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Astoria Fishing Happening Now
What do you want to fish for in 2026? Our Astoria location offers fishing for everyone. Some of the best salmon fishing in the Pacific Northwest. Plus we have sturgeon, tuna, lingcod, rockfish, and crabbing. Yes, it’s a smorgasbord of fishing, and as far as I’m concerned it doesn’t get much better than this. Update: […]
Astoria Sturgeon Fishing – Tarpon of the Northwest
Now through the first week of August may see some of the most action-packed days of sturgeon fishing of the year. We have about four more weeks of Trophy Sturgeon fishing on the Columbia River in Astoria before we switch completely over to fall salmon fishing at Buoy 10. Over the weekend we had a […]
Astoria Summer Fishing – Options Galore!
As the daily temps begins to rise and we start to see more sun than rain in the Pacific Northwest, I can’t help but think of the plethora of fishing options Astoria offers all summer long. Salmon, sturgeon, and bottom fish are available in Astoria, and sometimes multiple species on the same day. We’ll start […]
2026 Columbia River Spring Chinook Salmon Season Set
February 19th, 2026 Update: From March 1st – April 8th, the Columbia River will be open for Spring Chinook fishing from the Buoy 10 line in Astoria upstream to Beacon Rock. With the Cowlitz and Lewis River returns similar to last year’s, we should have some nice fishing opportunities in multiple sections of the river […]
Buoy 10 Fishing Forecast
This is the time of year when 2026 Buoy 10 Salmon and ocean abundance numbers for Astoria begin to get tossed around in the Buoy 10 forecast. While numbers aren’t official, I’m hearing some good things for this year’s possibilities. More numbers and information will be coming soon, but let’s start off with the 2025 […]
Tillamook County Ocean Salmon: You Catch It, You Keep It!
As we wrap up yet another fun and exciting Buoy 10 season, we have started to disperse here at Lance Fisher Fishing. Some guides went up stream, other will go even further, others have stayed in Astoria to coho salmon fish, while others are already starting to catch fish in Nehalem and Tillamook Bay. This […]
2020 Columbia River Buoy 10 Season Announced *Update*
2020 Buoy 10 Salmon Season The 2020 Buoy 10 Salmon season has been set! The full text of the joint decision by ODFW and WDFW is online, but here’s the season in a nutshell… Fishing on the Columbia River in Astoria opens up on August 14th this year. We can fish for both Chinook Salmon […]
Big Creek and Gnat Creek – Steelhead fishing that was
Big Creek and Gnat Creek, which are small tributaries on the Columbia River, used to be great locations for high water steelhead. And while not a place where a fishing guide is going to take customers, they were part of the fishing community and a place that people could go during high water or for […]
North Coast Drift Boat Season Kickoff
After a year in the sled, I love shifting gears and getting into the drift boat. It’s quiet, beautiful, and often times for me, some of the best fishing of the year. Like many of you, I’ve been watching this first real rain system of the year with great interest. We really never know how […]
2019 Columbia River Spring Chinook Forecast
These are preliminary numbers for the 2019 Columbia River Spring Chinook forecast, plus numbers for Summer Chinook and Sockeye. It looks like what most expected as we get through the years our smolt endured the blob out in the pacific. Look for one more year like this and then we should see an uptick. In […]