After hitting it hard fishing for spring chinook through late April and well into the month of May, I like to flip the calendar to June, because the month brings with it some other fishing ...

Salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River Basin could have another mounting challenge: a horde of American shad. In recent years, non-native shad migrating past Bonneville Dam on the Lower Columbia ...

Spring chinook fishing was slowing down. The few crabs being caught were watery and thin. Even the low tides weren’t low enough. And so dawn last Thursday found me on the Columbia River fishing for ...

On the lower Columbia River from Rocky Point/Tongue Point line upstream to Bonneville Dam there were 261 salmonid boats and 397 Washington bank rods were tallied on the May 31 flight count. Section 1 ...

But over the past few decades, as their population has dwindled, salmon have been overtaken by a non-native species of fish hailing from the East Coast - THE SHAD. Shad runs now number in the millions ...

Sec 1 (Bonneville) — 235 bank anglers kept eight Chinook, five jacks, and released 13 Chinook. 8 boats/18 rods kept two Chinook and released two Chinook. Sec 2 (Camas/Washougal) — 23 boats/46 rods ...

Farley Eaglespeaker (center) reels in a traditional hoop net while fishing for salmon on the Columbia River in Skamania County, Washington on June 23, 2024. (Jordan Gale/Oregon Capital Chronicle) This ...

Fishing conditions across Southwest Washington are mixed heading into the Fourth of July weekend. Sockeye runs are underwhelming, while steelhead numbers show slight promise. The Columbia River is ...