06-08-2007, 03:13 PM
What a trip.....Great fun, we ended up with 29 Sturgeon on our boat, 6 keepers. Not bad for the first time. Boy do they put up a fight. Fished anywhere from 65 to 6 feet. Most coming from 20-24'. Big water the Columbia, launched at John Day ramp...very nice. Got kinda used to fishing tides/heavy current for the first time. Between us and the other 2 boats the total boated was around 180.
As far as Brownlee goes, we hit that on Friday on the way back after the Mem. weekend. 92 degrees! We fished about 8 hours just where the Powder river arm meets the main lake and boated 61 SM, 5 slabs and 1 cat during the night. Wish we could have caught more cats, but maybe down by Farewell would have been better for them. We stopped there and some folks were cleaning 6 really nice ones. The SM went from 1-2.5 lbs. That was a blast, just threw plastic tails tipped with a crawler, and they were hungry. We launched at Hewitt park out of Richland (nice facility, 3 ramps, showers, cleaning station, campgrounds).
Wanted to thank everybody for the tips/advice on Brownlee, looks to be quite the fishery. Hopefully we can return sometime.
Thanks again MM
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As far as Brownlee goes, we hit that on Friday on the way back after the Mem. weekend. 92 degrees! We fished about 8 hours just where the Powder river arm meets the main lake and boated 61 SM, 5 slabs and 1 cat during the night. Wish we could have caught more cats, but maybe down by Farewell would have been better for them. We stopped there and some folks were cleaning 6 really nice ones. The SM went from 1-2.5 lbs. That was a blast, just threw plastic tails tipped with a crawler, and they were hungry. We launched at Hewitt park out of Richland (nice facility, 3 ramps, showers, cleaning station, campgrounds).
Wanted to thank everybody for the tips/advice on Brownlee, looks to be quite the fishery. Hopefully we can return sometime.
Thanks again MM
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