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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam Fishing Reports

05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
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...
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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
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...
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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
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...
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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
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...
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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
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...
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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
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...
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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
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...
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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
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...
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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
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....
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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
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...
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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
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 ...
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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
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...
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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
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 ...
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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
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...
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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
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...
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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 6/14/2010
Species: Shad
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished below the dam from 8am to 2pm. I only had 2 shad on my line all day. Using 6 pound leader was a bad idea. Didnt see many caught from other fisherman fishing with shad darts. Two people plunking...
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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
By: jens
Posted: 6/2/2010
Species: Shad
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I started my morning fishing for Smallies at my little secluded spot at Ashes. I fished from 5am to 10:30am. The action was surprisingly slow. I landed 4 small dinks biggest maybe a pound and 1 lost ...
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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
By: Rippasher06
Posted: 8/24/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the river with the kids and my dad. Decided to throw in my line. Fished six hours with hook and bait but all I did was snaggn' rocks with the gear I had. ran out except one I was savn' for ...
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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
By: crankbait42
Posted: 7/19/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/19/2009
Hot Spots: 0
my grandpa my uncle and i went out on the columbia today. We got on the water at about 3:30 and started fishing at about 5. it started slow but soon started to pick up we had a couple strikes and the ...
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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
By: ckim85
Posted: 6/17/2009
Species: Shad
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Took a 2 day camping trip out to Columbia River over at Beacon Rock state park. Scenery is absolutely gorgeous and we had a lot of fun camping. We hit up right by the Bonneville Dam from the shore ...
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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
By: returnofthefish
Posted: 6/7/2009
Species: Shad
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went shad fishing for the first time ever. We traveled 3.5 hours from Seattle to see what the shad fishing was all about. The dam access road was easy to find. We picked the very first spot we could f...
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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
By: Nelly1
Posted: 4/22/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 6am till 4pm with about 200+ boats. Launched at Portco and fished from the i205 bridge to the I-5, trolling a cut plug herring, and a fish flash with a cut plug, on the bottom with no succ...
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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
By: rseas
Posted: 4/16/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
In trying to bring home a spring Chinook we fished the following rigs; one green fish flash with cut-plug herring, the second a lime green fish flash with cut-plug herring and the third rig was a stra...
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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
By: RIBOwner
Posted: 4/11/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well the Army Engineers decided to release more water this morning. Too much flow to even troll, and forget about anchoring. Spoke with the Washington F&W and only two fish were checked in. Aft...
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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam
By: RIBOwner
Posted: 4/10/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My friend and I fished for a couple hours after work and no luck. Very few boats out that evening. Spoke to a few guys are the ramp who had fish, but worked all day to get them. Few more days left...
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