I’ll have more details on Thursday, but here’s the quick-and-dirty about spring chinook in the lower Columbia River. Washington sampled 760 anglers with 17 spring chinook and eight steelhead during the first three days of March. Thirteen of the chinook…
The Fish Passage Center reports the first spring chinook of 2013 was counted on Feb. 13 at Bonneville Dam. The temperature in the Columbia at the dam is 40 degrees, with a flow of about 150,000 cubic feet per second.
Here’s the latest on sport fishing rules, conditions, etc, updated a couple of times a week: Columbia River — The forecast of spring chinook to the mid- and upper Columbia river is a relatively low 141,400 salmon. That converts into…
GUIDE BASHING: At almost every meeting of the Columbia River Compact either a sport fisherman or a gillnetter takes a verbal swipe at the other group. It’s just part of the landscape and state officials give it no thought. On…
Bonneville pool sturgeon — This is kind of a target-gone-by post, but here are the numbers from the June 15-16 and June 22-23 sturgeon season in the Bonneville pool of the Columbia River. Anglers caught 940 sturgeon in the winter…
Washington and Oregon officials have decided not to have a Columbia River Compact meeting today, meaning no gillnetting on Tuesday. Twenty test drifts on Sunday caught 28 chinook and 40 steelhead. Seventy-nine percent of the chinook were hatchery fish, while…
LONG BEACH — Four Washington beaches will be open for razor clam digging on March 24 and three on March 25. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife said marine toxin tests confirmed the clams are safe to eat. Long…
There will be no meeting of the Columbia River Compact today to consider a commercial fishing period in the lower river. Test netting on Sunday did not find a high ratio of chinook to steelhead, which state officials are looking…
Salmon fishing interest keeps building in the lower Columbia River with almost 500 boats and 436 bank rods counted on Thursday’s flight. Forty-one boats and 10 bank rods were counted sturgeon fishing. In February, there were 8,200 angler trips with…
I did my annual fall trout-fishing trip at Swift Reservoir last week. Normally the bite is so good that we have a rule requiring changing a lure with each fish. It’s a way to spend more time on the way,…
