Author: Staff

Thursday's sampling from the Washington ports: 126 private boaters with 33 chinook and 15 coho; 13 charters boaters with five chinook and one coho. Monday is the final day of chinook […]

Washington creel sampling for WEdnesday: 85 rods with 35 chinook and 11 coho. Note: Chinook catches were excellent on Wednesday and Thursday just upstream of the Astoria Bridge on the Washington […]

Thursday's creel check from the Washington side was 42 boaters with 16 chinook and two coho. There are no numbers yet from Friday, but the fleet of boats in Blind Channel […]

Here are the creel sampling results from Wednesday: Oregon, 291 anglers with 70 chinook, 15 coho. Washington 146 anglers with 27 chinook, 6 coho. I'll be fishing at Buoy 10 on Friday, Sunday […]

Tuesday sampling from the Washington ports at Buoy 10: 115 anglers with 28 chinook and 6 coho. Buoy 10 numbers for Aug. 1-14: 4,711 trips with 662 chinook kept, 22 chinook […]

Anglers have caught a record number of summer steelhead this month in lower Columbia River with two weeks still remaining. Through Sunday, 11,639 steelhead had been handled (kept or released) between […]

Here are Monday's Washington and Oregon creel summaries from Buoy 10: Oregon: 132 anglers with 40 chinook and two coho; Washington 36 boaters with one coho. Oregon biologists report the catch […]

Chinook catches are improving slowly with almost a fish per every other boat on Sunday. A few more coho also are showing. Oregon's creel estimate for Sunday was 456 boaters […]

The water level in Merwin Reservoir was dropped on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, leaving the ramp at Speelyai Bay too low to launch boats. That forced at least five boats that […]

Phil Anderson, state wildlife director, told me Tuesday in Olympia there has been an amendment added to the Discover Pass legislation that would allow hunting and fishing license holders to […]