May 25, 2024, 5:35am Outdoors
Columbia River and tributary fishery reports for week of May 18, plus recent area trout plants of May 20-22 Read story
May 23, 2024, 6:06am Clark County News
U.S. Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray announced Wednesday nearly $75 million will flow to projects removing fish passage barriers and improving fish habitat in Washington. The Cowlitz Indian Tribe will receive $1.9 million for a fish passage project on Ostrander Creek in Cowlitz County. Read story
May 18, 2024, 6:01am Outdoors
Fishing at popular Swift Reservoir begins May 25; notice of trail closures at Mount St. Helens; and the weekly Columbia River tributaries fishing report. Read story
May 17, 2024, 5:51pm Northwest Free
Three Northwest tribes and federal agencies are getting closer to understanding how to revive Chinook and sockeye salmon runs on the upper Columbia River that were once among the most abundant in the world but were decimated by dams over the last century. Read story
May 15, 2024, 3:01pm Latest News
Spring chinook salmon angling in the lower Columbia River will reopen for the two coming weekends, plus June 12-15, Washington and Oregon fishery officials agreed Wednesday. Read story
May 11, 2024, 5:57am Outdoors
The latest Columbia River tributary fishery reports. This sample was taken during the May 5 flight count. Columbia River tributaries SALMON/STEELHEAD Cowlitz River I-5 Bridge downstream — 55 bank rods kept one steelhead, released two Chinook and one jack; two boats/seven rods released one Chinook. Cowlitz River above the I-5… Read story
May 4, 2024, 5:55am Outdoors
Spring Chinook passage over Bonneville Dam has increased during the last week, and the fishing at Drano Lake and the Wind River has picked up. Read story
May 4, 2024, 5:54am Outdoors
The 2024 northern pikeminnow bounty season on the Columbia and Snake rivers opens May 1, with decent money to be made. Read story
April 29, 2024, 5:19pm Latest News
With the fishery expected to have already met its allowable catch, recreational spring Chinook fishing on the Columbia River mainstem from Bonneville Dam to the Oregon/Washington border will close beginning Tuesday, April 30. Read story
April 29, 2024, 6:01am Latest News
In newly restored river channels on the Snoqualmie, baby Chinook salmon are confined in 19 enclosures about the size of large suitcases as they munch on little crustaceans and invertebrate insects floating or swimming by. Read story
