A reply about fishing the powder river arm on Brownlee reservoir.

I had a PM sent to me tonight asking me if it would be feasible to fish the powder river arm on Brownlee reservoir, wanting to know if it would be worthwhile to get a oregon license yes if you’re wanting to fish the powder River arm and you are still Able to fish in Brownlee on the Idaho side if you like, as long as that you were on a floating device, such a boat or a dock .

Do you all of my friends that we used to fish with in Brownlee reservoir? I do not live there anymore. I am located in Texas. I wish I was there with you guys. It is hot and miserable here in Texas.

It has not been a real good season on Brownlee so far. The crappie are good sized, mostly 12-13" with some up to 16" but they have been scarce. Trolling plugs out on the Snake was productive earlier in the Spring but still inconsistent. It should get better after they recover from the long, drawn-out spawn and school up. Lots of water still coming in from both the Snake and Powder rivers.

Thank you for the report I miss being there that's for sure it is hotter than blazes here every day is a brown 115 with the heat index no site ending soon the water temperature is 80+ I do miss Richland especially when you have morning temperatures in the 50s.
And I heard that you were getting snow in the mountains yet but good deal at least the Oregon will have lots of water I hope fishing improves for you do you need anything slabman let me know.

Hotter than blazes is an understatement bro :Rofl

Thanks for the report. We'll be there July 11th - 14th.. We will be bringing the green lights to try some night fishing.

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Originally Posted by Capt Cormorant

Thanks for the report. We'll be there July 11th - 14th.. We will be bringing the green lights to try some night fishing.

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Good luck and have fun. Stop by the hitching post in town and say hi for me.
Bob.

Will do!

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Thanks for the report. We'll be there July 11th - 14th.. We will be bringing the green lights to try some night fishing.

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I think that's a very good idea. One of the local night fishermen caught some absolute monsters earlier this Spring. I'm not going to say how big because it sounds like bull but you'll probably hear about them. By mid-July the crappie should be schooling up. I'll try to get out there later this week and see what's up.

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I think that's a very good idea. One of the local night fishermen caught some absolute monsters earlier this Spring. I'm not going to say how big because it sounds like bull but you'll probably hear about them. By mid-July the crappie should be schooling up. I'll try to get out there later this week and see what's up.

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Were those big Springers bigger than 5”🤣

They were 10" er's, 5 up one side and 5 down the other.:Cowboy

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They were 10" er's, 5 up one side and 5 down the other.:Cowboy

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Is Louise please still for sale. And there’s not too many places there anymore. I know I wish we didn’t sell out. I sure do miss living there too hot here and humid. I haven’t been fishing here If you do, you have to wait until dark when the mosquitoes are flying then you have to spray yourself down Moonlight a couple of bombs to keep them off to you. I miss the cool nights that you have there. Stays about 80 all night. It never cools off the air conditioner runs around the clock.

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Is Louise please still for sale. And there’s not too many places there anymore. I know I wish we didn’t sell out. I sure do miss living there too hot here and humid. I haven’t been fishing here If you do, you have to wait until dark when the mosquitoes are flying then you have to spray yourself down Moonlight a couple of bombs to keep them off to you. I miss the cool nights that you have there. Stays about 80 all night. It never cools off the air conditioner runs around the clock.

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Yes, still on the market as far as I know. So is the Stanciu place. Maureen passed away in February.

Well, I put the boat in yesterday to give it a try. I wasn't expecting to tear them up but did expect to catch a couple 12" er's. I checked all my summer structure spots and could not find them. I found one mound of fish but they were 6 to 7.5". Salvaged the day by finding some bluegill in the back of a long cove but no crappie of any size.

Thanks for the update... I appreciate it! We are definitely looking forward to Tuesday..

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Yes, still on the market as far as I know. So is the Stanciu place. Maureen passed away in February.

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I'd love to have maureen place Little bit too much money. Know any place on the highway there I would imagine would go over $1 million now she's judging from the other place that we sold their two years ago it wound up selling for 400,000. When we bought it we paid about half of that.

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I'd love to have maureen place Little bit too much money. Know any place on the highway there I would imagine would go over $1 million now she's judging from the other place that we sold their two years ago it wound up selling for 400,000. When we bought it we paid about half of that.

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The Harrison house in town is also up for sale. No realtor, Mrs Harrison is trying to sell it herself. Turn left at the grange and it's on the west corner and across from Coble's RV park. Big corner lot with a big shop and other outbuildings.

Day 1 fishing no crappie.. Just small mouth bass and catfish.

Well we definitely didn't give up. After 4 days of fishing I caught 1 crappie, we saw tons of wild life. We even tried some green light night. Attachment 464572

This guy meet us at the boat ramp and was blocking my way to get my truck. I got within 5 feet of him before i realized what he was..
I had to shoo him over to the sage brush, he didn't rattle until he hit weeds. My wife and son enjoyed the trip and will be making a yearly event. We are going choose a different month next year.

We're missing 5 age classes due to unstable water levels in the Spring. It's a mystery where the big fish we were catching in May have went. They can't be all gone. Maybe deeper that we're used to fishing. I'm going to keep trying when I can.
Last week I killed 2 rattlers in my parking barn. One had no rattles, just a blunt tail.

