Lower Granite Fishing

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.

Lower granite fishing.

04 little goose dam to lower granite dam. Lower granite lake is a reservoir located just 12 7 miles from pullman in whitman county in the state of washington united states near mayview wa. 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. Passage routes operated for downstream migrating fish are the spillway a spillway weir and a juvenile bypass system.

The last couple years we have trapped a higher percent of the fall chinook salmon broodstock early in the run. Lower granite dam is part of the columbia river basin system of dams built and. I have hooked four and landed 2 which i have heard is good for a rookie steelheader. 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.

Fishermen will find a variety of fish including crappie walleye largemouth bass smallmouth bass brown trout and rainbow trout here. 4 16 2018 view reports charts data 05 lower granite dam to interstate bridge. I have been fishing the snake river near lower granite dam for steelhead with a jig and shrimp. 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.

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. The 2 i landed wer. 2020 steelhead count from july 1 to december 31 2020 to view winter passage at bonneville dam go to. Lower granite dam can divert a portion or all of the fish swimming up the fish ladder into a trap.

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. Northwest snake river fishing reports. Jacks are not included in the count.