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07 - The Dalles to McNary (Celilo/Umatilla) Report
Washington

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07/08/2017
91° - 95°
Trolling
Other
Gold
Sunny
Spoons
Evening
61° - 65°
07/09/2017
4
3082

Fished for Shad.

Launched from the Umatilla boat launch around 17:00 or so, went across to the Wash side by the Plymouth park boat launch.

We anchored up but were not seeing any action. Some nice guys trolled by and we talked to them, they said trolling was key and we were hitting the time limit my more experienced shad-fishing buddy was willing to wait while anchored. Trolling led us to somewhere in the neighborhood of a dozen and a half to 2 dozen fish. We had an absolute blast and were out for the better end of 3+ hours.

We fished a storm wiggler wart as a diver with #0 dick nite spoons on an 18"-24" leader. The gold & gold/silver colors wemoore the most productive.

FPC count for McNary on 7/8/17 was 23,067.


Comments

bullpine
7/11/2017 7:44:33 AM
Nice fish. What do you do with Shad? Smoke 'em?
Zamouie
7/11/2017 10:32:08 AM
Buddy brought his sturgeon pole so we thought about keeping 1 for bait, but we ended up just C&R
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