An angler shows off a big hatchery steelhead taken on the Cowlitz River. While hatchery winter steelhead are tough to forecast, the wild return of Columbia River winter steelhead is expected to be ...

Columbia River anglers will get to continue fishing for hatchery spring chinook salmon below Bonneville Dam from March 1 through April 6. Sport fishing is currently open through March 31 for hatchery ...

With the days getting longer and the warmer, people are gearing up for an exciting season of fishing all the way till the end of fall. Tri-Cities offers an incredible number of places to go fishing ...

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 ...

My fishing guide, Shiloh Patterson, vividly remembers the first time he hooked a king salmon back in 1997. The fight lasted only 10 seconds before his line snapped, but it was all he could talk about ...

Warm water and late salmon runs delayed fall fishing along the Columbia River. Backtrolling Kwikfish lures and flat-lining Wee Warts proved consistently effective. Anglers share stories that preserve ...