6-13 SS NW Fish Report

 Hey anglers, David Sparks with Sportsmen’s Spotlight and today Rachel Bare has the Northwest fishing report. In South Central Washington, June 16  is actually the start of fishing for summer Chinook salmon up to the Priest Rapids Dam. Just make sure you know that the daily limit is six hatchery fish and up to two can be adult hatchery Chinook. By mid June Shad should reach the McNary and Ice Harbor Dam in numbers that are going to actually be pretty good for fishing. Small mouth bass and walleye fishing should improve in the Columbia and Snake Rivers as those waters get warmer. We had an angler from Richland recently report an 18 lbs. 4 oz. Walleye out of McNary. In North Central Washington, in Okanogan County lakes that are worth fishing in June are the Aeneas near 10 Tonasket they are actually producing rainbow and brown trout that are up to 18 inches long. Bass and Walleye fishing should be heating up this month in the usual 3 waters in the basin, Banks Lake, Potholes Reservoir and Moses Lake. There have been some reports for some really nice smallmouth and largemouth bass in those areas. In Southeast Oregon crappie fishing has been decent on the Owyhee Reservoir, pretty good numbers being reported of 8 to 10 inch crappie and as far as the snake River goes above the Brownlee Reservoir, fishing there is still kind of slow for catfish and smallmouth bass. Hopefully as runoff starts to slow down and river levels are dropping we will get better reports off the Snake.