Anglers planning to fish for salmon on any of the eight Washington tributaries that flow into the Columbia River below Bonneville Dam can expect good fishing for hatchery coho.
Anglers have extra reason to fish for pikeminnow in August: $60,000 worth of special prize money to be awarded in weekly drawings from the names of everyone who catches pikeminnow that week.
The states of Oregon and Washington on Tuesday decided to extend the popular recreational white sturgeon season in the lower Columbia River to allow anglers more time to, potentially, achieve their harvest allocation.
The Colville Confederated Tribes have agreed to cover fish production costs at the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife's Colville Fish Hatchery, a state facility in northeast Washington slated for closure under recent budget cuts.
A newly completed document is expected to provide the framework for a comprehensive water resource management plan aimed at easing water shortages that affect humans and fish in Washington's Yakima River basin.
An improving upriver spring chinook forecast translates to fewer Endangered Species Act "impacts" and thus allowed the opening this morning of a Columbia River mainstem sport fishery for steelhead and sockeye from Portland's Interstate 5 bridge down to Tongue Point-Rocky Point near the river mouth.
Things are looking up in northeast Oregon where the anticipated strength of both wild-born and hatchery produced fish will allow a spring chinook fishing season in a section of the Wallowa River for only the second time since the 1970s.
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Due to relatively strong returns of spring chinook in the Snake River, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Idaho Department of Fish and Game are opening a spring chinook fishery below Hells Canyon Dam from May 30 until a closure is announced.
Anglers can earn cash and help save salmon by participating in the Northern Pikeminnow Sport Reward Fishery Program, which kicked off May 1 in the lower Columbia and Snake rivers. The program continues until Sept. 27.
Fishery managers up and down the Columbia River are keeping a close eye on spring chinook salmon counts at Bonneville Dam to determine what type of harvest opportunities might be available in the weeks ahead.
The Columbia River basin's 2009 upriver spring chinook run is finally starting to build, and fishers, now shutdown on the mainstem, are hoping the trend grows and grows.
The first chinook salmon of spring have arrived at the lower Snake River's Lower Granite Dam, the last hurdle on their way back to Idaho and northeast Oregon.
Spring chinook sport fishing on the Columbia River below Bonneville Dam is projected to continue through April 22 as planned, based on preliminary in-season catch estimates updated this week by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Salmon anglers will have increased fishing opportunities off the coast "north of Cape Falcon" and in the Columbia River this summer, while most recreational fisheries in Puget Sound will be similar to seasons adopted last year, according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Eager anglers last week set a record last weekend in their pursuit of spring chinook salmon on the Columbia River mainstem.
Apparently for the fifth year in a row spawning upriver spring chinook salmon are biding their time before launching themselves up and over the fish ladders at Bonneville Dam, the first hydro project they encounter on the Columbia River.
The states of Oregon and Washington set season closure dates for white sturgeon retention in the Columbia River above The Dalles and John Day dams.
Forecasts of 2009 salmon returns to the Snake River basin, including endangered sockeye, are expected to continue a recent upward trend, state officials told the Northwest Power and Conservation Council earlier this month during its meeting in Boise.
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The annual Columbia River rite of spring has begun with anglers anxiously awaiting the arrival of spring chinook salmon.
The Idaho Department of Fish and Game has scheduled a "State of the Lake Meeting" to discuss the status of the Lake Pend Oreille fishery.
One Columbia River mainstem rite of spring -- the spring chinook salmon return -- has yet to begin.
Another -- the fight over spring chinook harvests -- started early and continues.
Columbia River fisheries managers are projecting a large return of spring chinook salmon to northeast Oregon streams in 2009, and anglers should experience the best opportunity to catch a spring chinook from the Imnaha and Wallowa rivers in many years.
Fishery managers from Oregon and Washington today adopted new regulations for white sturgeon fishing in the Columbia River and its tributaries throughout 2009.
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