Washington Guided Fishing Trips

About Columbia River Fishing Guide

NOW booking for Summer Steelhead and Fall Chinook Washington Fishing Trips! We are and will be hooking a TON of these incredible fish! These fish are always fresh and full of fight. If you want to reserve a spot for while the action is HOT, call me now! 360-910-6630.

Columbia River Fishing Guides offer some of the best Washington Sturgeon, Walleye, Coho Salmon and King Salmon Guided Washington Fishing Trips in the lower 48 states, on the Columbia river (located in Oregon and Washington) and its tributaries. So come take a trip with the COLUMBIA RIVER FISHING GUIDE for a Washington Fishing Adventures of a Lifetime. We offer Washington fishing trips on the Mighty Columbia River for Salmon Fishing, Steelhead Fishing, Sturgeon Fishing, Shad & Walleye Fishing or on nearby Lake Merwin for landlocked Kokanee Sockeye Salmon Fishing. The COLUMBIA RIVER FISHING GUIDE also offers guided Washington fishing on the Lewis River and Cowlitz River in Southwest Washington and the Willamette River in Portland Oregon . We fish the Columbia River and all the tributaries from the Bonneville Dam to Buoy 10 near Astoria Oregon where the Columbia River flows into the Pacific Ocean. Buoy Ten is one of the Hottest fisheries in the world. Buoy 10 Fishing Guides offer a fishing Experience you'll always remember.

If high energy, fast action Salmon Fishing is what you're looking for, a guided trip with the COLUMBIA RIVER FISHING GUIDE to Buoy 10 is how you'll find it. Our trips are also available for Trophy Sturgeon Fishing and Keeper Sturgeon Fishing on the Columbia River and Bonneville Dam. We book our trips for Sturgeon Fishing, Shad & Walleye Fishing, Coho Salmon Fishing, Fall and Spring Chinook Fishing and high energy Steelhead Fishing during the peak times, this produces hot action and Fishing Adventures of a Lifetime. So make a choice- the Dinosaurs of the Columbia River - Trophy & Keeper Sturgeon, Famous Chinook Salmon or Chrome Bright – hard fighting Steelhead then choose a day and contact us to Book Your Trip with the Columbia River Fishing Guide!

About 1 Arm Bandit Guide Service

Welcome To 1 Arm Bandit Fishing Guide Service!

"RJ" Herzman is the 1 Arm Bandit. He has been fishing the rivers in the Portland, Oregon and SW Washington area for most of his life.

I specialize in salmon fishing, steelhead fishing, sturgeon, steelhead, halibut tuna and crabbing trips. Many of my trips are out of Chinook Washington, Portland Oregon, Astoria Oregon, Vancouver Washington, will walk a Washington and near Bonneville dam. I always try to use the most popular methods for that particular fishery where I am fishing. If I had to name the single most common method used, it would be trolling. There are a lot of fishing guides in this area. I keep in touch with them on a daily basis to find out where they have been fishing and how successful they have been. Fishing conditions change on a daily basis so an area that was successful on Monday may just go dead on Wednesday. By contacting other guides in the area I always stay on top of the hot areas for fishing. Many other local area fishing guides fish the same places day in and day out. They have good days and bad days but continue to go back to the same areas. If a particular fishing area is not productive I won't waste my time and yours fishing there and trying to make something happen that just ain't gonna happen. My promised to you is that I'll not only take you fishing, I'll do my homework first so you have the best possible chance of catching fish.

Oregon and Washington are popular places to fish. Annual steelhead and salmon runs are often better than any place else in the world. The Willamette River runs right through the city of Portland, Oregon and features excellent sturgeon, salmon and steelhead fishing. If you stay at a hotel in Portland, Oregon you can literally be fishing from your hotel room. The most productive part of the Columbia River for fishing is the area from the mouth of the Columbia River near Astoria Oregon, known as buoy 10, all the way up to the Bonneville dam. I fish the Columbia River and many of the tributaries that run into the Columbia River and even fish in the Pacific Ocean.

The key word here is options. Many fishing guides are only experts in fishing for one are two types of fish. I've spent several years in Alaska learning how to catch halibut and tuna. That means that fishing guides who were limited to fishing for only a few species may often limit your chances of catching fish because, for example if salmon fishing is bad, they will still book a trip with you because that's the only option they have.

When you call the 1 Arm Bandit Fishing Guide Service, we have lots of options. If fishing conditions are not good for one species I can almost always recommend other fishing choices. Not many of the local area guides can take you tuna fishing or halibut fishing and if you've never experienced quality northwest halibut and tuna fishing, you have no idea what you are missing!

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