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12 - Priest Rapids Reservoir Fishing Reports

12 - Priest Rapids Reservoir
By: thefishinfool
Posted: 5/12/2018
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/12/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I come down to the Wanapum and priest rapids dam for the new season for sturgeon but I haven't had no luck and I haven't seen any other boats out. Anybody else got some pointers? One of the best trips...
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12 - Priest Rapids Reservoir
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 7/8/2017
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/5/2017
Hot Spots: 0
With rumors floating around of a sockeye closure, I wanted to get one trip in this year to fill the freezer. As a guide, I rarely get to keep or put any fish in my freezer! Sockeye is one fish I mak...
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12 - Priest Rapids Reservoir
By: cptsdauhtr
Posted: 5/8/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I've never seen so many big bass! Fun day! One after another! All released.
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12 - Priest Rapids Reservoir
By: beerbohm
Posted: 10/27/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/8/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went out the weekend before with a friend of mine to show me the ropes of salmon fishing and we ended up pulling 4 in the boat that weekend. The Next weekend the wife and I decided to give it a shot a...
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By: Larry3215
Posted: 10/2/2016
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/27/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Late report - we spent Tuesday and Wednesday last week fishing a variety of spots in Priest Rapids from just below Wanapum dam down to the power lines right below Crab Creek. We were mainly targeting ...
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12 - Priest Rapids Reservoir
By: dlantis
Posted: 7/18/2016
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I started fishing at daylight above Desert Aire. The wind blew hard early and it rained a little on us and it was hard to fish. We had very few bites and we tried every bait combination w...
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12 - Priest Rapids Reservoir
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 11/17/2012
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Sometimes, there's great great fishing to be had when we have the chance to go, so I accepted another invite to fish with my buddy Gordy below the priest Rapids Dam for winter Whitefish Friday morning...
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12 - Priest Rapids Reservoir
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 11/15/2012
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I got a chance to go do some white fish fishing with my good friends Gordy and Wally of Yakima just below the Priest Rapids Dam on the Columbia Wendsday afternoon. I had caught some whitefish on the Y...
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12 - Priest Rapids Reservoir
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/15/2012
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the merry go round below Wanapum dam on Thursday morning and targeted sockeye for the first time. No downriggers but we did manage to boat 3 and lost 3 using bare hooks on a 16" leader behind ...
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By: Mercuryfisher77
Posted: 7/6/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Great morning, got up @ 2:30 to make it to the launch @ 3:45, downriggers in water by 4:25. Long line to wait for the narrow launch. started making the normal loop with the others. Picked up fish out...
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By: deltadog
Posted: 8/5/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished just below Wanapum for one 20 lb wild hen. Plunking a Brad's Cut Plug Blue Hawaiian, with tuna. Caught around 0600.
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12 - Priest Rapids Reservoir
By: 8theB8
Posted: 8/1/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I think this is the right area? I launched out of Vantage, and fished the east side throwing grubs around scattered rocks. Caught one smallie and lost one, however, it was the hardest fighting smallie...
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