Fall salmon fishing has been very good this year, and now that the mainstem Columbia is finally cooling off for Chinook, many anglers will be looking to the tributaries for late returning coho salmon.

Smashing records, sockeye salmon are booming up the Columbia River, in a run expected to top 700,000 fish before it’s over. But a punishing heat wave has made river temperatures so hot many may ...

The fall salmon season is peaking right now, and anglers are catching both Chinook and coho from Buoy 10 at the Columbia River’s mouth to the Deschutes River at the east end of the Columbia ...

Oregon and Washington will reopen the Columbia River on Saturday, through the end of the year, to all salmon fishing from Buoy 10 to Pasco, Washington. Daily bag limit will be two adult salmon ...

PORTLAND, Ore. ” Usually by now, the Columbia River’s spring chinook salmon are heading upstream over fish ladders in the tens of thousands to spawn. Not this year. Fish biologists had ...

Daily bag limits remain the same: Three salmon, only one chinook between Buoy 10 and West Puget Island; two salmon, but only one chinook, clipped or unclipped from West Puget Island to Bonneville Dam.

Earlier this summer, the record return of sockeye salmon on the Columbia River looked to be doomed by water too warm to pass. But the run got a well-timed break from the heat. The Fish Passage ...

Sockeye salmon are returning to the Columbia River at numbers far higher than predicted by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, ... the sockeye run has hit record lows in recent years.

Salmon advocates want negotiators to consider salmon and the Columbia River’s ecosystem as a part of an agreement between the U.S. and Canada. The agreement, known as the Columbia River Treaty ...

Smashing records, sockeye salmon are booming up the Columbia River in a run expected to top 700,000 fish before it’s over. But a punishing heat wave has made river temperatures so hot many may ...

Earlier this summer, the record return of sockeye salmon on the Columbia River looked to be doomed by water too warm to pass. But the run got a well-timed break from the heat.