A word of warning, stay between the bouys even with the water up there are still shallow spots that can screw up a lower unit. As  far as places, the mouth of the yakama, around the islands in the snake and most points  and edys. While that info may seem a little vag, it will put fish in the boat! Enjoy your trip!

The river has dropped significantly in the past couple of weeks, so I advise you to stay within the bouys and do not attempt to cut close to the bouys thinking they are safe. Give yourself a cushion. I about soiled myself after running close to a bouy inside the channel and ran into about 3 feet near the bout......which is OK, but still, give yourself some room.

As for fishing.....look for current seams, almost like any other type of river fishing.

The 90 degree rule is really important to follow - always come off plane early and then approach shores slowly at 90 degrees..... and vice versa when leaving. Mark Maderos can attest to that, when leaving a shoreline, it seemed we had 14 ft under the boat so he hit the throttle....and we hit a rockpile!!! Luckily, the only damage to his old Cobra was a chunk out of the skeg, but the sounds and impact made us wonder for a moment if there was anything still attached to the cavitation plate of his motor.

Stay safe...and have fun!

Faz

Everything everyone else said is true I learned the hard way just three weeks ago in the Snake, Right now my boat is in the repair shop for a new lower end and glass work $5589.53 to be exact. Even when coming in out of the main channel 9.5 feet turns to 0 before you know it. But for the important stuff always dropshot the backside of bridge pilings, something white.....

ok so....i'm heading over in a couple weeks for some fun fishing and wanted to explore the snake.  if you stay between channel markers everything is fine right?  and that sucks henry hopefully its done in time for the tourney

troy

Brian,

I still can remember that time I ran on full plane from the beginning of Caseys Pond all the way to the bridge and back to the mouth of the river from caseys. When I stopped to fish the point on the corner of caseys and the river another boater motored up to me and ask me how on earth did I just do what I had done. Now being that it was the very first time on the river I said to the guy do what? And he said do you know how shallow this flat is and that their were concrete blocks that sit in the middle of the flat??? I said my sonar looked fine to me and I had no problems.

I guess you could say it was pure luck that I never hit anything in that pond. But the fishing was sure good.

Russ