Fishing near Kettle Falls, WA

Kettle Falls sits in Ferry County in northeastern Washington, where the Kettle River meets the Columbia River — now impounded as Lake Roosevelt behind Grand Coulee Dam. The area draws anglers to the Kettle River for wild redband rainbow trout and to Lake Roosevelt for largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, and yellow perch. Horseshoe Lake, a 33-acre natural lake edged by national forest, rounds out the local freshwater scene.

Top waters to fish near Kettle Falls

Species & education

Learn what type of fish are in Kettle Falls, Washington and what's needed to catch them.

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American Shad

Atlantic Salmon

Salmo salar

Black Bullhead

Ameiurus melas

Bull Trout

Burbot

Lota lota

Channel Catfish

Ictalurus punctatus

Chinook Salmon

Oncorhynchus tshawytscha

Coho Salmon

Oncorhynchus kisutch

Cutthroat Trout

Oncorhynchus clarkii clarkii (coastal cutthroat), O. clarkii lewisi (westslope cutthroat)

Grass Carp

Ctenopharyngodon idella

Largemouth Bass

Mountain Whitefish

Prosopium williamsoni

Northern Pike

Esox lucius

Northern Pikeminnow

Ptychocheilus oregonensis

Pumpkinseed

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