Quick trip, made an attempt, with poor weather conditions.
All tagged FishingNW
By Terry Otto, Columbian staff writer
Salmonid angling on the Columbia River is currently open for Chinook jacks and steelhead from the Astoria-Megler Bridge upstream to Bonneville Dam. Also, adult summer Chinook may be kept until July 4.
Given local conditions, and slow reports from the coast, decided to bottom fish on Sunday, June 3, 2018. Well, about 10 seconds into fishing, Jeff has a fish on, a beautiful Chinook, took a jig on his first drop!
Update Columbia River salmon, steelhead fisheries listed in the 2017-18 Sport Fishing Rules pamphlet
Action: Update Columbia River salmon and steelhead seasons listed in the 2017-18 Sport Fishing Rules pamphlet.
Effective dates: June 16 through June 30, 2018. Species affected: Salmon, steelhead.
Last Sunday out of Garibaldi. We got our six ling cod in fairly short order, and released a few orange fish and small lings. Weird thing is, never caught even one black rockfish.
Had to relocate once or twice to find a bite, and marked a few spots on the GPS. It was then only a matter of time before we had our 15 bottom fish and a few ling cod.
by Bob Rees
High flows from the snowmelt inundating the Columbia have backed up the Willamette River, causing lake-like effect and quelling the bite.
Spring Chinook catches remain sporadic, and the high tide exchange through the weekend should prove productive for upper bay anglers.
The halibut opener out of Garibaldi didn’t go all that well.
By Bill Monroe For The Oregonian/OregonLive
Oregon and Washington will open summer steelhead fishing Wednesday on the Columbia River from the Interstate 5 bridge downriver to Buoy 10.
May 11th, Launched out of Cathederal Park about 6:00 a.m. Fished four rods till about 8:00 a.m…………..Like any optimistic angler I figured I just needed to change locations and I would be successful Saturday May 12th. Launched from Gilbert River boat ramp about 6:00 a.m. neither day produced fish……………..
MICHAEL ZOGG DEL NORTE TRIPLICATE as posted Curry Coastal Pilot 5/11/18
Sportfishermen on both sides of the border were whacking bottomfish early last week, with limits of both rockfish and lingcod reported out of Brookings and Crescent City.
It was a good week for bottomfish anglers on both sides of the Oregon-California border until windy weather sent anglers back to shore on Thursday and Friday.
Got to the boat ramp around 5:30 a.m. and headed out into the Multnomah Channel. This is springer fishing, the action is slower than salmon fishing in the ocean.
The reports of slow, dismal crabbing, were unfortunately very accurate. We only got five keeper crab out of the three pots. Ended the day with a limit of ling cod and bottom fish………