Articles written by Wash. Dept. Of Fish & Wildlife

Wash. Dept. of Fish & Wildlife|May 24, 2012

Sport fishing for spring chinook salmon will reopen this Saturday and Sunday (May 26-27) on the lower Columbia River below Bonneville Dam. Fishery managers from Washington and Oregon agreed to reopen the fishery for those two days to boat and bank anglers from Buoy 10 to Beacon Rock. Bank anglers will also be allowed to fish from Beacon Rock upriver to the deadline at Bonneville Dam. The daily limit is two adult hatchery salmon, two hatchery steelhead, or one of each. However, anglers may retain only one chinook salmon as part of their daily...