NorthWest Kayak Anglers
Regional Discussions => Oregon Kayak Fishing => Topic started by: tknight on January 01, 2017, 10:36:20 AM
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Anyone fished the Multnomah channel for walleye? I have caught a few before but not at this location. Anyone want to go out on a weekend sometime soon?
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Walleye
These Midwest favorites are quite well-established in the nearby Columbia River. In the Willamette mainstem, they are only occasionally caught and rarely targeted. However, there are good numbers of walleye in Multnomah Channel, where they feed on abundant schools of small yellow perch and other forage.
http://www.bestfishinginamerica.com/or-willamette-river-multnomah-channel-fishing.html (http://www.bestfishinginamerica.com/or-willamette-river-multnomah-channel-fishing.html)
Interesting...
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I fished for them once last summer during the HOW event. No one caught any walleye and only a few small bass were caught but I know they are in there. My neighbor across the street fishes there all the time for them from his power boat. He usually goes in the late summer though. I'm not sure how or where to target them this time of year.
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I have never tried fishing for them in the winter but the last few summers I have fished Mult. Channel and the Gilbert for them with a little success. It seems like most people target them from late spring through early fall in these locations. I always use a worm harness and bottom walker with smile blades but I have seen people catch them jigging and on plugs. I posted this last summer:
http://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=17952.msg193197#msg193197
I don't know if it is possible to catch them in the winter but I would love to hear your report. The only worry I would have is the amount of current in the channel during the winter high flows. The current in the channel exceeds that in most parts of the lower Willamette and would make it hard to run a bottom walker. With a lot of rain and snowmelt it might even get somewhat treacherous and hard to travel around without a shuttle.
Good luck if you try and give a word about your experience.
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Thank you all for your advice!
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Hey tknight, you end up having any success for winter walleye out in the channel? Resurrecting an old thread, but it's on topic for me. I have a buddy with a floating home on the channel, so convenience for doing some fishing during the NFL / bowl games we don't care about the next few weeks (before flows come up too much) is high.