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07 - The Dalles to McNary (Celilo/Umatilla) Fishing Reports

By: tanner214
Posted: 5/20/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hey guys, just got back from crow butte. Had a pretty good trip, just a little early for the walleye to be on the bite but we did manage to get 4 pretty nice walleye an a few nice perch for the frying...
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By: tanner214
Posted: 5/20/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hey guys, got to go down to one of my favorite places to fish today with my son. But befor we headed out we made a quick stop by my bro jiggy's house to get some of his homemade jigs. He wanted us to ...
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By: tanner214
Posted: 5/9/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
went to rock creek and roosevelt today. the weather was very windy and cold the fishing was pretty slow caught 15-20 smallies on 3 inch gulp minnows and kalins 3 inch grubs in brown and chartruse. i h...
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By: SsendaM
Posted: 2/12/2012
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The fishing was tough on Lake Umatilla over the weekend. The weather and getting a fishing buddy his first Sturgeon made it well worth the effort. We fished Sat-Sun with only 2 bites and one fish to...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/19/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Rock Creek area of the Columbia for smallmouth yesterday, Found fish on the flats in 10-12 ft of water staging for the spawn. Trolled plugs and hooked about 15 for about 2 hrs of fishing. Gol...
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By: THester
Posted: 3/12/2011
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Rough morning trying to target some keepers. Herring, Squid, Roll Mop, No luck No boats on the water either so they must know something I dont.
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Posted: 6/7/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for Walleye at Patterson and got blanked. DIdnt see any other boats catch any either, save 1 shaker. So we switched to smallmouth fishing current seams in the main river and hammered small...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/17/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Jim and I went to the Columbia river below John Day to fish for smallmouth. The water temperature is approaching 60 deg, light wind and sunny. Fished with mainly plugs, chartreuse was the best color, ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/25/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went below John Day with a buddy to see if we could find some walleyes, Spent most of the day locating them and getting them to bite, What a beautiful day sunny and a light breeze, Finally located som...
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Posted: 10/31/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished above Ice Harbor. 1 Fish half an hour in and a catfish around noon. Left ramp at 0600and went home at 1730. Nice Hatchery fish Brads lighted lure. Thats the hot ticket
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Posted: 7/7/2009
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Below John Day Dam again for sturgeon for a few hours on the 4th. Hooked 5 and landed 3 in 2-3 hours. Great day, no wind and good friends. Biggest was 8'7" and had one break our 12/0 Big River ...
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By: stewie56
Posted: 6/30/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out htis moring form six to nine in hopes of some dinner for tonight. I had put rainbow trout as target fish but i was really trying to see if anything would bite.. I never got a nibble but i u...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/25/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I went fishing below John Day dam. The wind was blowing about 30 mph but our guide was able to put us on to some fish, in spit of the conditions. The wind surfers were out full force. There were 4 cli...
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Posted: 6/19/2009
Species: Shad
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well Shad fans...Those hard figthing silver fish are definately here! Headed down to John Day and picked up a one day Oregon license for 12 bucks and gave Shad fishing a shot. They were hitting all m...
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Posted: 6/17/2009
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished below John Day Dam for shad and sturgeon and was able to have the best day oversized sturgeon fishing trip I have had yet. There was no shortage of bait to be caught either, which is always nic...
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Posted: 6/10/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I recently met Dave, a caretaker at Crow's Butte State park down on the Mid Columbia and he was all abuzz about recent catches of big Walleye near the Park. Of course after hearing that I was ready an...
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Posted: 5/17/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out for a couple hours on Saturday, launched at davenport and went down towards china bend. The water level is really low, caught hung up and lost a prop in the Hcraft. Myself, my girlfriend’s ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/9/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Put in at Umatilla @8am trolled down stream on Wa. side with bottom walkers and nightcrawlers to the end of the island, nada, picked up and ran to Irrigon, fished outside edge of bar picked up one 16"...
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Posted: 9/14/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/8/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished with Tournament pro Michael Gibney and Dennis Clay for smallmouth bass. We spent the morning casting mainly rattletraps. I was using blue, Dennis had perch. Michael uses swim baits, surface lur...
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