Columbia Coho and Chinook Fading; Coastal Chinook Runs Slowing As Well Willamette Valley/Metro – Willamette River coho returns continue to surprise anyone watching the counts. Well over 10,000 adult coho have bypassed Willamette Falls, making for some good opportunity near upriver tributaries. Maybe more impressive is the jack counts, just shy of 3 times higher…
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Oregon and SW Washington Fisheries Update
Columbia Chinook Finally Slowing, Coastal Systems Primed Willamette Valley/Metro – Chinook fishing is starting to slow on the mainstem Columbia. Dark Chinook are still an option in the Bonneville reach, but fresh-run salmon action will start to decline dramatically this week. That said, it is still an option, but anglers should be selective as to…
Oregon and SW Washington Fisheries Update
Astoria Coho Still Viable, Coastal Fall Chinook Are Available Willamette Valley/Metro – Metro anglers are starting to see a slight slow-down in Chinook opportunity locally. Chinook counts at Bonneville remain good and anglers fishing in the Bonneville to Multnomah Falls reach are still finding fresh fish although not with the same levels of success witnessed…
Oregon and SW Washington Fisheries Update
Columbia Chinook Bag Limit Doubles, Coastal Fall Chinook Fishing is Challenging Willamette Valley/Metro – Anglers got more good news, allowing them to retain up to two Chinook in the Columbia River mainstem. Anglers saw great action in the gorge on Wednesday, before the gillnets went in that night. Bonneville numbers are tapering, but action should…
Oregon and SW Washington Fisheries Update
Columbia Chinook & Coho Returns Exceeding Expectations; Good Fishing Continues Willamette Valley/Metro – Metro anglers are still in hot pursuit of mainstem Columbia fall Chinook. Despite lots of good fishing still to come, catches remain sporadic as the sport fleet is still competing with the commercial fleet for successful days. It’s been a robust return,…
Oregon and SW Washington Fisheries Update
Columbia Set to Re-Open, Coho in the Clackamas, Sandy Willamette Valley/Metro – Fishery managers from Oregon and Washington met by phone today (Thursday, September 17th) to discuss the opportunity for additional time to pursue Chinook on the mainstem Columbia, prior to the pre-season plan on September 23rd. Managers decided to let the fishery prosecute starting…
Oregon and SW Washington Fisheries Update
Wildfires Dominating Landscape, Fall Chinook Are On the Run Willamette Valley/Metro – Anglers will be excited for another 3 days of Chinook opportunity in the Columbia River mainstem starting tomorrow (Friday). Pro trollers using spinners or super-baits should find fair to good action on the mainstem Columbia. There’s been good fishing at Bonneville (when they…
Oregon and SW Washington Fisheries Update
Last Chance at Mainstem Chinook; Sturgeon Retention Opens Above Wauna Willamette Valley/Metro – With the last of the 3-day openers for Chinook starting Friday, anglers will be perplexed as to what their next moves are. The fishing should be good however, with wobbler plunkers taking fish, but trollers working flashers and spinners the likely winners…
Oregon and SW Washington Fishing Reports
Mainstem Columbia to Close Soon, Coho Yet to Show Willamette Valley/Metro – With the fall Chinook migration underway, anglers are coming out in force to take advantage of the abbreviated season. Check your local listings here for the river reach you’re fishing, for up-to-date information on regulations. Overall, The Fishery is going well but that…
Oregon and SW Washington Fisheries Update
Buoy 10 Set To Explode, Halibut and Ocean Salmon Producing Willamette Valley/Metro – Fall Chinook action is starting to heat up for metro area anglers. Although it’s likely the season will be closed before this mainstem Columbia metro fishery hits its stride, it appears as if the run is tracking ahead of last year, and…
Oregon and SW Washington Fisheries Update
Buoy 10 Set To Explode, Halibut and Ocean Salmon Producing Willamette Valley/Metro – It remains a complex set of regulations on the mainstem Columbia, but salmon fishing is open upstream of West Puget Island. You can study those options HERE. It’s early for fall run salmon, but with the Buoy 10 season closed until Friday,…
Oregon and SW Washington Fisheries Update
Depoe Bay, Newport Have Biting Coho, Metro Fisheries Lack Opportunity Willamette Valley/Metro – With mainstem Columbia steelhead fishing closed until you get to the John Day Dam, anglers won’t have much to fish for until at least the 3rd week of August, when fall Chinook start to show. There are reaches of the lower Columbia…
Oregon and SW Washington Fisheries Update
Summer Blues in the Nearshore; Albacore Action is Improving Willamette Valley/Metro – We’ve written off spring Chinook fishing, but last week, one reader wrote, “Glad the fish hanging out in the harbor this morning didn’t read this report. We caught 2 of em.” That came in on July 24th, shows you what I know. But…
Oregon and SW Washington Fisheries Update
Ocean Coho Fishing Remains “Chill,” Summer Steelhead Catches Fair Willamette Valley/Metro – With the Willamette River spring Chinook season starting to taper, anglers are looking to the mainstem Columbia to satisfy their needs. Counts at Bonneville Dam are improving for summer steelhead and summer Chinook and sockeye are still passing, but in dwindling numbers. ODF&W’s…
Oregon and SW Washington Fisheries Update
Ocean Coho Cools Along With the Pacific; Columbia River Summer Steelhead is Back! Willamette Valley/Metro – Most would have given up on Willamette River spring Chinook by now, and many have, but catches are still coming for the fishery that just won’t quit. Although creel programs are “wrapped” for the year, Portland Harbor trollers are…