Author: Staff

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]