Columbia in Late June

I was wondering if anyone has had some recent luck out there on the Columbia.  I tried yesterday but could not get into the fish.  I know the sockeye are running, as are some chinook and steelhead.  I was thinking of trying again on Sunday, but would like some good news for inspiration.  Otherwise, I'm just going to fish for bass, which is certainly fun, but doesn't put food on the table.

I've been plunking it pretty hard but its not producing much yet. Seeing a few chinook and steelhead here and there. Sockeye are doing a pretty good job of stripping baits but not getting hooked.

I went out to Davis Bar yesterday afternoon and while my fish finder told me there were fish hanging out from 14 to 26 ft, I sure as hell never saw one.  I was fishing reinforced kokanee gear.  I am not giving up though.  There are tens of thousand fish in the river, eventually one will bite.  Audio books help definitely help get through the slow times. 

Besides, enjoying a lovely evening on the river, I got to see the Vancouver PD handcuff a crazy, drunk chick and write a few other citations.  While loading my car there were a few high schools kids racing down the road.  Only one of them made the turn though.  The other one ended up upside down.  No one got hurt, which is good, but it is going to be hard for the kid to explain why he has no windshield and his roof is caved in.   

I went out to Davis Bar yesterday afternoon and while my fish finder told me there were fish hanging out from 14 to 26 ft, I sure as hell never saw one.  I was fishing reinforced kokanee gear.  I am not giving up though.  There are tens of thousand fish in the river, eventually one will bite.  Audio books help definitely help get through the slow times. 

Besides, enjoying a lovely evening on the river, I got to see the Vancouver PD handcuff a crazy, drunk chick and write a few other citations.  While loading my car there were a few high schools kids racing down the road.  Only one of them made the turn though.  The other one ended up upside down.  No one got hurt, which is good, but it is going to be hard for the kid to explain why he has no windshield and his roof is caved in.   

Nice neighbor hood you were dropping in.

Wow.  I honestly think that the producers of the fast and the furious movies should be on the hook for every street racing accident. 

I went out to Davis Bar yesterday afternoon and while my fish finder told me there were fish hanging out from 14 to 26 ft, I sure as hell never saw one.  I was fishing reinforced kokanee gear.  I am not giving up though.  There are tens of thousand fish in the river, eventually one will bite.  Audio books help definitely help get through the slow times. 

Besides, enjoying a lovely evening on the river, I got to see the Vancouver PD handcuff a crazy, drunk chick and write a few other citations.  While loading my car there were a few high schools kids racing down the road.  Only one of them made the turn though.  The other one ended up upside down.  No one got hurt, which is good, but it is going to be hard for the kid to explain why he has no windshield and his roof is caved in.   

Drag racing a street with a sharp corner at the end.  This is where I failed as a Middle School Science Teacher. Alas!

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Thanks for the reports guys. I need to be more patient. I must have gotten lucky with a sockeye last year.  No nibbles, it just swallowed the prawn spinner.  I'll think about rerigging Kokanee gear Nate.  Good idea.  Might need to up the hook size.

Small spin-n-glows with the tail of a coon shrimp tied on an eggloop have done well for sockeye off the bank for me in previous years.

Small spin-n-glows with the tail of a coon shrimp tied on an eggloop have done well for sockeye off the bank for me in previous years.

How small and where on the bank? If Sockeye are as tasty as Kokanee I really want to catch some...

Small spin-n-glows with the tail of a coon shrimp tied on an eggloop have done well for sockeye off the bank for me in previous years.

How small and where on the bank? If Sockeye are as tasty as Kokanee I really want to catch some...

 Sockeye taste as good or better IMHO and smoke up great.

sockeye are the fillet mignon of the salmonoids. if somebody has a handle on catching these could u post a pic of ur rig?