lowjack

well, i was gonna take the boat to Foster tomorrow but I think we're going to head to Clackamette and give the shads a go. Not the best time with the current conditions but fishin is fishin

southside_10

Be careful and keep a close watch on big flotsam and jetsam in the river.

I sure hope you find a good slot with lots of action!!

Please report back with your results.

Peace, Tom

FishKiller23

Any one catching yet??? Also any one wanting to hook up once the shad start rolling in? My boat or yours?

let me know it would be a first time fishing for shad and wouldnt mind some one to show me.

Thanks

lowjack

sorry fior the delay with the follow up. I actually saw a couple tails come out of the water VERY close to shore, but the water is just too high, too cold, and too dirty. There were 8 or 9 boats in the water and when we left we were the only anglers there. I'm afraid that we may not see any good fishing there close to a month. As the weather improves it will just create more run-off which makes the water high, cold, and dirty....kind of a catch22... BUT, the counts at Bonneville are getting better every day so down the Columbia there's deffinately action I just think we'll have to wait a while to see conditions improve on the big W

https://www.nwp.usace.army.mil/op/fi...tn=View+Report

southside_10

At least you got to get out on the water. Thanks for the report.

Peace, Tom

tongo

My buddy took me shad fishing near bonneville and we were able to fill a small cooler, i would say about 30 fish. We used a big treble hook with glo yarn. It was great fun because salmon and steelhead were also biting and gave us some great entertainment. This was the first time i left with a bruised hand and sore forearm.

FishKiller23

OOO thanks for the report I cant wait until I go out.

plunkme

went shad fishing near bonneville today still pretty slow for some reason fish are not as strong this year as last year last year we were getting about 40000 fish in per day this year is about 1000-2000 so still slow. caught about 15 with just me and my cousin only a couple of other people were catching them also got there at 7 left at 12 chadpm darts were doing pretty well sorry no pics fishing was too fun and forgot to take out the camera they fight pretty hard because of the current and are pretty big too

osmosis

Glad you got some bait..
as soon as the rivers go down they will be smashing upstream to make up for the missed time.

With the way it's looking we might all have some "sexually mature" (soft fleshed, worse quality) bait this year.

southside_10

I went to clackamette on Saturday to find the water still vey high and fast. The color is very good.

The usual "slots" where shad like to hang are not there. Just too much water going by. I fished for about 1/2 hr with no bites and did not see any nets flying. There"s a lot of grass in the water. I was below the garbage hole with about a dozen other boats.

Give it a week or so for the water to go down some.

Peace, Tom