August 26, 2023, 5:55am Editor's Choice
Northern Pike, a non-native predator with a voracious appetite, has been found in several systems that feed the Columbia River, and while many anglers welcome them as a hard-fighting game fish, they are giving state biologists headaches. Read story
August 24, 2023, 5:52am Outdoors
Salmon fishing resumes Thursday, Aug. 24 in the Buoy 10 area at the mouth of the Columbia River after a scheduled, three-day closure to dampen harvest and allow state biologists to calculate the catch. Read story
August 16, 2023, 3:46pm Outdoors
The Washington Columbia River mainstem and tributary sport sampling summary for Aug. 7-13. Read story
August 9, 2023, 3:18pm Outdoors
The Washington Columbia River mainstem and tributary sport sampling summary for Aug. 1-6. Read story
August 4, 2023, 2:25pm Editor's Choice Free
Decades of data show that despite billions in taxpayer investment, salmon and steelhead hatchery programs and restoration projects in the Columbia River Basin have failed to support or boost native fish populations and in fact are contributing to their decline. Read story
August 2, 2023, 3:32pm Outdoors
The Washington Columbia River mainstem and tributary sport sampling summary for July 24-31. Read story
July 29, 2023, 6:05am Editor's Choice
Archer Mayo holds a deep reverence for water. A windsurfer, scuba and free diver in the Columbia River Gorge, Mayo often swims with sturgeon, salmon, steelhead, lamprey and other inhabitants of the river. Read story
July 29, 2023, 5:50am Editor's Choice Subscriber Exclusive
While the forecasted runs of Chinook and coho look pretty good, everyone is wondering if there will be a full Buoy 10 season after a shutdown last year put an early end to the fun. Read story
July 27, 2023, 2:35pm Editor's Choice
With higher-than-normal numbers of adult-size sturgeon found dead in several pools of the Columbia River so far this summer, white sturgeon fishing will close on a large portion of the mid-Columbia beginning Saturday, July 29, fishery managers from Washington and Oregon announced Wednesday. Read story
July 26, 2023, 3:08pm Editor's Choice
Fall chinook salmon fishing in the Columbia River opens Tuesday with the arrival of August including new regulations to dampen the catch at Buoy 10. Read story