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05 - I5 Bridge to Bonneville Dam Fishing Reports

By: RIBOwner
Posted: 4/4/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/4/2009
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Well it is that time of year again to fish the "Big C". Was able to boat one springer. It wasn't more than 5 minutes until we had a take down. Weather was o.k. but cold. It is still very early in ...
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Posted: 4/3/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/3/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Friends are down on the river as I write this, last two days they boated 5 fish, trolling herring, fish flash green and lime green. The fish are in and moving up. Pictures forth coming with tomorrows...
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Posted: 3/31/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Worked above the I5 bridge two days, used fish flash, 6oz. dropper, chartruse dyed, salt brined herring. No fish! Talked to many including guides, lots of boats caught no fish. Derby day fly over c...
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By: potato192
Posted: 3/16/2009
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Drove down to the bonneville for some sturgeon action. There were a few other fisherman fishing from the bank. No luck beautiful day no less.
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By: zbo
Posted: 7/30/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Wintler and caught a nice 1.5 pound smallmouth, and my friend caught a small sturgeon maybe 25 inches or so, and a 2 pound smallie. Just used worms on the bottom about 30 yards from shore. Fis...
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Posted: 7/5/2008
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
collective report from two outings. fishing the columbia river right below the I-5 bridge in my boat for sturgeon. we used sandshrimp and shad with the sandshrimp getting all the action. we have ...
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By: zbo
Posted: 7/3/2008
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I went to this little spot that not a lot of people fish down off of Old Evergreen Highway. I catch good sized Perch there in late summer when the water is lower. I was just seeing if I could get any ...
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Posted: 6/30/2008
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out today with Lyndon and tried our luck for Sturgeon. Decided to try an old shad I had saved for the last past year and use it as bait. Within a few minutes, Lyndon had caught his first Sturgeo...
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By: zbo
Posted: 6/28/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Wintler today and fished down near the private property and away from the swimmers. I caught an 11 inch squawfish and a 13 inch peamouth, but no sucker fish or sturgeon were biting. I missed a...
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Posted: 6/13/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
when i walked own the path and thought i was seeing thing when i seen how dam high the water was there was just a lil clearing to go straight out an that was it and i was use night crawlers and a barb...
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Posted: 6/8/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/8/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out today around 11:30. Weather was extremely nice and the water actually seemed a little shallower. decided to try out a new spot and give a couple new products a try. Got some good info from so...
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Posted: 6/7/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went back to fish for Smallmouth today around 8 this morning. Tried using plastic worms with a drop-shot for about 1hr but didn't seem to get more than a nibble. So I went back to my usual hook and wo...
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Posted: 6/4/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went in search of Squaw-fish, but ended up switching over to smallmouth later today. Weather seemed nice, but for some reason...I was getting fewer bites than my previous trips. I'll be back soon. I w...
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Posted: 6/3/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with my cousin to try some Smallie fishing this afternoon. Started getting bites all over the place. Caught my first smallie around 5mins into fishing. Then about an hour later, I hook and la...
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By: lskiles
Posted: 6/3/2008
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Catapiller Island. The water was so high that only three or four of the concrete planks of the boat ramp were out of the water. The water was brown and fast. Fished for about a half-hour a...
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Posted: 6/1/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Me and my brother went out to the Columbia on our 12 foot raft(Kinda scary). We started fishing at the steamboat landing dock. the water was moving really fast because the water is so high. We tried t...
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By: zbo
Posted: 5/30/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I went to Wintler with my friend Melila and we didn't get anything for about an hour, but then he hooked a 10" squaw and we threw it on the stringer so I could turn it in for my 4$. So a little later ...
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By: zbo
Posted: 5/26/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well today I went to the spot where fishermanmax had done his shad fishing, but i did not have the same success. The main problem was that I do not know how to fish for shad, but also it was very crow...
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Posted: 5/19/2008
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Here are the pictures to go along with my last report.
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Posted: 5/19/2008
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Me and my buddies fished the Steam boat landing park dock on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. we fished using dick nites with a weight that kept them on the bottom. we caught 3 shad Saturday and on...
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By: lskiles
Posted: 5/17/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Wintler Park about 8:00 this morning and fished until 11:00. There was a guy who had been there since about 7:30 and he had three or four fish on his stringer but he did not know what the...
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Posted: 5/16/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/16/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well i got to wintler park about 3 o clock. I went to the spot over by the houses just like zbo had talked about and i caught one 8 pound carp. Fun fight !!! I used a barbless hook so he was cleanly r...
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By: zbo
Posted: 5/14/2008
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/14/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I went to Wintler Park this evening at about 7. I didn't get anything except one bite while fishing with a worm on the bottom. There was lots of fish jumping that were small so I decided to put on my ...
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By: colton
Posted: 5/4/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well I decided to try bass fishing for the first time this year. I caught one quality small-mouth on a spinner bait and that was it. I had a great time though. I was pretty surprised i actually caught...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/21/2008
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/20/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well went on on the final day of Spring Chinook season on the Columbia. We saw some fish caught and we were able to land two one 23 pound hen and one 12-15 native and was quickly released. Had to ca...
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