Oregon & Washington Fishing Guide & Charter

Today I had 3 people fishing for sturgeon on the Columbia river!

None of these guys ever fished for sturgeon before
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We left the dock at Troutdale and went up the Columbia river to Roster Rock
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I put are line out, with smelt and sand shrimp.

What you need to know to catch Columbia River Sturgeon.

I like to use a ugly stick rod. With a pen gti 320 with 100 pound tuff line.

I use a slider for my weight the to my hook witch is a size 10.
I use 130 pound leader. I like my leader to be about 4 foot long.

Lets talk sturgeon fishing.Lets start upriver by the damn.Everybody knows about fishing the deadline.

The water is fast here,And if you have the guts for the heavy water you will find plenty of sturgeon here,Beware of barge traffic.

Today was a family day on the river.the kids and I launched the boat at 33rd in marine drive at about 8am.

I decided to take the kids for a day of catch and release sturgeon fishing.

So we headed down river and started fishing at kelly point park.We caught a few small sturgeon,Not much going on.

The most popular size on the Columbia river are K14.k15 and k16.
In recent years luhr jensen has added the new kwikfish x-treme 13x and 16x
witch are available in lighted versions.
I like to wrap my lure with a sardine. Or even sand shrimp.
You can troll with this or just let it sit on the bottom with a lead.
good luck.
let me know how you do.

A popular way fishing for salmon on the Columbia river is called backtrolling.I prefer to use a jet diver and a quickfish.

With your boat headed upstream above the are you wish to fish run your motor just fast enough to hold your boat even with the current.