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16 - Lake Pateros Fishing Reports
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By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 8/7/2022
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/1/2022
Hot Spots: 0
We just completed our 2022 Sockeye season and man it was a good one! We limited the boat every trip we did! We did two trips a day and I think within the last 4 weeks, we landed close to 1,000 socke...
By: Yakhusker
Posted: 7/22/2022
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/17/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great few days of sockeye fishing and it ended with our quickest limits yet on Sunday. The night before I got lucky and had a Chinook hook up at Chelan Falls and I was riding a high! It was my ...
By: Conradlam
Posted: 7/22/2022
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/20/2022
Hot Spots: 0
A few friends and I went down for the annual Brewster sockeye derby. Better known as combat fishing, roller derby, figure eight racing, and the Indianapolis 500 rolled up into one.
We are all chasin...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 7/16/2021
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Brewster Sockeye/King Report:
We have been in the Pool for several weeks now. Sockeye fishing was epic this year, but was closed early by WDFW. Fishing was as easy as it gets with the amount of fis...
By: Noah
Posted: 9/1/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/27/2020
Hot Spots: 1
Fished the mouth of the Okanogan for king and sockeye. Fished were stacked up on the fish finder and surfacing constantly. Trolled a medium sized flasher and pink hoochie with smile blade and shrimp a...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 8/3/2020
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/3/2020
Hot Spots: 0
We fished August 1-5 in the Brewster Pool and the fishing was tremendous! Full boat sockeye limits every day for us and some great King fishing too! Coon shrimp dodgers for the sockeye trolled slow ...
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: Rising Son GS
Posted: 7/27/2020
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/24/2020
Hot Spots: 0
We continue to have phenomenal fishing in the Brewster Pool! Sockeye are biting like crazy and the king fishing is not too bad either! Trolling dodgers and shrimp spinners is the ticket for the sock...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 7/23/2020
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2020
Hot Spots: 0
This past spring I ordered a new kayak and with Covid disruptions in work force and supply chain was cautioned it might take until the fall to receive my kayak. I am always willing to wait for good th...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 7/17/2020
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/17/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Living in Brewster I always look forward to the summer salmon season on the upper Columbia. A cool June and a quality snowpack has kept the Okanogan running cooler and dirtier later into the summer. T...
Posted: 8/24/2019
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing the Brewster Pool is quite simple for me as I live really close and can get an early start and know the weather before I head out. Fortunately for me, I get to fish during the week so less pre...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 8/6/2019
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/1/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Opening day of the Brewster pool salmon fishery was without a doubt some of the best King Salmon fishing I've ever experienced. Less than two minutes into dropping my gear down I had hookup with my fi...
Posted: 10/15/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/11/2018
Hot Spots: 0
So I really wanted to see if I could get another King or 2 from the Upper Columbia. I have a hard time believing there are no Kings in there. So I launched at the new launch at Bridgeport and baited u...
Posted: 9/3/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/27/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Well, I do not like giving reports of fishing when I actually had no fish caught, but I am doing this one just because.
I had not fished since the Brewster Salmon derby and wanted to get out before ...
By: Willy10
Posted: 8/5/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/4/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We fished Saturday at the Brewster pool. We tried fishing Friday evening from 6-8 and didn't touch a fish. Talked to few people at the launch and they said it was a tough bite that day. Launched at 4...
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: Willy10
Posted: 7/29/2018
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/28/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Brewster pool and Chelan Falls, Thursday evening to Saturday morning. Got our limits of sockeye each day by by 730. Released 2 hatchery kings as well that were fun to fight amongst the boat...
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....
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...
Posted: 7/22/2018
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/22/2018
Hot Spots: 2
What a great trip! Well once we got fishing. Kinda a ruff start tho. It’s early kids are little crabby. Lost the little connector for the end of the steering arm from the main motor to the kicker ...
By: Willy10
Posted: 7/22/2018
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Brewster Saturday morning. Started fishing about 5 and limited with 6 by 630 aided by 2 doubles. Only made 1 pass and last fish came at the mouth. 150+ boats and even more fish to be caught. T...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 7/22/2018
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/20/2018
Hot Spots: 0
After returning from ICAST I was eager to fish the Brewster pool although a bit bummed to miss out on any opportunity for King Salmon. However, the willingness of Sockeye Salmon to take gear and they ...
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 ...
By: kokocrazy83
Posted: 7/20/2018
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/17/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We fished the mouth of the Okanogan Tuesday morning. As we pulled up to our destination at 5am there were already a ton of boats there. My boy said he counted 60 other boats fishing. We got our gear i...
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...