In this momentous period of history, anglers must ponder their duty and act on putting aside political differences and personal biases to serve their fishery. Licensed anglers who will cast, catch, ...

Fishery managers closed the recreational Chinook and steelhead spring fishing season on the Columbia River downstream of the Bonneville Dam starting Thursday — four days earlier than anticipated.

On the lower Columbia River from Rocky Point/Tongue Point line upstream to Bonneville Dam there were 159 salmonid boats and 42 Washington bank rods tallied on the Oct. 11 flight count.

Lower Columbia River spring Chinook salmon seasons closed June 1, 2023, due to low salmon returns. (Terry Otto for The Columbian) The recreational fishery for spring Chinook salmon and steelhead on ...

Jul. 15—Idaho's catch-and-release steelhead season on the Clearwater River opened July 1 as it always does. But anglers will soon experience a change. Last fall, the Idaho Fish and Game Commission ...

The spring Chinook runs are hopefully beginning to arrive, with hopes of some early returners on the Cowlitz and Lewis systems. It’s clear steelhead remain one of the hottest tickets for anglers ...

It’s the first major development in the decades-long legal battle since the Trump administration blew up a 2023 agreement for ...

The first historic reference of a steelhead came on March 16, 1806, when Lewis and Clark bought a “salmon trout” from the Indians. That was a steelhead. Captain Lewis said that the salmon trout could ...

There’s no reason a steelhead should eat a fly that skitters across the surface of a river. Actually, there’s no reason steelhead should eat flies at all. Steelhead leave the Pacific Ocean and swim ...

Steelhead trout drift in an Oregon stream. JOHN DAY — Angling for steelhead will be closed in the mainstem John Day River above Tumwater Falls (and tributaries above this boundary) from Sept. 15 to ...

Continued surprise fish returns at Bonneville Dam brought yet another extension of sportfishing in the lower Columbia River on Wednesday. Oregon and Washington biologists approved recreational salmon ...