A day after the first official legal Willamette River spring chinook salmon of 2026 was landed, Oregon and Washington managers approved an early spring season for the lower Columbia River, two days ...

Washington and Oregon officials say they will wait to decide whether to reopen spring chinook salmon fishing in the lower Columbia River despite anglers having about 40 percent of their early-season ...

Buzz Ramsey of Yakima Bait attempts to net a spring chinook on the Columbia River. It was announced Wednesday, May 29, 2024, that the spring chinook season has been extended from June 1-15. (Terry ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With the days getting longer and the warmer, people are gearing up for an exciting season of fishing all the way till the end of ...

Apr. 26—The spring chinook run at Bonneville Dam is off to one of its better starts since 2016. As of Wednesday, more than 8,800 adult spring chinook were counted using the dam's fish ladders. While ...

The spring chinook fishery on the lower Columbia River continues through June 15, followed the next day by a promising six-week summer chinook season, according to the Department of Fish and Wildlife.

LEWISTON – The return of upriver spring chinook to the Columbia River that starts in a few months will nearly mirror the 2024 run, according to fisheries managers. That’s the sort-of-good news. The ...

With only 10 percent of the early-season allocation caught, spring chinook salmon fishing in the lower Columbia River is open through April 17, is closed April 18 and 19, then opens again April 20 ...

It is a joyous time of year for tens of thousands of salmon anglers in the Pacific Northwest. Oh, sure, it is Christmas and all that, but last week the prognosticators of such things put out their ...

For the fifth straight year, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife won’t allow anglers to fish for spring chinook on the Deschutes River. Fishing for spring chinook on the Deschutes has not been ...