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03 - Rocky Point to Longview Bridge Fishing Reports

Posted: 3/31/2018
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/31/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lower Columbia in search of the delicious and elusive spring chinook this morning out of Cathlamet. Trolled cut plug herring, no flasher. Just after the start of our second pass the rod gets...
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Posted: 6/26/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/24/2017
Hot Spots: 0
So Friday I had hoped and planned on fishing with a couple of lake guru's Djbutler and Wafishman20 for some Lake Sammamish cutthroat chasing but alas the four letter word (work) dashed my hopes as all...
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Posted: 6/26/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/25/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Day 2- Woke up at 2:30 am to the smell of coffee as Craig had been up at 2 am getting everything ready so filled my thermos with coffee and down the hill we went again to pick up Kyle at 3:15! We go...
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By: SFCMcGan
Posted: 4/17/2017
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/16/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on the water Easter morning about 6am to fish for some springers... quite a few other boats launching.. Hit several holes (not sure of the names) along side several lines of boats. After sever...
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By: DjButler
Posted: 8/26/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/26/2016
Hot Spots: 0
What way to start my weekend with a very first time on the Columbia. Got my first Wa State King Salmon ever and ended up with a limit of 1 Coho and 1 King. It's kind of a bummer to drive 4 hours for t...
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By: mcgregor
Posted: 8/22/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We fished 8/19 - 8/21, We wanted to fish kings but since it was so slow we switched to Steelhead. Fishing was tough we missed a few strikes but landed a few too. Even got a bonus king.
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Posted: 3/12/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
two of us fished from daylight until 3:30pm. started fishing on anchor as tide was out going friends next to us had two take-downs fish did not stay on. were using K-15 wrapped quick fish. started tro...
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Posted: 6/29/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Was invited to go hit the Columbia today with buddy Craig so made the drive down to Longview Friday night after work and pulled into his driveway about 10:30. Like 2 little kids we played around with...
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Posted: 6/9/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished below Willow Grove launch plunking out of a boat. Went 1/1 using shrimp/spinglows for 3 rods. Caught 1 10lb hatchery summer run steelhead. Had a few other bites. Hot sunny day. Good to be ...
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Posted: 4/11/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Got a call this week from buddy Craig in Longview that he was taking Friday off in honor of them keeping the Columbia open and invited me to join him for some springer fishing! Of course I said YES!!...
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By: rustyski
Posted: 4/7/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water early and started fishing with kwikfish off of White's Island, just below the piling. Didn't take long before the first fish was in the boat. All told, my buddy and I got our limit,...
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Posted: 8/24/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on the Columbia Monday and Tuesday and caught a small king on Monday actually had to toss it back..... and nailed a silver and a Chinook on Tuesday great little 2 day vaca.
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Posted: 8/24/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Columbia River for kings near Longview last two days. River is dead. Over 15,000 kings gillnetted this week in lower Columbia (above bouy 10). Saw few fish caught yesterday and none today. ...
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Posted: 7/7/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Made it down to Longview Saturday evening and was excited for the chance of at some of those migrating chromers heading up the Columbia and we made a final check of the boat to make sure were ready to...
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Posted: 4/17/2013
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to hunt some Northern Pikeminnows with my buddy Buck, and all we seemed to catch were some confused Cutthroat. They were all big bodied suckers!!! Largest coming in at 17.25 in. and the smallest ...
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Posted: 3/23/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Was excited to hit the Columbia for the first time this year for that tasty Spring chinook! Drove down last night with my daughter who is visiting from her Disney cruise job for some time off and spe...
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Posted: 8/29/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Columbia at Willow Grove boat launch at 10am to fish the outgoing tide. Several boats were already pulling out from fishing the incoming tide that morning. Many were showing off fish, so we ...
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Posted: 12/17/2011
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water at the turn of high tide and boy was it foggy! Launched in Rainier, Oregon and eased our way down river near Mayger to a 65 foot deep sturgeon hole. Rigged up with squid and roll mop he...
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Posted: 3/20/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled Clifton Channel marked only one fish after 2 hours. Trolled and bottom fished above the Puget Island bridge marked fish intermittentlly only saw one jump. Tough and cold fishing. I am going...
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Posted: 8/31/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
just wanted to give you guys another pic of 3 days of fishing, freezer almost full- eat your heart out!
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By: mean dean
Posted: 6/7/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Willow Grove today for some steelhead fishing, brought along my wife and 4yr old son hoping they would both get their first steelhead. we were using sand shrimp with various colors of spinglos...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/18/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
fished the columbia all day saturday trolling herring, we tried green and blue cut plug around 18" off bottom, we tried a few with flashers and some with none at the same time, and also anchored out w...
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By: rseas
Posted: 4/8/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I headed for Cathlamet late Tuesday morning. We arrived at Elochman Slough Marina around 4:00 and the boat was wet by 4:30 (actually it was already wet but now with river water in addition ...
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Posted: 9/8/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/6/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing sunday with a guide service on the columbia river. Had a wonderful day despite the rain and wind. caught a couple of jacks and two kings, one was 33 lbs and the other 39 lbs. Deffinately...
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Posted: 5/8/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/8/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Lower Big C with WillDog looking for some Squawfish (Pikeminnow). Fished out of the Pontoon, until we got blown off the water. We were out on Puget Island which has a nice access area and ...
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