2015 Fishing Season Starts Today

As the record dry and warm spring in the PacNW continues, we were able to start the 2015 fishing season a couple weeks earlier than usual. It was a calm, sunny and mild day today and we were able to get out on the Columbia River to see if the smallmouth bass were starting to move. I don’t think the fish got the news about the mild spring weather because I did not catch a single fish, nor did I see any signs of smallmouth bass activity. The water temp in the main channel was about 53°F, that’s still a little cold for the bass to start moving.

First 2015 fishing trip

I think it will be a couple more weeks before we are able to get the bass to start biting. Looks like alternating wind and rain for the next few days, but if we get a calm day or two, I think we might try for a spring chinook or steelhead. The odds of catching a springer this far up the Columbia are pretty slim, but if you are going to paddle all day and not catch anything, you might as well go after something big. We’ll be catching plenty of smallmouth bass soon enough.

Meanwhile, the work on the watermanatwork.com mobile website continues. We are making good progress. Once the mobile site is up, we will probably tweak the pages and get back to one website that works on all devices.

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