Blame my late start to the fall salmon season on high water temperature and late-arriving fish. Waiting for the river to cool down and salmon passage counts to build, I spent September afternoons ...

Known for its diverse runs of salmon, the Columbia River draws thousands of anglers to test their luck each year. But with salmon runs nowhere near what they once were, fishing is tightly regulated to ...

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

Columbia River steelhead fishing remains strong, with early morning bites keeping shorelines busy. Tributaries are seeing solid steelhead movement, and ocean coho and chinook continue to provide ...

Summer chinook salmon fishing closed Saturday on a portion of the upper Columbia River. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced this week that the harvest allocation for chinook ...

As king salmon feel the impulse to spawn in fall, they move closer to shore, putting them within reach of small-boat anglers and shore fishermen. / Joe Shead Fall is trophy king salmon season for ...

Fall is trophy king salmon season for Great Lakes anglers and one of my favorite times to be on the water. As temperatures cool off, the spawning instinct kicks in, pushing big Chinook (king) salmon ...