Fishing Forum

First time running the boat below Swan. Launched right at sunrise below the dam aimed mostly at catching sturgeon but had bass and catfish gear too. The water is very high, full of lots of debris. First spot produced nothing so we moved on. We had our sturgeon rods out at the second spot but it also was producing nothing so Jo suggested I flip the fish finder on for a second and after a minute a few fish showed up. Jo decided to worm up one of our spinning rods and drop it off the side of the boat. About a minute after that the rod hits and we both are like "what!?!" we have three sturgeon rods out and this sturgeon decides to hit the spinning rod with a worm on it directly under the boat. We did our best and managed to keep it on long enough for it to jump next to the boat (about 5ft estimate give or take) and eventually it of course broke our line. The rest of the day consisted of a lot of absolutely nothing. Not a fish of any kind. Tried sturgeon, bass, and catfish and not a dang thing. This combined with breaking a hook off in a sturgeon, and the day (except the nice weather) sucked. Hopefully the next time out will be a little more productive. I also attached a picture of Jo right after that happened. It's pretty funny and basically illustrates our mood at the time. Hope the rest of you made better use of the beautiful day we had.
[signature]

I was fishing about 25 miles downstream from you yesterday. The river sure was muddy and full of junk down where I was. I note on the Idaho Power gauge that the water has gone up almost 3 feet in the last 24 hours. I did manage one 14" smallmouth on a plastic creature bait. It was in about 10' of water. I talked with a fishing friend there and he also got only one smallie. His came on a crankbait. With the nice weather there were quite a bunch of fishermen out on the river.
[signature]

i was fishing on the upper boat launch from the dock there was a crap ton of boat traffic so i was really expecting to get anything tried plastics and some slow bump and go crank baits, one guy putting in said they were catching bass off green crankbaits by bouncing them off rocks. Didn't get a single bite all day.
[signature]

for some reason sturgeon love nightcrawlers ! we hooked a bunch on accident last year at stike between crane falls and loveridge bridge
[signature]