Northwest Fishing Reports

I honestly don't know what I'll do in the future. For now I'm just glad the downrigger will be fixed and I'll have the option of using the rod holders that are a part of the downrigger if I want to. I do have some Scotty Orca style rod holders that I use when I'm fishing on the Columbia river for Ch...

I think there was/is indeed a washer on the inside. Its now flopping around the inside of the housing. It is one of those really small washers that looks like a small sprocket. I don't know the technical term for those. I'm thinking the little teeth on it were once embedded in the plastic on the ins...

This the bit of plastic I was referring to above.

I don't believe your analysis of a long term friction rub is correct. In an undamaged unit there is a nut embedded in the plastic. That nut pulled completely out and took the bolt that was screwed into it along with the rod holder with it. The portion of gears that is missing that you think have rub...

I can't say for certain what kind of fish it was. There are big rainbows in that lake too. I just know the rod started dancing and before I could even reach for the rod it was gone. I think the thing had to have been cracked and slowly but surely weakened until it failed completely. I don't really e...

I'd like some opinions about a downrigger failure I had on Sunday 2/7 from y'all. I was fishing kokanee on Hayden Lake, ID, my first trip there this year. I had caught a few fish when my port side downrigger failed quite catastrophically. A fish hit the line and the rod holder that comes on the down...

I wish I knew the answer to this question too. With Chapman being shut down it looks like Loon Lake is about the only option and I really don't like fishing up there because its so shallow and weedy.