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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: hhack on May 03, 2021, 05:55:08 PM

Title: Drano
Post by: hhack on May 03, 2021, 05:55:08 PM: Any buddy slaying in toilet bowl?
Title: Re: Drano
Post by: Skywagon_185 on May 03, 2021, 06:46:16 PM: Could have walked across the toilet bowl on boats Saturday!!! Rigs parked all the way to the tunnel on the east end of the lake!!!!! Talk about COMBAT fishing!!
Title: Re: Drano
Post by: jeffitz on May 03, 2021, 07:18:11 PM: Quote from: Skywagon_185 on May 03, 2021, 06:46:16 PM
Could have walked across the toilet bowl on boats Saturday!!! Rigs parked all the way to the tunnel on the east end of the lake!!!!! Talk about COMBAT fishing!!

Did the Infantry catch any fish?
Title: Re: Drano
Post by: Magnum_Willys on May 03, 2021, 08:53:34 PM: Skamania County are such fools not to expand parking on that launch. Highway parking for boat trailers? Ridiculous. Dump a 1000 loads of rock and make some room. 50 years overdue. Caught my first salmon there - about 55 years ago.
Title: Re: Drano
Post by: huntnnw on May 03, 2021, 10:08:21 PM: Quote from: Magnum_Willys on May 03, 2021, 08:53:34 PM
Skamania County are such fools not to expand parking on that launch. Highway parking for boat trailers? Ridiculous. Dump a 1000 loads of rock and make some room. 50 years overdue. Caught my first salmon there - about 55 years ago.

:yeah: stupid! place is a cluster %$# and long overdue to make some changes. Rigs being towed constantly and near miss wrecks daily. Then you have to drive down highway if you are parked on highway to get trailer turned around
Title: Re: Drano
Post by: carpsniperg2 on May 03, 2021, 10:38:17 PM: I wont fish it. I fish for fun and to relax. Nothing relaxing about that kind of fishing and bumper boats.
Title: Re: Drano
Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on May 04, 2021, 09:59:33 AM: That fishery should be youth and over 65 type fishery. No Guides! I'm always in awe to think how much money is going around and down that Toilet Bowl fishery. It does make for good intertainment at times................... :chuckle:
Title: Re: Drano
Post by: 2MANY on May 04, 2021, 10:12:36 AM: Congrats WDFW.

This is your idea of opportunity??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Drano
Post by: dilleytech on May 04, 2021, 10:13:39 AM: Yes there’s lots of fish being caught. And yes they need to work on the launch. You would think they could at least afford to paint some fresh lines for the parking spots every year with all those launch passes they sell. At least they were cracking down on people illegally parked. I witness 3 vehicles getting towed Thursday and Friday.
Title: Re: Drano
Post by: dilleytech on May 04, 2021, 10:15:13 AM: 3:40 on a Sunday after half the people left. Watched for 5 minutes saw a few fish caught and a couple boat collisions.
Title: Re: Drano
Post by: jeffitz on May 04, 2021, 11:32:04 AM: Cluster for sure but i have never seen springer action like that place - sat in the crane all last spring watching hundreds of fish be caught while we were workin on the new RR bridge - painful.
Title: Re: Drano
Post by: Jake Dogfish on May 04, 2021, 11:36:47 AM: Another candidate for no gas motors.
Title: Re: Drano
Post by: hhack on May 04, 2021, 12:46:46 PM: Wish there were no guides anywhere on the Columbia lol.
Title: Re: Drano
Post by: dilleytech on May 04, 2021, 01:02:36 PM: Quote from: jeffitz on May 04, 2021, 11:32:04 AM
Cluster for sure but i have never seen springer action like that place - sat in the crane all last spring watching hundreds of fish be caught while we were workin on the new RR bridge - painful.
Any idea when they will get those pillars out of the water they were using to put in the new bridge?
Title: Re: Drano
Post by: RC on May 04, 2021, 02:11:03 PM: Is it any less crowded during the week?
Title: Re: Drano
Post by: jeffitz on May 04, 2021, 02:23:05 PM: Yes this summer and fall we will demo all old concrete bridge piers and wingwalls then pull all steel pile. It will tough to tell there was ever an old bridge there when finished.
Title: Re: Drano
Post by: Stein on May 04, 2021, 05:14:04 PM: If it's open for salmon and there are any fish being caught, plan on it being a zoo. It's the new normal.
Title: Re: Drano
Post by: deerlick on May 04, 2021, 09:09:57 PM: Tomorrow would be great
Title: Re: Drano
Post by: dilleytech on May 05, 2021, 06:12:01 AM: Quote from: RC on May 04, 2021, 02:11:03 PM
Is it any less crowded during the week?

No not really. Specially not this last week. On a normal decent run where the fishing is spread out over a month and a half it’s not as bad. Specially on weekdays but weekends are always a joke.
Title: Re: Drano
Post by: RC on May 10, 2021, 08:43:12 AM: Any reports from over the weekend? Got an invite to fish it tomorrow, so just checking on how it was. Just as crowded as the prior weekend?
Title: Re: Drano
Post by: Blacktail seeker on May 10, 2021, 08:56:35 AM: Drano closed 5/4! :(
Title: Re: Drano
Post by: RC on May 10, 2021, 09:19:14 AM: Well, crap! Guess we're not going tomorrow. :(
Title: Re: Drano
Post by: allen on May 12, 2021, 05:00:20 PM: Reopens tomorrow