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Gannon
Hello, wanted to start a thread about fish caught around St.Helens, share your stories from this year! Got skunked on winter steelhead this year, but hoping for a springer or my "one" sturgen. Heard some springers were pulled out, time to fish.
Bass- If you launch from the dock at the St Helens marina there is a $5 fee(for the parking) not sure about the other ones in the area but I think they all have a small fee. Have you tried fishing in the Multnomah channel for sturgeon, that's where I do most of my fishing for them because Sauvie's allows me to bank fish for them without worrying about casting a mile. There's some great holes both up and down the channel from the gilbert river boat launch but you do need the sauvie island parking pass($7 a day or $22 a year)I have never fished that area but I keep meaning to get my kayak up there to check it out. Usually I like to fish for sturgeon and bass (once the water warms a bit). Does anyone know if the bass fishing is decent in that area? Looks like it might be good around the island, the docks and down into MC. Is the launch at Grey Cliffs public? Is there a fee?
Bass- If you launch from the dock at the St Helens marina there is a $5 fee(for the parking) not sure about the other ones in the area but I think they all have a small fee. Have you tried fishing in the Multnomah channel for sturgeon, that's where I do most of my fishing for them because Sauvie's allows me to bank fish for them without worrying about casting a mile. There's some great holes both up and down the channel from the gilbert river boat launch but you do need the sauvie island parking pass($7 a day or $22 a year)
Is there any place to plunk on the Multnomah Channel?You are so close to the lower multnomah channel that you ought to give that a go. Springer fishing is just getting started in there. Anchoring up can be productive as well as trolling.
Thanx HHM. Gonna give that a try. Nice to hear of a shore possibility for Walleye!As you travel north on hwy 30 just before you enter scappoose you will see a shell station on your right, turn right on the next road, travel around 2 miles until you see a bridge the road goes under, just before that you will see a big dirt turn out on the left.. Park there. Cross the road and you will come to a very worn trail that leads up and over the old road bed and continue on this path until you come to a worn bank side location, if you see 65 thousand beer cans and a couple pounds of condoms and you are there. Theres trees and pilings in the river so its a technical location to work. The springers run about 20 ft out, the walleye and bass are further out-