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.