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By: birchb0x
Posted: 2/28/2022
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/28/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Hit up the Touchet again on Monday in the rain. Wanted to get out before the river flows increased from the coming rain and eventual spring runoff. I was targeting trout using size 14 prince nymphs, s...
By: birchb0x
Posted: 2/16/2022
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/16/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the Touchet near Waitsburg today. Mostly wanted to practice casting. River is catch and release only currently. Was about to leave in the mid afternoon and caught one on my second of three las...
By: MGTom
Posted: 7/28/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/28/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a couple days fly fishing the Touchet around the State Park and RV park. Plenty of pretty rainbows. A variety of nymphs and dry flies worked well. The water is getting low and the temperature is...
By: MGTom
Posted: 6/24/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/24/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Been doing some fly fishing in the Touchet around Waitsburg. Haven't found any big fish but there seems to be a good population of 8-12" fish, if you can keep the little ones off your hook.
By: MGTom
Posted: 6/9/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/8/2020
Hot Spots: 0
We did some fly fishing on the Touchet in Columbia County yesterday. Fished hare's ear nymphs and humpy dry flies. The fish are scattered so it takes some searching but they are there. Really a pleasa...
By: MGTom
Posted: 12/31/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/31/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Dayton in Columbia County and fished the main stem of the Touchet River this morning between the highway 12 bridge and the confluence near 4th st.. The water is really low, about 75cfs. The te...
By: slug-o
Posted: 3/24/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/20/2016
Hot Spots: 2
fished Sat. afternoon and Sun morning with my brother, about 7 miles from Dayton. Sat. had one hit and my brother saw one following his lure. only fished about 2 hours. Got to the river Sun about nin...
By: levidawes
Posted: 3/10/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/6/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Touchet on Friday downstream of Dayton, as well as the 28th of February (fished the Tucannon on this day as well), for steelhead and trout. Caught 2 smaller hen steelhead on the 6th, both a...
By: medic1
Posted: 8/4/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It has been a long time since I have fished the Touchet, but this was a very productive trip. Black rooster tail spinners thrown at the bank while we were walking down stream. We must have covered 4 ...
By: srigyre
Posted: 10/17/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Had about fifteen minutes to try out this hole in the town of Waitsburg. Third cast produced this unfamiliar fish. I was drifting with an egg loop rig and a corky to float it. I am not a born and brea...
By: stewie56
Posted: 7/20/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
All you need to fish in this river is up to 4 of the tiny weights (depending on how deep it is) and a hook thats it, the more basic the more you will catch.
Ok so we had like a sudden fishing t...