There are plenty of decent fishing activities heading into the holiday weekend. “This is the best Puget Sound coho fishing we’ve seen in at least 10 years, and we’ve come back with easy (two-fish per ...

Waves of coho are streaming into Puget Sound, and last weekend’s Everett Coho Derby was a record-setting affair. “That was the most fish we’ve ever weighed in the 14 years of the derby,” said Mark ...

Knowledgeable salmon fishermen are using superlatives to describe early coho action in local waters: “Best fishing I’ve seen in years and years,” said Mike Chamberlain at Ted’s Sport Center in ...

Even with the Chinook fishery reopening on Friday at Buoy 10, anglers can still look forward to coho. Coho fishing should be very good if the catches in the ocean off the mouth of the Columbia River ...

FISHING -- In a milestone for Snake River system salmon fisheries, the state Fish and Game Commission has approved a coho fishing season for the Clearwater River -- the first specific coho season to ...

As Lake Superior gradually warms up this spring and the fishing heats up, too, fisheries biologists are asking anglers to pay closer attention to their catch. Steelhead rainbow trout and coho salmon ...

The approach of September coincides with the arrival of coho salmon in the Columbia River. That means the fishery at Buoy 10 is now shifting from chinook, which has closed below Tongue Point, to the ...

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Oregon and Washington will reopen coho salmon fishing Friday in the Columbia River, from Tongue Point upriver to The Dalles Dam, to last through the end of October. Hatchery coho fishing will remain ...

That’s a dramatic increase from the 1990s, when numbers dropped as low as 26,000 fish in 1997 and 35,000 in 1998. That downturn led to coho being listed as threatened under the federal ESA.

LEWISTON – It’s been another tough year for anadromous fish runs in the Snake and Columbia rivers, but coho are providing a glimmer of good news. As of Thursday, 18,360 adult coho had been counted ...