in the 18 to 23 inch range. We consintrated on trolling dark...
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Posted: 6/7/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Drano lake this morning. There are a few fish around but over all pretty slow bite. We hooked 2 and landed 1 fish in 5 hours. We got bit on pro troll flashers with mini cutplug superbaits in pi...
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Posted: 5/23/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/22/2018
Hot Spots: 1
Spring Chinook in the Columbia gorge just keep coming! The fishing has been consistently good. We had a boat both at Drano lake and mouth of wind river and both boats did well. We have been doing best...
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Posted: 5/16/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/15/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Spring Chinook in the Columbia gorge is still going Good! We are getting a late push of fish over Bonneville that should keep the fishing good through early June! The best bite has been on pro troll a...
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Posted: 5/4/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/3/2018
Hot Spots: 1
We have been fishing the Columbia Gorge for Spring Chinook the past couple days. The fishing has been very consistent with plenty of action and a few limits. We have been trolling pro troll and Leo fl...
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