Oregon and Washington Fishing Guide

Here are a few ways to fish for Walleye on the Columbia River in Portland Oregon.

One way is with a bottom walker and a worm harness. Troll down river very slow. Remember the saying, “if you are not hanging up you are not fishing for Walleye.” I like to fish in 8 to 20 feet of water with a rocky bottom.

White sturgeon spawn many times in their lives. As they age, the females spawn less often, but produce more eggs in each spawning. In the late spring or early summer, they congregate in areas of rivers with a heavy current, gravel bottom, and a water temperature of 58 °F to 66 °F (14 °C to 19 °C). The fish broadcast spawn in these areas, with males releasing sperm as the outnumbered females release anywhere from 100,000 to a million eggs. The fertilized eggs then sink and adhere to the gravel at the bottom. The eggs are brown in color and will hatch in about a week, depending on water temperature. Female white sturgeon do not spawn every year.

Columbia River salmon fishing starts tomorrow. I will be fishing in the Columbia River gorge. There are about 2000 salmon a day going over the dam.

I like to fish in 12 to 15 feet of water and use spinners.
Fishing can be done at what everybody calls the shad rack.

Columbia river sturgeon fishing, the wind was blowing in the gorge as usual.
We were fishing below Bonneville dam. I had 4 clients on my boat which have all been with me lots of times. We started the day shad fishing,it was kinda slow.

Today I was sturgeon fishing in the columbia river. I was dow by roster rock.
What a day we had. the weather was nice, a little wind not to bad.
I had 2 people on the boat. we were in about 65 feet of water.
I had last year smelt for bate.
we had 17 small sturgeon and we caught 6 we could of keep.
of course we onley went home with 2 sturgeon.
there are startin to be some shad in the river, so that means great fishing ahead!