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12 - Priest Rapids Reservoir Fishing Reports
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By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 7/8/2021
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Our Summer King fishing remains solid through this week. We are averaging 5-8 kings a day and depending on the day, we get a few clipped fish to take home. Trolling 360 flashers and spinners/super b...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 7/1/2021
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/1/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Munden's Rising Son Adventures has just completed their first week of Summer Chinook and Sockeye fishing! We had great fishing this week, even though the conditions are different than most years. Th...
By: Noah
Posted: 9/27/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/27/2020
Hot Spots: 1
In total darkness we boated to the mouth of Crab Creek. I couldn't tell where the dark water ended and sky began. The stars were also very bright and so was their reflection. It felt like we were boat...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 7/1/2020
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/1/2020
Hot Spots: 0
The King Opener on the Upper Columbia did not disappoint! We fished July 1-5 and limited the boat on sockeye all 5 days and were hooking 5-10 kings a trip! The wild to keeper ratio was not great for...
By: thefishinfool
Posted: 5/12/2018
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/12/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I come down to the Wanapum and priest rapids dam for the new season for sturgeon but I haven't had no luck and I haven't seen any other boats out. Anybody else got some pointers? One of the best trips...
By: Rising Son GS
Posted: 7/8/2017
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/5/2017
Hot Spots: 0
With rumors floating around of a sockeye closure, I wanted to get one trip in this year to fill the freezer. As a guide, I rarely get to keep or put any fish in my freezer! Sockeye is one fish I mak...
By: cptsdauhtr
Posted: 5/8/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I've never seen so many big bass! Fun day! One after another! All released.
By: beerbohm
Posted: 10/27/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/8/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went out the weekend before with a friend of mine to show me the ropes of salmon fishing and we ended up pulling 4 in the boat that weekend. The Next weekend the wife and I decided to give it a shot a...
By: Larry3215
Posted: 10/2/2016
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/27/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Late report - we spent Tuesday and Wednesday last week fishing a variety of spots in Priest Rapids from just below Wanapum dam down to the power lines right below Crab Creek. We were mainly targeting ...
By: dlantis
Posted: 7/18/2016
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I started fishing at daylight above Desert Aire. The wind blew hard early and it rained a little on us and it was hard to fish. We had very few bites and we tried every bait combination w...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 11/17/2012
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Sometimes, there's great great fishing to be had when we have the chance to go, so I accepted another invite to fish with my buddy Gordy below the priest Rapids Dam for winter Whitefish Friday morning...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 11/15/2012
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I got a chance to go do some white fish fishing with my good friends Gordy and Wally of Yakima just below the Priest Rapids Dam on the Columbia Wendsday afternoon. I had caught some whitefish on the Y...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/15/2012
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the merry go round below Wanapum dam on Thursday morning and targeted sockeye for the first time. No downriggers but we did manage to boat 3 and lost 3 using bare hooks on a 16" leader behind ...
By: Mercuryfisher77
Posted: 7/6/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Great morning, got up @ 2:30 to make it to the launch @ 3:45, downriggers in water by 4:25. Long line to wait for the narrow launch. started making the normal loop with the others. Picked up fish out...
By: deltadog
Posted: 8/5/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished just below Wanapum for one 20 lb wild hen. Plunking a Brad's Cut Plug Blue Hawaiian, with tuna. Caught around 0600.
By: 8theB8
Posted: 8/1/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I think this is the right area? I launched out of Vantage, and fished the east side throwing grubs around scattered rocks. Caught one smallie and lost one, however, it was the hardest fighting smallie...