Our keeper sturgeon fishing trips are among our clients favorite Columbia River Fishing Adventures and we aim to please. Only in this case you get the privilege of actually catching the fish yourself rather than buying online or even worse, standing in line at the grocery store. Basically you’ll be getting a huge bargain. A seat on our boat is $200 for a day trip. The average cost for sturgeon is around $24 a pound. The meat is firm unlike other bottom fish that tend to get mushy. Sturgeon is a delicate white meat that has a mild flavor.
This is still a sizable amount of meat to bring home for the freezer and well worth the price of the trip. These fish are smaller than a mature sturgeon at 3-4 ft. Sturgeon is a pretty good eating fish, so many of our clients like to catch a few for us to cut up and send home with them. This section of the river offers keeper sturgeon fishing as well as trophy class. The Columbia River Gorge is probably one for the best sturgeon fishing destinations on the Columbia. If you choose to join us on this fishing adventure we hope you have plenty of room in the freezer because you’ll be filling it up with a decent amount of sturgeon and spring chinook. When the states allow it, we like to fish both species and go after chinook salmon and sturgeon which offers two times the limits and the fun.
Chinook salmon follow the smelt and shad as they enter the river system. The mouth of Washougal on the Washington side right close by is also a known spot to catch these behemoths.Īnother great thing about the spring sturgeon season is that there are Spring chinook in the river at the same time. The mouth of the Sandy is another great holding spot as the smelt bring the Sturgeon in. Among our favorite to spots in the lower is the Willamette where some real monsters hang out. The From Astoria to the mouth of the Cowlitz and Willamette in the lower sections sturgeon look to intercept smelt heading to the Cowlitz and Willamette rivers. Sturgeon love feast on these fish as they work their way up the Columbia to the many diverse estuaries the Columbia has to offer. Sturgeon begin their journey to the spawning grounds of the Columbia Rivers vast array of bait fish such as shad and candle fish. As the spring thaw brings fresh runoff from the Cascade mountains the Columbia River renews the cycle of life and becomes a haven of activity.
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