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13 - Lake Wanapum Fishing Reports
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By: pgfrmr
Posted: 5/6/2022
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/6/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Dinosaur Bucket List Trip.
Now that I'm a man of a certain age and am fortunate to have a little mad money available, I decided to try and check off one of my fishing bucket list trips. Dinosaur hunt...
By: Spencer Ewing
Posted: 7/12/2020
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/12/2020
Hot Spots: 0
We joined Captain Dave yesterday on the Columbia below Wanapum Dam to fish for Kings and Sockeye. The fishing was really good and we had many opportunities at our sockeye limit, but could not seem to ...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 7/1/2020
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/1/2020
Hot Spots: 0
July 1 opener was great! We got our fish quick with some great size this year. We trolled 6 oz at 12-16 ft on the counters using typical sockeye gear and tipping our hooks with coon shrimp. One tip...
By: TwoFlyNW
Posted: 5/22/2018
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/19/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Water was not as bad as i thought it was going to be. Was a hot day, caught one in the first 30 minutes of fishing. measured 78 inches though, had bites but nothing else stuck just the one. Moved arou...
By: Lamprey01
Posted: 10/9/2017
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/9/2017
Hot Spots: 0
It's that time of year again! Two of us caught 5 adults and one jack this morning with tuna from the bank. Best bite is 4-6am. Fished for two hours.
Also released a coho (about 10lbs) and a steelhe...
By: swies
Posted: 10/4/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/3/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Started bank fishing @ 1500 floating roe. Got one bite in the first hour. Then went to spinners and tossed 4 different versions in the next 2 hours. Finished with Warts for the last hour. Totaled 3 bi...
By: Lamprey01
Posted: 10/11/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/10/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing has been outstanding in the Wanapum pool. It takes a bit if effort to find even smoker quality fish, but the constant action is well worth it. We have been catching 10-12 fish from shore in a ...
Posted: 8/18/2016
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Well got to post my report good bad or indifferent. I hope i got this in the right location. We worked from below rock island dam. Started out leaving Okanogan at 4 am. I'm not a early bird so I re...
By: LCRMAN89
Posted: 10/9/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/6/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went out this last tuesday and picked up a couple jacks on brad's cut plug's, both on "The honeydew". using only pro cure bloody tuna scent. I know the norm around here is tuna fish with super dipping...
By: joetucker803
Posted: 4/29/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/29/2015
Hot Spots: 0
My Grandfather and I fished fished the backwater sloughs of the Columbia River today. The only luck we (I) had was at Buckshot, just north of Desert Air on RD 26SW. Although we did try other backwat...
By: vatoloco_1993si
Posted: 9/21/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Not a bad catch for a days fishing off shore. Used a red/mirror cut plug with tuna . I caught 2 the most caught around me. I talked to a couple of boats below wanapum and each caught 2 fish only . so ...
By: vatoloco_1993si
Posted: 9/19/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Great day for kings above wanapum at the cove. Using cut plugs and super bait with tuna. Hooked 5 kings and 2 came off . 2 adults and 1 jack nice color to. Tight lines...
By: DanH
Posted: 7/16/2013
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished around Getty's cove looking for sockeye coming over the dam. Nothing... didn't even see another boat in the area. After a couple of hours ran along the dam and saw 3 boats fishing right up ti...
By: wishing4walleye
Posted: 7/14/2012
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
MAN! Wanapum DAM! You better be ready for crazy stuff out here. I launch in tumble weeds over here in eastern washington usually, but this launch is nutz! Waves crashing into the boat... the boat ba...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/7/2012
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/2/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Getty's Cove for a few hours just to see if any sockeye were around. Didn't find any!
Packed up and headed to the bridge for smallmouth. Got one decent smallmouth and one squawfish right a...
By: DanH
Posted: 5/7/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Tried fishing around Vantage on Saturday. Winds were very high. Original plan was to fish around the bridge and South of there. Winds forced us to the North of the bridge right along the West side ...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 3/5/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The calendar says it's March, so that means it's time to see if the big girls are moving up to Rock Island Dam. The water temperature confirmed it's too early in March, however, and so the bite was n...
By: DanH
Posted: 10/10/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Getty's Cove Saturday (5 hours) and Sunday (2 hours) morning. Saturday we got one fish, probably 15lbs. It was pretty dark. We caught it trolling about 100 yards off the riprap - further out...
By: deltadog
Posted: 9/25/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled near the buoy line and the west bank. Marked quite a few fish but no takers. About 3 other boats out as well. Did manage one small sockeye hatcling about 6 inches long, tried to eat my red 5/0...
By: DB4Fish
Posted: 10/8/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Most people spend too much time near the bridge. It's a decent run, but go north to crescent bar, fish the slough behind the bar, the old barge (ferry landing) smallies to 4 pounds abound. Fish the...
By: DanH
Posted: 10/5/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Tried fishing Wanapum this past weekend, I've been fishing it occassionally (2 or 3 times a year) for the past 5 years, pretty much the same result - only a few fish caught. The only place I can find...
By: Skeeterpilot
Posted: 10/1/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Wanapum again for a couple of days. Only manged to find fish on the rocks at the west approach to the I-90 bridge. Surface temperatures averaged around 67 to 68. Tried the old roadbed just ...
By: Skeeterpilot
Posted: 4/10/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Launched from ramp at the end of Old Vantage Highway. Ran up river 6 miles and just past Sunland to a cove on the west side of the reservoir. Covered the area with everything we had. Saw fish on th...
By: lund only
Posted: 2/22/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Gave the river, below Wanapum dam a try for early walleye's. fished the mouth of crab creek with jigs and bottom bouncers. We fished some other areas on our way back to the launch, but no luck. The be...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/6/2008
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I spent the last 8 days visiting my folks in Tri-Cities and my dad and I went out 3 times to fish the Columbia. I tried out the Banjo Minnow system after seeing an infomercial about them and wanted to...