
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
Estuary sturgeon season closed beginning Friday
Good catch, increased angling effort is filling catch guideline 10 days earlier than scheduled
Fishing report 6/13
Summer salmon rules begin Sunday; estuary sturgeon catch better than anticipated; kokanee fishing good at Yale Reservoir
Out & About
Items about volunteers needed for Washington Trails Association projects and a boating safety class in Vancouver
Close, but not quite summer
Trails, campgrounds in Gifford Pinchot National Forest opening as snow slowly melts
Gillnetters to fish lower Columbia on Sunday night
Commercials projected to catch about 2,500 summer chinook between Beacon Rock and the coast
Spring chinook retention reopens in Columbia Gorge
Boat angling also resumes between Beacon Rock and Bonneville Dam
Fishing report 6/6
Goose Lake loaded with trout; chinook, sturgeon and kokanee fishing remains slow; shad, walleye and bass catches improve
Out & About
Items about elk hoof rot in Southwest Washington, free use of state parks, a Columbia River Compact meeting and Merwin Special Needs Kids Day
Fishing report 5/30
Sturgeon fishing improves in lower Columbia, shad plentiful and spring chinook sputter along
Out & About
Items about free fishing clinics at Fishermen's Marine, cross-country skiing at Mount Hood Meadows and Free Fishing Weekend in Oregon

