Lower Granite Fishing

Lower granite lock and dam is a concrete gravity run of the river dam in the northwest united states on the lower snake river in southeastern washington it bridges whitman and garfield counties.

Lower granite fishing.

04 little goose dam to lower granite dam. 2020 steelhead count from july 1 to december 31 2020 to view winter passage at bonneville dam go to. Lower granite dam has one fish ladder with entrances on both shores to provide a passage route for upstream migrating fish including adult salmon and steelhead lamprey shad and others. Corps of engineers fish reporting site dam date of count daily count total to date in 2020 total to date in 2019 5 year average total count to date bonneville oct 1 446 104 286 66 091 132 844 lower granite oct 1 1 623 28 838 12 500 33 485 counts include wild and hatchery origin fish.

Northwest snake river fishing reports. I have hooked four and landed 2 which i have heard is good for a rookie steelheader. 2020 adult chinook salmon count from august 1 to december 15 2020 dam date of count daily adult count total to date in 2020 total to date in 2019 5 year average total count to date bonneville oct 1 2 321 362 520 249 906 400 704 lower granite oct 1 154 22 703 13 335 26 210 counts include both hatchery and wild origin adults. A lot of work and research goes on at lower granite dam so we will be giving updates throughout the year to help you understand some of the work we are doing and what we are learning.

The daily bag limit has been changed to two steelhead per day on the snake river from lower granite dam upstream to the washington oregon state line as well as on the grande ronde river from its. The 2 i landed wer. 4 16 2018 view reports charts data 05 lower granite dam to interstate bridge. Jacks are not included in the count.

Passage routes operated for downstream migrating fish are the spillway a spillway weir and a juvenile bypass system. Lower granite dam can divert a portion or all of the fish swimming up the fish ladder into a trap. Once in the trap we can sort out the fall chinook salmon we want to keep for broodstock and allow the others to continue on upstream. Fish trapping season is underway and our crew is working hard with other agencies at lower granite dam to collect information on adult and juvenile salmon and steelhead.

I have been fishing the snake river near lower granite dam for steelhead with a jig and shrimp. Lower granite dam is part of the columbia river basin system of dams built and. Fishermen will find a variety of fish including crappie walleye largemouth bass smallmouth bass brown trout and rainbow trout here.