Upper Col.
'Black Bear Lodge'

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In Forks

In Montesano

The Hoh
near Forks

The Wynoochee
near Black Creek

Klickitat
'The Steelhead
Ranch'

Klickitat
@Pitt

see below

Closed Oct 31

see below

Yakima Report Report

Olympic

Peninsula

To schedule your trip, call 509.773-3460



Hatchery Steel

1/24/11 - Good, consistent action so far this early season. It's been 2 to 1 hatchery to wild, with some really nice 10-13 lb chrome hatchery fish and a few bigger wild ones that proved tough to land. Now is the time, the days are getting longer and there should be a big push of fish with all this rain.Best nymphs: yarn bugs and beads Best Swing bugs: the Kwikfish, big Intruders

1/11/11 - Everything is stable.....Clarity on the Hoh was 1ft on Sunday and 3 ft today.

1/6/11 - Dropping and clearing as we speak. The rivers in Forks have been fishing goood just as the SW Washington rivers have. hatchery brats at about 85 and the remainder wild ones.

12/31/11 - Dropping and clearing... should be great fishing.

12/28/11 - Mega Precipitation has the rivers up right now - Looks like this coming Saturday things will be getting better ...

12/20/11 Hatchery Brats are swimming through and some wild ones as well - Definitely in packs/like hungry wolves- Great fishing today under the bobber out in Forks; photos coming! The numbers today were AWESOME.

Upper Columbia
(Open year round)

and

Kettle
(Opens June 1)

Here is a recent article from Dick Olson about his visit to Black Bear Lodge on the UC

Here is another from Pat Burdick and his visit to Black Bear Lodge on the UC

1/11/12

No actual fishing report for the past week. Water levels are pretty much the same as they were last week with flows at the boundary ranging between 80-100K and the lake level hovering around 1279-1281.

1/6/12

Fishing continues to be good on the UC. Roosevelt Lake level is hovering around 1280ft while the flow at the international border is ranging from 70-100K daily. Utilizing various sinking lines based on depth and flow for the arsenal is a good idea. Best line recently - 150 Gr 24 foot head. Best flies - #6 Bow River Bugger, #8 and 10 Black pearl bugger.

12/28/2011 - Reasonable swing fishing - Small black bugger and 10 feet of T-14 yielded a handful of Rainbow trout in 3 hours of fishing. Lost one real big fish ... Estimated 5-6 pounds / 24 inches. Photo'd one fish -

Our lodge opens up again Feb 2012! 2011 was an awesome year for us throughout the state including here at the new lodge.

Methow/Wenatchee/Entiat are Closed See below

WDFW has decided to propose that the upper Columbia River from Rock Island Dam to Chief Joseph Dam, including the Wenatchee, Icicle, Entiat, and Methow Rivers be closed to steelhead fishing starting Jan 2nd, 2012. The reason for the closure is a fast approaching incidental take limit on natural origin steelhead.

The run is slightly lower than last year and the number of natural origin fish higher as well. Those two facts coupled with an increasing angler effort this year, especially on the mainstem Columbia, all contribute to higher natural origin impacts. We have not reached our maximum take as yet in the fishery above Wells Dam and there is a possibility that we could reopen the fishery at a later date. We will make that decision after careful analysis of the fishery data collected so far

In addition, the whitefish season on the Entiat, Methow, and Wenatchee Rivers will also be proposed for closure on Jan 2nd. However, if the decision is made to reopen the steelhead fishery at a later date, areas that were previously closed to whitefish, will reopen as well

The impact of the triploid rainbows on the steelhead fishery below Chief Joseph Dam has also been taken into account in our analysis. Each month, there has been an adjustment to the number of adipose present steelhead that were reported released. Even with that monthly adjustment, there were still a higher number of natural origin impacts due to the fishery.

Please contact me if you have any other questions and keep a close eye on our website for any future changes.

Thanks. Bob

Bob Jateff -WDFW District Six Fish Biologist 20268 Hwy 20 Twisp, WA 98856

Closed until June of 2012