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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam Fishing Reports
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By: fish-huntr
Posted: 5/27/2015
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/22/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went out fishing in the new Grady White , had to test it out for a bit. but I knew I had to get our lines wet, so with some searching, found about a 80ft hole west of Hayden island. CATCH AND RELEASE....
By: BARCHASER10
Posted: 4/25/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/22/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Yeah I know the C is closed for Springers. We fished the Willamette. I posted this as a C report since if I posted as a Willy report it would go under Oregon not Washington.
Fished Wed, Thurs and...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 4/6/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/5/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing for me has been very good over the past week in the Portland area around Interstate 5. I have had boat limits or near limits every day for the past week. This upcoming week should continue t...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 3/29/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/29/2015
Hot Spots: 0
We spent yesterday getting the boat and slip all set to go, and took a few passes to make sure the boat and gear were ready to go. Today was our first full day chasing spring chinook for the season a...
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 5/27/2014
Species: Shad
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I know its a little early in the shad run, but I went anyways hoping to catch between 10-15 shad. Got there early for the morning bite around 7am. Got one after a dozen or so casts and snags. i though...
By: thefishwhisperer
Posted: 5/19/2014
Species: Shad
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I was down in portland area for the weekend, I decided to try my luck shad fishing for my first time. Was fishing below bonneville dam with shad darts and jig heads. Fishing was really slow, some peop...
By: Kyle Jones
Posted: 4/2/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/31/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Report Date 4/2/14
This past week we spent some time on the Lower Columbia targeting Spring Chinook in the I5 Bridge area. We primarily trolled herring and Fish Flash flashers by Yakima Bait Company...
By: salmonbarry
Posted: 3/27/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I am now 0 for 2 on springers but you can't catch 'em if your aren't fishing for 'em! Met the boys at the Red Lion at the Quay boat ramp at 7am and was met with a stiff south wind in our faces. We s...
By: brandon_murray1
Posted: 8/30/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I had read many encouraging reports on fishing the Columbia for Smallmouth Bass so I decided to give it a try. I chose to fish along the shore to the right of Beacon Rock State Park Boat Launch. I fis...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/17/2013
Species: Shad
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Today I got to fish for shad for the first time (well, I fished a bit last night I’m counting this as the first serious effort).
I arrived at 5:30am at the location closest to the dam, about 30 yar...
By: dzfish
Posted: 6/11/2013
Species: Shad
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Three buddies of mine from work ( Mr KAZ, He who fishes well, and He who sits a lot ) took a trip down to the bonneville dam to try and hook up with some shad. We left at 02:30 am from the house and a...
By: tluedeke
Posted: 6/9/2013
Species: Shad
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished my annual shad run on the Columbia, Oregon side, on Bradford Island, facing the Washington shore. Did this a number of times in the late 90s/early 2000s, and after relocated out of and then ba...
By: HULI_ISDA
Posted: 6/8/2013
Species: Shad
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well first time fishing the dam a friend tag me along with and it was a blast this fish can fight with ultra light tavle using sad jigs. Started the long drive from edmonds last night at 11pm got ther...
By: Ganno
Posted: 6/5/2013
Species: Shad
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Great day on the Columbia lots of bites once we located a lane that the fish were using .Fishing by Camas in thirteen feet of water with a small Dick Nite white with red head . The bite was fast and f...
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 6/2/2013
Species: Shad
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Started the day late, so got there around 2PM. I was planning to fish at the parking lot closest to the dam, but I saw my buddy way down stream at his car. He told me it was packed by the dam and he d...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 5/30/2013
Species: Shad
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/28/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I went fishing for shad for the second time in my life. This was the first time I found success! I fished near Bonneville Dam, but quite aways down from the crowd. I was happy to trade productivity fo...
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 6/20/2012
Species: Shad
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
After years of failing at catching many shad, I finally win. Past results ranged from being skunked to 2 shad. This year, I broke the double digit mark. I was schooled by a shad fisherman with decades...
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 6/11/2012
Species: Shad
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Made my annual shad fishing trip again. It was packed and parking was hard to find at 8 in the morning. Saw a few cars from Oregon taking advantage of free fishing weekend. Talked to a few guys that r...
By: Lip_Ripper87
Posted: 6/6/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well....another spot....another disappointment. I threw EVER spinbait(green/White/light blue, Black/speckled blue, Black, watermelon) I had. nothing. So...I think I was there at the wrong time of day....
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/23/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
wow slow start in morning not single fish must been three hundred boats and that know joke.then 9am boat front me gets one and land it small fish. then two min later bam rod gos nuts fish on put up go...
By: salmonbarry
Posted: 3/9/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Okay, I know this is a year old but had to post this as we are going out again tomorrow to try our luck on the Columbia for some early Springer action. We were on Ron's boat from a guide service and ...
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 6/27/2011
Species: Shad
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
This is the fourth attempt at shad fishing. I always hear about how easy it is to shad fish. It might be easy in the sense that they hook themselves, but learning how to fish in the rocks is a differe...
By: SportRadical
Posted: 6/19/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the columbia to try and learn how to plunk. Had several takes, but missed alot because I had to strong of line on my dropper at first. After I switched to 4lb test dropper I was able to break the ...
By: SportRadical
Posted: 6/9/2011
Species: Shad
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Headed down to Bonneville to try and catch some shad. Shad are full of bones and almost not worth eating, but last year I caught 35 in one day so fun is fun. Plus i have been itching to try out my new...
By: blurock
Posted: 6/9/2011
Species: Shad
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Being in Portland for the week, I had the whole afternoon with nothing to do so I decided to cross back over into Washington and try my hand at Shad fishing for the very first time. I'd gotten some t...