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11 - Vernita Bridge to Priest Rapids Dam Fishing Reports
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By: Asianju
Posted: 10/12/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/11/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Took the advice from eat-sleep-and fish and decided to give vernita another try. This time, went with longer leaders and used jumbo jet divers and decided to fish a little shallower in 14-16 feet of w...
Posted: 10/7/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/6/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Vernita Bridge fishing for salmon with Dons Fishing Service Tuesday . We started out early before sun up and were fishing by 6:30, had our first one by 6:35 nice 12 pounder. Our next one was a...
By: Asianju
Posted: 10/5/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
New comer to the northwest fishing reports. Heard good reports that kings were being caught at vernita so decided to make the trip with my old man and see if we couldn't pull 1 or 2 out. Fish were rol...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 10/4/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, what another awesome day on the river. The weather down on the Columbia River has been incredible. It wasn't until I arrived in Spokane that I realized fall is upon us. It still feels like summ...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 9/30/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for Captain Daves Guide Service. He asked me to post it for him as he is fishing the Vernita area and was unable to log on.
(Dave) I am having a great time down here on the Columbia...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 9/20/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well my last two days down at Vernita bridge is nothing to brag about, but still worthy of a report.
The water levels are lower than normal for this time year. Making launching a little sketchy th...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 9/13/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/13/2015
Hot Spots: 0
It is game on down at Vernita bridge. We had another fun day today on the water with lots of action. Unfortunately we lost a lot of fish which resulted in landing eight of the 16 we hooked. Oh well, s...
By: CaptainDavesGS
Posted: 9/11/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
WOW! What a fun day yesterday down at Vernita. The weather was awesome and so was the fishing. I love the scenery down there this time of year. We had fun seeing 6 coyotes on the way up the river. F...
By: Aaron
Posted: 9/9/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/5/2015
Hot Spots: 0
We spent Sep 5th, 6th and 7th with guide Don Talbot targeting the Chinook in the Hanford Reach area of the Columbia.
On all 3 days we spent our early mornings below the Priest Rapids dam trolling ...
By: DonTalbotFishing
Posted: 9/3/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
It is true.. Vernita is putting out big fish..... My customers Brett & Killian McGinnis had a blast watching the reel scream several times today. Are the fish rolling? Yes! A good indication wher...
By: DonTalbotFishing
Posted: 9/1/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Epic day all alone at Vernita. I guided Darin and Christine Randall and their two children on a trip of a lifetime. We got down to Vernita at 6am and the water was 15 feet lower than normal. I wasn...
By: Lipriper
Posted: 1/16/2015
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Foggy and icy but got in the water about 0730 fished until 1430. Three of us caught over 30 peamouths, great for smoking and canning. This is a great place to teach a kid how to drift fishing. Whitefi...
By: downriggeral
Posted: 10/31/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry about the late report. I had some minor, or not so minor, skin surgery just below my eyelid. They ended up having to do reconstructive surgery and a skin graft. Are we having fun yet? Thankf...
By: rickcrit
Posted: 10/4/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Left Spokane around 3:30am arrived at Vernita Bridge around 6 long line at main launch so went over to other launch only 3 people in line.. In the water and gear in water with in 15min fish on right ...
By: HDFat1
Posted: 9/15/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/13/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Weather was nice, sweatshirt and shorts, line not too long to launch. Went towards Priest Rapids Dam about 1/4 and trolled using Super Baits. Missed first one about 0800, hooked 2nd one about 830, 3...
By: fishinChristian
Posted: 1/3/2014
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/3/2014
Hot Spots: 0
So, I hadn't been a very good Grandpa lately, and I grabbed the fishingest grandson and went the 60 miles to Priest Rapids. Checked out the island with 10x50 binoculars, and during 20 minutes of stal...
By: panfisher
Posted: 11/23/2013
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Gordys famous egg flies with a variety of smelly stuff took most of them. Took 14 home to smoke and make more caviar(check out the forum under culinary delights ) We fished from about 7:30am-2:00pm. s...
By: panfisher
Posted: 11/18/2013
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Gordy and I got to the spot (Whitefish Island) about 7:30 am. There was hardly an Island when we pulled up but the water was going down fast enough to give use some dry areas within a few hours. We ca...
By: panfisher
Posted: 11/5/2013
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Three of us decided to check out the whitefish action from Whitefish Island using egg flies.Of coarse caught I caught only one of which was also the smallest. Gordy caught the others with several Zomb...
By: allanwalker
Posted: 10/21/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Chinook/kings Friday, Saturday and Sunday from PRDam to White Bluffs. Friday we were 4 for 6 (4 in the boat and 2 misses) up near the dam, Saturday we were 1 for 3 and Sunday 0 for 1. As wall...
By: panfisher
Posted: 10/12/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Gordy and his brother let me come along to fish for some kings drifting eggs. It was really tough fishing, caught this 18-----------------------"er within the first 5 min then nothing . Did get somet...
By: Rocky
Posted: 9/30/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/28/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Priest Rapids last weekend with one of my dear friend and his son that has never caught a salmon.Man did he have a good time the Lord really bless us he caught three kings and two jacks.Love ...
By: Rocky
Posted: 9/26/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/25/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Made my first trip of the year to Priest Rapids Dam it was a good day. There were three of us ended up with three kings and two jacks. We were using salmon eggs with jet divers. It was a great day to...
By: hewesbob
Posted: 9/20/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
We fished Hanford Reach 8:00an till dark, we hit every hole from Vernita Bridge to the dam only had one bite all day. We tried everything we had, fresh herring, Brads cut plug, Apex lures, and all kin...
By: Rivercamp72
Posted: 8/11/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My wife and I finally got out this year to get some fishing in. Motored up to hatchery creek and was trolling in 19-22' of water on the west side of the river. Using down riggers, Brad's Baits cut p...