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By: RedderShredder
Posted: 6/16/2024
Species: Catfish
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/13/2024
Hot Spots: 0
Back for round two on the Palouse River, this time with my wife and my sister targeting channel catfish.
We arrived at the KOA marina at 9:30am and started fishing around 10am. This time we stayed...
By: RedderShredder
Posted: 5/29/2024
Species: Catfish
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/27/2024
Hot Spots: 1
The Palouse River has been on my radar for awhile and I was finally able to make it down on Memorial Day. I arrived at the State Park launch at 8am, which was good timing because that's when the park ...
By: ifightnerdz
Posted: 3/19/2022
Species: Catfish
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/19/2022
Hot Spots: 0
March Madness is upon us, which means Catfish season has come! Went to Lyons Ferry planning on heading up into the Palouse. As always, looking at my depth finder en route caused me to stop paddling ...
By: ifightnerdz
Posted: 7/2/2021
Species: Catfish
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/2/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to do some night fishing for catfish with a friend who had never been catfishing before. Instead of being the teacher I ended up being the person who learned.
Went out there with my typica...
By: walleyemark
Posted: 4/29/2021
Species: Catfish
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/29/2021
Hot Spots: 0
First real trip to the Palouse. Took awhile to figure out how to get up the river but eventually we did. We started out about a quarter of a mile up the main river above the big mud flat. We were in...
By: ifightnerdz
Posted: 4/26/2021
Species: Catfish
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/25/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Man this area never let you down when it comes to beautiful sights. Started the day in kayak by following the pipeline on a drift towards the Marmes Rock shelter. We picked up three doing this with a...
By: Ganno
Posted: 5/24/2018
Species: Catfish
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fish were scattered throughout the river one her one there all caught on cut bait. Weather was perfect lots of sun and little wind. Lots of boats fishing walleye the fish I seen caught were on the sm...
By: Noah
Posted: 5/1/2018
Species: Catfish
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/27/2018
Hot Spots: 1
Catfishing at Palouse Falls/Lyons Ferry/Snake River. It's only a few feet deep, too shallow for most boats. Beautiful, calm morning and day. Plenty of cats and walleye at the bottom of the deepest cha...
By: ilvcassidylake
Posted: 6/3/2017
Species: Catfish
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/2/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the Palouse river exactly noon. It was very hot out and so is the action. We fished till 730pm. Total =42 cats from 2-15lbs. We used perch and blue gill meat for bait.
By: ilvcassidylake
Posted: 6/26/2016
Species: Catfish
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/25/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished all day Saturday. Weather was in the 80s. We got 21 big channels catfish ranging 6-10lbs. What I learned on this river system- fish shallow In 2-4 ft of water, the best time is early morning...
By: Jose Diaz
Posted: 4/22/2015
Species: Catfish
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/19/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Fished from 9am-2pm. There are a ton of Walleye fisherman chasing fish up the Palouse with varying results. We fished the shallow 1.5-3 foot waters at the mouth for Channels and got bit using cut bait...
By: Fishman_Kuzan
Posted: 6/17/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/11/2014
Hot Spots: 3
This report is specifically for last Wednesday, but due to my lack of reporting I wanted to mention a few fishing trips from my last month of fishing. May was busy and I worked two ten day stretches,...
By: Jose Diaz
Posted: 6/9/2014
Species: Catfish
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/8/2014
Hot Spots: 2
On arrival we heard that there was a father and son team had a 26 fish day. I had a great day with one of my co-worker and my best friend. We targeted Chanel cats and using a variety of baits, we were...
By: KNM
Posted: 6/8/2014
Species: Catfish
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished 06-07-14 and half of 06-08-14.
Got there around 1030 hours and worked my way up the Palouse river. Fished for Smallies on the way up which was On!. Caught about 15 fish ranging from 1lb ...
By: lyonsferrymarina
Posted: 5/27/2014
Species: Catfish
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/22/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing is heating up in a big way. Cut bait, Chicken Liver and crawlers fished off the bottom with a bobber or float have been producing multiple catches and some nice size fish. Lots of 2 - 5 lbs wi...
By: SnoKing
Posted: 5/24/2014
Species: Catfish
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/22/2014
Hot Spots: 0
My wife and I made our annual trip to the confluence of the Palouse and Snake River in search of the big fat blue cats that run up the Palouse about this time. Well, we got there too early and as bes...
By: lyonsferrymarina
Posted: 5/19/2014
Species: Catfish
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/17/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Cat fishing has really taken off in the past week or so. Warmer weather and increasing water temps are all helping. Consistent catches of Cats between 3-6 lbs with the largest this past weekend coming...
By: Fishman_Kuzan
Posted: 5/10/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I am blessed to live in a place with access to beautiful, somewhat desolate areas. After work Friday I decided with a gusting southwest wind on the Snake to hike down into the Palouse canyon from Pal...
By: lyonsferrymarina
Posted: 4/5/2014
Species: Catfish
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Catfish action is picking up on the Palouse. Although not "hot" by any means decent numbers are starting to be caught. Fishing overnight produced about a dozen nice cats in the 4 - 10 lb range. Try us...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/13/2013
Species: Catfish
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2013
Hot Spots: 2
This report is over-due. I just got very busy lately!
I went fishing with Craig Dowdy of YJ Guide Service, his friend Steve, and Aaron and Andrew. We were after catfish and I was pretty excited as ...
By: jgsons2
Posted: 7/1/2012
Species: Catfish
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Just got back from the Palouse River fishing for Cats and Bass. Had a little less than average catch on cats. We caught 70 Cats in 16 hrs of fishing up the Palouse and some where around 30 Small Mouth...
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 6/4/2012
Species: Catfish
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My girlfriend and I fished the mouth of the Palouse River Saturday from 6 pm to midnight, and I went out again Sunday morning 6 to 11 am. We were targeting channel catfish from my boat.
Saturday (6...
By: Ghoti
Posted: 4/20/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/19/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fueled by reports of being able to catch walleye here in the early spring, I decided to give it a try. Never fished here before. First suprise was that the state park is closed until May 1st, so we f...
By: fishking
Posted: 10/19/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
this is for the palouse river in whitman county around the Winona/Endicott area the small mouth bass fishing is great i have caught a couple rainbows in there there's alot of squaw fish in there i usu...