Launched at Porcupine and went upriver to the little bay before Harker's Canyon between buoy 3 & 5. Trolled around using a Mack's chartreuse floating smile w/slow death hook and a purple wally pop crawler harness. The chartreuse was getting more action, so I swapped to a chartreuse cha cha. Caught two nice ones around 20" and a couple more about 14". Threw back a couple smalleyes. When the action slowed, we pulled up the gear and were about to try navigating up to buoy 5 for the first time when Mark and Glenn stopped by for a chat. They gave us some excellent advice on how to maneuver through the channel, which helped a lot. We would have used their fishing advice once we got up there, but the sun had already taken it's toll on us, and we had to call it a day before we got burned any further. (Don't forget sunscreen!) Now that I know the area, we'll head up further and do some jigging next time. We're so grateful for the beautiful weather and for this wonderful area to fish.

P.S. I'm confused about which section of NWFR's Columbia River to post reports for the Spokane arm. I think 19 works better because 18 says "to" the Spokane confluence, which linguistically suggests it doesn't include the arm. ¯\_( ' ' )_/¯