The wind is not giving us Columbia River kayak fishermen much of a break, but we finally got a day when the wind was pretty much calm and we were able to get a great day of kayak fishing for smallmouth bass. The water level of the Columbia River is dropping, down a few feet … Read more
The wind and high river water has really put a damper on the late spring/early summer smallmouth bass fishing, but we hoped for the best and headed up to the John Day River for some kayak fishing for smallmouth bass. The wind only died down for one day and the water in the John Day … Read more
We have posted a Colorado River Kayak Fishing highlights video on YouTube. We will be posting a higher quality version on the watermanatwork.com website shortly. Full length kayak fishing videos from the Colorado River and desert southwest are in the works and will be posted as soon as they are finished. Click HERE or on … Read more
We got a brief window in the wind so we hit the road for some kayak fishing for smallmouth bass on the Columbia River in eastern Washington. The Columbia River here in the Columbia River Gorge is inches below flood stage with more water coming downstream. We headed upriver a couple big Columbia River dams … Read more
We are back in the Pacific Northwest and back out on the Columbia River kayak fishing for smallmouth bass. It didn’t take long to notice that the weather has been warm and dry and the snow in the mountains is melting at a rapid clip. The rivers and streams that flow from the Cascade Mountains … Read more
Our kayak fishing adventures on the Colorado River in the American southwest desert have come to an end. The daytime temperatures in the desert are well over 100° every day now, that’s a bit too hot for our outdoor living gear. It’s been a fantastic fishing trip and we have had a great time. Even … Read more
We had a good time fishing for smallmouth bass on the Colorado River at Picacho, but we are really looking for largemouth and striped bass because we will be fishing for smallmouth bass all summer on the Columbia River. Hard to beat the Columbia for smallmouth bass fishing and hard to beat the Colorado River … Read more
One of the places we wanted to check out here on our Colorado River kayak fishing adventures was Picacho State Park in southeast California. Picacho is an old mill site on the California side of the Colorado River, now it’s a state park. It has to be one of the more remote parks in the … Read more
Here are a few more photos from the great kayak fishing for largemouth bass on the Colorado River. We’ve been catching plenty of fish, but for a couple days all we caught were small fish in the one to two pound range. The past couple days the bigger fish have started to get in on … Read more
We spent another couple days kayak fishing for largemouth bass on the Colorado River, where the fishing remains pretty good. Not as good as last week when we were catching a lot of bigger fish, but still a lot of fish caught. The biggest fish were probably about two or three pounds, but I caught … Read more