Sport Fishing Blog

Fishing for Sockeye in the Brewster Pool in Brewster Washington is really taking off. Today we had two boats limit on 24 sockeye each by 7am. We are fishing 8 inch dodgers with small smile blade rigs 14-16 inches behind our dodgers. Most fish today were found at around the 15-20 foot mark in the…

Last week we opened up our Upper Columbia Summer Sockeye and Chinook season. We are currently fishing near the town of Brewster, Washington. This is a pilgrimage we have made going on 10 years now, and it has become our second home during the summer. July 1st is always a day we look forward to…

Its May and that means the walleye fishing at Salmon Falls Creek Reservoir in Southern Idaho is starting to heat up.  Only a few miles from the Nevada State line south of Twin Falls, ID Salmon Falls Creek Reservoir offers some of Idaho’s best walleye fishing.  May and June are some of the best months…

The water is up and the Spring sturgeon bite is on for our Idaho Sturgeon fishing trips.  Our two best locations this time of year are the CJ Strike/King Hill area, and our Hells Canyon area.  As the water starts to warm in the spring and the flows are high our sturgeon begin to make…

Spring is a special time for us, winter is gone, waters are warming, baseball is being played, and most of all we return to salmon fishing.  Spring Chinook fishing is our unofficial new year, as it signals the start of our 7 months of salmon fishing.  We get our first shot at these incredible fish…

Barry started our Fall Chinook season here at home on the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater Rivers last week and fishing was phenomenal! This season is just getting started and the fishing should get even better the next two weeks.  We are trolling superbaits and spinners in this fishery and as more fish show…

The days are getting shorter, hunting seasons are open, and temperatures are dropping. This means one of the best times of year to chase sturgeon is upon us. Fall is one of the absolute best times of year to catch sturgeon as they feed heavily to stock up on critical fat reserves that will get…

On Friday Idaho Fish and Game announced that on August 5th, 2022 the State Catch and Release Record had been broken. This amazing fish measuring 10’4” and was caught by Jones Sport Fishing customers Greg and Angie Poulsen who were on board Brett Jones’s boat on CJ Strike Reservoir. This is the second catch and…

We have been on the Upper Columbia River fishing Sockeye and Summer Chinook since it opened on July 1st. Fishing has been absolutely amazing, and we are just now starting to see the bulk of the Sockeye run hit the Brewster area. Due to a later than normal arrival of summer we have been spending…

The month of July will find us on the Upper Columbia River chasing summer Chinook and Sockeye. This is such a great opportunity as we have the best limits of the year. 2 adult chinook in addition to 2 sockeye is our daily limit. We often catch both Chinook and Sockeye on these trips, and…

Sitting here typing this email the Clearwater is definitely blown out, but it gives me a chance to give everyone an update on the awesome fishing we have been experiencing. Over the past month we have been having one of the best Spring Chinook salmon seasons of recent memory. We are filling our boats with…

We have been home from the Oregon coast now for about 10 days and in that time we have spent some great days fishing for Fall Chinook on the Clearwater and Snake Rivers out of Lewiston, Idaho. Although we love to fish in Astoria it just doesn’t quite measure up to our local fisheries and…