What kind of rattle snake is that one in the image, you don’t have western diamondbacks there do ya ?

The one in the image looks like a great basin. At my place about 7 miles away they look more like the northern pacific. I've never seen one like the picture at my place.

Western Rattle snake or Prarie Rattle snake I call these " Baby Rattlers"... See I grew up In Pennsylvania and we had Timber Rattlers that were up to 60 inches in length.

Hotter n' blazes huh! Picked up a load of potato's in Texas years ago going to Valdosta Georgia. Over 100* in Texas but got hotter the farther east I got. Valdosta was about 110* and 90% humidity! another time I came out of Southern Cal with a load and used to be A big thermometer in Baker I think it was. Read 120* about 10pm! Got to a truck stop in Los Vegas and still pushing 120*. Ran the airconditioner all night and didn't help much at all. Used to go down to Miami Flordia now and then and the only way you could dry off down there in the summer was get into a shower. Then get out and start drying off and can't do it, sweat starts again to soon!

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Hotter n' blazes huh! Picked up a load of potato's in Texas years ago going to Valdosta Georgia. Over 100* in Texas but got hotter the farther east I got. Valdosta was about 110* and 90% humidity! another time I came out of Southern Cal with a load and used to be A big thermometer in Baker I think it was. Read 120* about 10pm! Got to a truck stop in Los Vegas and still pushing 120*. Ran the airconditioner all night and didn't help much at all. Used to go down to Miami Flordia now and then and the only way you could dry off down there in the summer was get into a shower. Then get out and start drying off and can't do it, sweat starts again to soon!

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I live in East Texas. It’s been over 100° here for over a month no lit up in sight.

[QUOTE=Oregon slabman;4385481]We're missing 5 age classes due to unstable water levels in the Spring. It's a mystery where the big fish we were catching in May have went. They can't be all gone. Maybe deeper that we're used to fishing. I'm going to keep trying when I can.
Last week I killed 2 rattlers in my parking barn. One had no rattles, just a blunt tail.[/QUOTE

When I lived there, we used to kill about 17 rattlesnakes in the hayfield next to us one or two on our place every year you just have to be careful and watch for them.

Found them

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Found them

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Hey, they look fantastic there old neighbor, makes me want to get a plane ticket nice looking perch in crappie. Were they down deep Gary. Did you get them on? Starting Sunday here we have 14 days in a row over 100° I see that you were getting hot weather there also..

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Found them

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Congratulation on your success

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Hotter n' blazes huh! Picked up a load of potato's in Texas years ago going to Valdosta Georgia. Over 100* in Texas but got hotter the farther east I got. Valdosta was about 110* and 90% humidity! another time I came out of Southern Cal with a load and used to be A big thermometer in Baker I think it was. Read 120* about 10pm! Got to a truck stop in Los Vegas and still pushing 120*. Ran the airconditioner all night and didn't help much at all. Used to go down to Miami Flordia now and then and the only way you could dry off down there in the summer was get into a shower. Then get out and start drying off and can't do it, sweat starts again to soon!

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Hottest I’ve ever been was at the IRAQ/Kuwait border at a truck stop we called NAVSTAR. Thermometer read 147 and I laid on bagged ice inside a reefer truck to cool off. My gun trucks AC was on the fritz.

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Hey, they look fantastic there old neighbor, makes me want to get a plane ticket nice looking perch in crappie. Were they down deep Gary. Did you get them on? Starting Sunday here we have 14 days in a row over 100° I see that you were getting hot weather there also..

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Not really deep by Brownlee standards, 18-24'. The perch were cruising above them. About the time I felt I was getting out of the zone the perch would hit.

The wife and I fished Friday and did real well on crappie and perch. I fished solo today and had my first good catch of bluegill and a great perch bite. Crappie were harder to come by today but I caught 2 of my bigger crappie of the year.

Fishing is terrible too hot to go 105 to 106 every day it’s getting really tiring down here don’t let up inside we got another for five days 104° weather and then a station in the hundreds in September. water temperature is over 85°. is the whole degree weather way over a month the trees are dying I mean literally everything around us is drying up. I never seen anything like it extreme fire danger here we’ve had a lot of fires in Texas already put in there every day someone’s got something going wrong or something.

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Originally Posted by Oregon slabman

The wife and I fished Friday and did real well on crappie and perch. I fished solo today and had my first good catch of bluegill and a great perch bite. Crappie were harder to come by today but I caught 2 of my bigger crappie of the year.

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Have you been down to Hells canyon in fish?

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Have you been down to Hells canyon in fish?

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No, having a lot of fun right here in the Powder Arm close to home. Had another good day today.

Nice fish! They are definitely putting on the feed bags right now. Locally the fish are bitting well! We will plan our trip a little bit better for the snake next year.

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Thank you for the report I miss being there that's for sure it is hotter than blazes here every day is a brown 115 with the heat index no site ending soon the water temperature is 80+ I do miss Richland especially when you have morning temperatures in the 50s.
And I heard that you were getting snow in the mountains yet but good deal at least the Oregon will have lots of water I hope fishing improves for you do you need anything slabman let me know.

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What I really found bad in Texas beside the heat was the humidity! Make 100* feel like 150*!