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The Snake River below Ice Harbor Dam will open May 20-21 for spring Chinook fishing, while May 15 and 19 will be the last chances to get after the salmon below Little Goose Dam, WDFW announced following this week's runsize update.
Mid-May 2026 spring Chinook, steelhead, shad and sturgeon catch stats for the Lower Columbia, select Southwest Washington tributaries and the lower Willamette River.
Oregon Coast salmon managers have posted an "early" version of their proposed 2026 fall Chinook and wild coho seasons for public comment ahead of final decisions by state and federal fishery overseers in the coming months.
By: Andy Walgamott
Organizers of an initiative petition that would ban fishing and hunting in Oregon have now submitted the minimum number of signatures to get on this fall's ballot if enough of those names are valid, a first for the years-long campaign that targets so-called animal cruelty exemptions.
ODFW has posted super handy tables that show what proposals for this fall's Chinook and coho seasons on the Oregon Coast look like. They list this year's proposed bag limits, closure dates or other special regs in some cases, and how bag limits or open days compare to 2025.
Late May 2026 spring Chinook, shad, steelhead, sturgeon and walleye catch stats for the Lower Columbia, lower Willamette and select Southwest Washington tributaries.
By: Andy Walgamott
WDFW officials are confirming a "meet and confer" will occur on Friday with the Quinault Indian Nation after the tribe said they would go to federal court over their claimed treaty right to fish Willapa Bay and the estuary of the Columbia River.
By: Andy Walgamott
A closed-door meeting today on the Washington Coast to hear about the Quinault Indian Nation's bid to extend its fisheries to Willapa Bay and the bottom end of the Lower Columbia has ended.
Late May 2026 spring Chinook, steelhead, sturgeon and shad catch stats for the Lower Columbia, select Southwest Washington tributaries and the lower Willamette River.
Up until recently, nobody could really say for sure whether the gazillions of American shad running up the Columbia River were having any impact on salmon and steelhead, either directly or indirectly. That may be changing.
