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11 - Vernita Bridge to Priest Rapids Dam Fishing Reports
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By: tluedeke
Posted: 11/22/2012
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Utterly lost and confused. Always viewed meself as a decent analytical fisherman, but this is by *far* the hardest fishing I've ever done.
OK. Went out for the second time, based upon a marginal r...
By: tluedeke
Posted: 11/17/2012
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
What an amazing waste of a morning. Went up to the bars down below Vernita. Quite a few fisherman, probably 25. Used pink and red egg patterns, tipped with those fake maggots baits, on a leader ~15...
By: panfisher
Posted: 11/9/2012
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went with "Gordy" for some Whitefish fishing on the Columbia 8am-12:30pm. These fish were nice and fat from feasting on the salmon eggs. And the trick that caught them for us was Gordy's salmon egg fl...
By: Rocky
Posted: 9/26/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water around 7AM Picked up one king around 10 using a diver with a spin glow and salmon eggs. Nice 16lb. fish. Fishing was great-catching was slow. Was fishing with my neighbor,we had a gre...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/10/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Wife and I fished all day on the 9th and 10th at the King hole, hatchery hole and several other locations. On Sunday we boated 2 small kings and 1 jack with 2 missed. Today we hooked a 13lb king at ...
By: jbball50
Posted: 9/20/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
My dad, my friend, and I got out on the water early launching while it was dark still. Once we got up into the hole we were going to fish it was daylight and my dad and I fished off the downriggers w...
By: Rivercamp72
Posted: 9/16/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water about 0700. Motored up to Moran creek area and got the gear in the water. My son was wih me and a fish was on within ten minutes, but lost it... As the sun got higher the hopes co...
By: deltadog
Posted: 7/17/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Plunked the river on Wed. 7/13. Flow is still relatively fast with high water levels, although they looked to have dropped quite a bit. Had to google earth the area before heading out to find a spot t...
By: Rivercamp72
Posted: 4/27/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
This was the day just to get out on the water. High cloud cover with increasing wind. High water levels and water temp. was 45 dgreees. I was fishing for Walleye with Macks lure type set-up with sil...
By: fishinChristian
Posted: 2/9/2011
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Water clear and into the brush, quite high. Using the twin pontoon with twin MinnKota electrics (well, 55 and 46 lb thrusts), my fearless dogs and I struggled against the current (fearless or bored, ...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 10/17/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Please forgive me if I got the target species wrong, I am not a salmon expert. I went to the Vernita bridge to do some salmon fishing yesterday with my friend Trevore. His dad is a guide that runs tr...
By: DannyP
Posted: 9/19/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished 1.5 hours Friday night, 12 hours Sat and 3 hours Sunday. A lot of boats on the water, saw only a dozen fish caught all weekend. Water level way down over the weekend. Fish/Wildlife was ther...
By: 1cast
Posted: 9/18/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the King Hole in 50 ft of water about 40 ft down. Some fish were being caught after sunup. We stayed out because we did'nt get one early. Bite was slow after 10 am. We kept after it and finall...
By: Rivercamp72
Posted: 7/8/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Put in above Vernita Bridge at about 7:15 am. River level is lower by about 4'. I was working on my salmon fishing skills and still have much to learn. I was using a flasher, 6" and 4" chrome, and ...
By: Rivercamp72
Posted: 6/25/2010
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I put in north of Vernita Bridge off of SR 243. Water was still running high. Time was about 6:45 AM. Was unable to set my river anchor in the center of the river. I eventually was able to get it ...
By: gpc
Posted: 9/7/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
We fish this stretch of the columbia everytime we go to Desert Aire, mostly because its convienent. Ussually the catch consists of squaw fish, suckers and carp. But this time my buddy hooked into a ni...