The Columbia River Tanner Creek bite may have slowed down quite a bit but the bites that have been happening over the last week have been BIG BITES. Chinook have been caught over the last week in the range of upper thirties and lower forties. Here's the one Charles helped me land this Sunday October 12, 2008.

Northwest Fishing Tales

Fishing Below Tanner Creek - Columbia River

Fishing on the Columbia River below Tanner Creek has begun to come to a slow. There are still some bright chrome Chinooks and Cohos to be caught be the bite has slowed down considerably.

This year it seemed fish were caught either jigging darts, or pitching #5 home-made lures & blue foxes. The colors normally fished are green with silver blades, reds with silver/copper blades or oranges/copper with silver blades but most were caught on purple with silver blades and black with a yellow tipped silver blades.

Also this area has lots of Smallies averaging 1/2 lb to 2 lbs with an occasional 3-5 lb being caught.











With the slowing down in salmon fishing, the crowd is starting to shift to the regular sturgeon fishermen. It seems to be mostly over-sized
being caught right now but with the change of the rainy and cold weather the bite should increase for keepers to be caught.

Good luck and hope you land a big one.

Generation-to-Generation Fishing

Aloha. I am the creator of this blog site and have been an avid angler fishing all across this great nation. I believe that fishing is an art and skill passed on from generation-to-generation.

I have learned alot from the older generation as well as the younger generation from how, when, where, and even what to use for fishing. My point to all you avid anglers is why spend all your time trying to figure out how to fish an area or for a specific type of fish when the knowledge is already out there just waiting for us to ask.