Make a Subtle Point
Using map building (such as Auto Chart) to locate key contour changes that define the “spot-on-the-spot” I want to look at a key river smallmouth…
Category: Columbia River Master Series
A series covering all the major pools of the Columbia River, season by season.
5 Patterns for Early Summer Bass on the Columbia River
Post-Spawn Main River Feeders Some smallmouth and a few largemouth will get up in the main stem of the Columbia and begin feeding. These are…
Early Spring at Crow Butte
Clark, October 20, 1805 … A cool morning wind S. W. we concluded to delay untill after brackfast which we were obliged to make on…
Smallmouth on the Inside Edge
First of all, we need to start off with a little myth-busting. When it’s hot and sunny and it’s two o’clock in the afternoon –…
Finding and Fishing Rock Piles on the River
From a recent summertime outing on the Columbia River, I go through a basic approach to locating and fishing offshore rock piles using side imaging…
When Google Earth Doesn’t Work
We’ve spent a lot of time on GOA looking at all of the ways to utilize Google Earth, and while it is a great tool,…
5 Things You Should Be Using on the River This Summer
Soft Plastic Jerkbait Ok, sure, I think the Zoom Super Fluke is the number one option here, but that doesn’t mean it’s the only option.…
How to Read and Understand River Levels on the Columbia – Part II
We laid out some of the basics for reading water levels on the Columbia in Part 1. Part II gets into some more advanced concepts.…
How to Read and Understand River Levels on the Columbia – Part 1
The Columbia River, despite having been “tamed” by the dams is still a dynamic river. Even those sections that seem more “lake-like” are still very…
“Random” Rock Piles
I used to believe in “random” rock piles too. I spent years pussy footing around on trolling motor only through all the backwater sloughs, bays,…
Reid and Biagi Run Away with ABA Washington East Opener
Robert Reid and Donny Biagi are both relatives of the bass fishing Nixon family – Larry, Leland, and Paul to name a few. Donny’s older…
Columbia River: Dealing with Springtime Run Off
Let’s just start this off with the bad news. There is nothing more difficult in bass fishing than trying to catch them in muddy, cold…
Introducing the Columbia River Master Series
It's with a great deal of respect that I'm taking this on. I suspect that this is the first and only in depth chronicling of the Columbia River as a …