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After about a week of snow, ice, rain and freezing fog, the weather finally cleared up enough to give us another shot at the salmon here in the Columbia River Gorge. It’s still late fall and the temperature in in the mid forties, but that looks pretty good after a week or so where it … Read more
Feeling sad about packing the kayak away a couple days ago, but it was probably the best call. We got some significant snow here in the Columbia River Gorge, enough to go snowboarding in the front yard! We are still going to try and get out and do a little more salmon fishing before the … Read more
There are still fair numbers of coho salmon coming over the Bonneville Dam, especially this late in the season, but the salmon fishing is definitely slowing down here in the Columbia River Gorge. We haven’t caught a chinook salmon for a few weeks now, there are plenty of spawned out dead ones on the bottom … Read more
Today was an awesome day for fishing on the Columbia River; no wind, not too cold and the sun even came out for a couple hours. Only problem is the salmon fishing was really slow. Paddled around all day long casting every lure I have until my shoulders and arms were aching and only had … Read more
After getting limits of coho salmon on a relatively short day on the water yesterday, we were up at the crack of gray today to try our luck again. It was cloudy with showers around, but the wind was nearly dead calm, which is the most important thing. Despite the dismal clouds and drizzle, it … Read more
It’s been a pretty good weekend for salmon fishing here in the Columbia River Gorge. It hasn’t been raining, but the wind has been a factor. With the salmon season about over, we are getting up early to beat the wind; that was the ticket the past couple days. Yesterday, the wind came up quickly … Read more
The rainy weather continues here in the Pacific Northwest, making the kayak fishing kind of tough. A little rain isn’t going to stop anybody from fishing, especially when you are going after what could be the last salmon of the season, but day after day of rain has messed up the rivers and the salmon … Read more
We’ve been having quite a bit of rain, not unusual for this time of year, and it is putting a real damper on what’s left of the salmon fishing season. Many of the rivers are running high and muddy and when the rivers are in that condition, the salmon stop biting. We went out anyway … Read more
The salmon fishing on the Columbia River has been slowing down in the past week or so here in the Columbia River Gorge so we have to head upriver and follow the fish. The salmon run is ending so you either have to head east on the Columbia River or fish the rivers that empty … Read more