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20 - Upper Columbia River to Canadian Border Fishing Reports
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By: Conradlam
Posted: 7/17/2022
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/15/2022
Hot Spots: 0
A 3 AM start with my friend out of Deer Park, headed north to fish for giant behemoths. Started early in the morning Fishing in 60 feet of water. We moved around several times and finally found a hol...
By: Lambojac
Posted: 11/14/2021
Species: Burbot
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/14/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Landed a couple Burbot during the morning hours. Fished till noon and never found the hot spot. Hope to be back out and going after them again soon.
By: Walleyemark1
Posted: 8/21/2021
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/21/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Jigged and trolled the Arm with Jay. Caught 35 but only had 3 nice 19 inchers in the live well. Not enough to make cleaning them worthwhile. So back they went. Jay did catch and release a nice 24 inch...
By: nwbhoss
Posted: 5/29/2021
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Starting to get a handle on these Walleye. I spent the weekend at my buddies place in Gifford and only fished a couple hours 2 days. I was looking at property the rest of the time and put in an offer ...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 9/1/2020
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/22/2020
Hot Spots: 1
This is kind of a delayed report, as well as I have had trouble finding the area within NWFR, to report on the Kettle Falls portion of Lake Roosevelt. The website has become too large, and not nearly...
By: Lambojac
Posted: 5/10/2020
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/8/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Got out to the mouth of the Kettle River with my 1 year old boy to try and catch some fish now that it is "legal"...
I tried fishing on Tuesday, which was "opening day" according to supreme leader...
Posted: 9/7/2019
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/6/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Awesome day of fishing Sturgeon. The younger generation did an outstanding job landing fish. These guys caught a total of 7 fish and 2 keeper Sturgeon. They broke two records by the youngsters on our ...
Posted: 6/21/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/14/2019
Hot Spots: 0
This fishing family did an excellent job catching Walleye for their first time on Lake Roosevelt. They were jigging from depths of 45'-65' deep just North of Kettle Falls. These Walleye were caught ri...
Posted: 6/10/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/10/2019
Hot Spots: 0
These guys did an excellent job of fishing for Walleye today. This was their first time jigging for Walleye. We launched from Kettle falls and traveled about seven miles North. The Walleye hit on all...
By: wire3714
Posted: 7/15/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/15/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished out of Daisy with my son. Boarded 5 small ones and 1 at 9lbs
By: Luisljr085
Posted: 7/10/2018
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing around 5am on Sat hooked 1st one around 5:45am was about 45 in and had a few bites after then around noon hooked my keeper at 57in and called it a day. Next morning started again at 5a...
By: robholman
Posted: 7/30/2017
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/29/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Finished up my keeper sturgeon season with guide Shane Reynolds of Northwest Fishing Expeditions. We had a tremendous day with 14-15 fish to the boat including a couple of oversized. One was a huge 9-...
By: YJ Guide Service
Posted: 7/2/2017
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/27/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Well we fished the last 5 days up by kettle falls and had days that were well above average and days that were slow. We had several days with catch rates in the teens with 19 fish caught and 30 fish o...
By: Lambojac
Posted: 6/19/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/17/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on the shoreline at about 10AM between Daisy and Gifford. Threw out a hook and worm and let them sit for about an hour on the bottom with no luck. I switched one pole over to a jig and grub wi...
By: Lambojac
Posted: 5/24/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Since the mouth of the Kettle River is still rushing too fast, I decided to try at the mouth of the Colville for some shore fishing. I'd heard that people had been catching Pike and Walleye up above t...
By: Lambojac
Posted: 5/18/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/17/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Shore fishing at the mouth of the Kettle River has not been good so far. Over the last few weeks we've caught only 1 Burbot, 1 Walleye, and 2 Whitefish. Yesterday afternoon didn't produce a single bit...
By: Walleye Chief
Posted: 5/16/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/15/2017
Hot Spots: 0
We launched at Kettle Falls and headed about 5 miles Northeast of the Bridge. My first cast produced a nice wally around 22 inches and then my buddy Tom caught this monster on his second or third cas...
By: moosezema
Posted: 2/14/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/12/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Saturday and Sunday. Saturday was a good day with several fish but the weather was great. Sunday weather was cold but fishing was great. Caught and released around 30 trout, biggest being th...
By: First Light
Posted: 2/2/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Cabin fever took my senses from me as I left the house facing a cold wind. The dogs had to go for a walk so I took my rod as well. Down to the flats for a quick short walk. Wow. is the water up! Firs...
By: First Light
Posted: 1/28/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/28/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Launched @ Gifford by ourselves @ 8am. A steady drizzle welcomed us. Fished North on the East side working the points for 3-4 miles. Caught a nice rainbow right out of the gate on a pink squid with a ...
By: First Light
Posted: 1/26/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/26/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Launched @ Kettle Falls @ 9am and fished until 3:30pm. Ran south to the Colville Flats, trolled a triangle pattern in and out of the confluence. Water Temp was 38* inside and 38.4* outside. No other...
By: moosezema
Posted: 2/17/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/13/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Another epic day on the upper Columbia River. We caught brook trout, bull trout, rainbow trout, and cutbow trout but to top it off we caught and released what would of been the state record Westslope...
By: moosezema
Posted: 2/9/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Epic day on the upper Columbia. Weather was great and sun came out. Fishing was unbelievable with trout ranging 2-5 pounds all day. Water had just the right push to keep fish feeding all day. Great...
By: moosezema
Posted: 7/14/2014
Species: Brown Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the annual Northport Lion's Club fishing derby last weekend. Managed to catch the winning trout at 4.06 pounds. Two years in a row my group has won it with a brown trout. Fun weekend with gr...
By: TheEveningHatch
Posted: 5/28/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Nymphing continues to be the ticket...River came up substantially over the last 48 hours. Currently @ 222K. Regardless, we caught fish. The landing results were not as good as the 'awesome day' two ...