Does anyone fish for them down in the Columbia? If you were going to target them, how many could you catch per day? Just curious if it is worth it to try and fish for them. You can get $4-$5 a piece out of them and $100 if you get a tagged one. Any information you guys have would help me out. Hey I'm 18 and the idea of fishing for money sounds great!

~ Dr Pepper

Squawfish are very easy to catch, but you have to catch a couple hundred before you get that much for them and they have to be a certain size before they count. Several friends have tried to cash in on the squawfish bounty but gave up because it was more of a pain than it was worth, they'd rather catch salmon or steelhead than weed through all the small squawfish it took to make any money.

The state paid a couple of folks over 30 grand in bounties last year....It does make you wonder

They used to do the same thing with dolly varden

Season starts April 29 below Bonneville Dam.
$4 for the first 100
$5 101-400
$6 401-up
Best baits, chicken liver, cheese and worms.
Best time to fish is June and July when they are spawning. pikeminnow.org

used to catch them in northern idaho as a kid at my uncles house, would let them go until they showed me whats up with these fish. sounds like it might be interesting to go do that bounty on the colombia. Ben

I think I smell an F5 coming on. The snoopy rod squawfish slaughter!

Thanks for all the info guys. Does anyone know how many 9"+ you can catch per day if you were to target them?

~ Dr Pepper

Probably not enough to pay for a trip from Sequim.