Allen Thomas
Reporter, Outdoors
Email: al.thomas@columbian.com
Call: 360-735-4555
Twitter: Follow @col_outdoors
Allen Covers fishing, hunting and outdoors.
Recent Stories
Fishing report 5/16
Anglers can fish for hatchery steelhead, hatchery chinook jacks downstream of Interstate 5; shad angling now open; kokanee catches improving
Clark-Skamania Flyfishers to reach grant milestone
Club will have awarded $150,000 in past decade to help Southwest Washington, Columbia Gorge fisheries, habitat
Out & About
Items about Ape Cave trail, a boating safety class, a cycling event at Trout Lake, the Oregon Bass and Panfish Club meeting and a fishing contest by Cabela's
Summer sturgeon season set for Bonneville pool
Sportsmen get four days in June to retain fish between Bonneville, The Dalles dams
States delay decision on lower Columbia spring chinook reopening
Washington and Oregon to meet again Monday to decide when to start angling again downstream of Bonneville Dam
States to consider reopening spring chinook season in Columbia
About 1,200 salmon available for commercials and 1,400 for lower river sportsmen
Fishing report 5/2
Spring chinook catches improving at Wind, Drano; trout fishing good at Swift Reservoir; kokanee fishing spotty at Merwin Reservoir
Summer, fall salmon seasons set for lower Columbia
Chinook angling will resume no later than June 16
Out & About
Items about a temporary fishing closure at Klineline Pond, a fly-casting workshop on June 1, an open house at the Science and Learning Center at Coldwater near Mount St. Helens and a vacancy on the Boating Safety Advisory Council
"College'' teaches trail-building techniques
Hundreds go to class to learn to improve, repair water crossings, rock walls and gain other backcountry skills
