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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam Report
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06/20/2020
66° - 70°
Bottom Fishing From Shore
Sturgeon
Herring
Raining
Bait Only
All Day
06/23/2020
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Went down to the Columbia with some friends this weekend while the Shad fishing was really hot! Bank fished for sturgeon right above the dam, and managed to hook about 10 but only landed 3 really small ones, but kept a local from illegally harvesting one of our fish! Herring seemed to work the best for us, although we tried sand shrimp and shad chunks as well. Check out the YouTube video I made about the day, worked hard on it!

https://youtu.be/TscY84NdgF0


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kenhsiung
6/24/2020 6:27:08 PM
didnt know you can fish sturgeon there among the shad fishermen. Saw a bunch jump, but didnt know they were even allowed to be fished there. maybe i gotta try next time!
00Swede
6/28/2020 5:07:36 PM
Sturgeon angling is prohibited from Bonneville Dam downstream 9 miles, May 1 to August 31, but I see you already figured that out by the way you tried to steer people away from your actual location by saying you were "above" the dam in your description. That is, very obviously, not above the dam. Lived there and fished there most of my 63 years.
The guy in your video that said you were in a Sturgeon Sanctuary was correct. Page 50 of the WA Regs.
Decent video though.
brianmonticello
6/28/2020 5:19:17 PM
Thanks for the compliment! And yeah I didn’t realize until afterwards that I read the regs wrong and we needed to be a little bit closer to the mouth by about half a mile to be in the right zone, definitely won’t make the mistake again. The Columbia River sections are pretty difficult to decipher compared to most other rivers imo, but I guess that’s a noob excuse.
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