Columbia River Fishing
Columbia River Fishing- A guide to news, reports and information for Salmon, steelhead and sturgeon fishing for the Columbia River
Buoy 10 Salmon Fishing- Better than predicted
Many of you may know that my boat of the last three years has been sold and a new one will be here and ready Monday just in time for 17 days of Buoy 10 madness. I scheduled the whole boat build in between summer steelhead and the buoy 10 season so as to not […]
Buoy 10 Salmon Fishing- Make your move
Many of my customers don’t just fish with me, but also do a bunch of fishing on their own. The Buoy 10 fishery in Astoria on the Lower Columbia River is one of those fisheries that at times looks really easy, but as many of you may know there’s more to it than just showing […]
Columbia River Fall Salmon- Buoy 10 and Klickitat River looking good!
Fall Salmon fishing is looking good for our Columbia River Buoy 10 and Klickitat River fishery. To summarize today’s meeting- managers are looking for similar Fall Chinook numbers to return and significantly better Coho or Silver numbers. I currently have a few random seats and a couple days open for each fishery. Don’t wait if […]
Summer break means More Fishing!
The 2013 Spring Chinook season won’t go down as a barn burner by any means, but I’m grateful for those that came out and am happy with how the boat fished. So with the Willamette and now Tillamook behind us, it’s time to look forward to some fishing that I’ve really grown to love. Columbia […]
Columbia River Fall Salmon fishing looking even better
Most of the email alerts that I get aren’t much. A sucker fish had a baby. Manatee falls in love with whale, etc. Typical headlines that are quickly jettisoned into my cyber trash can. But occasionally such a release actually means something like the one I got last week on this year’s Columbia River Fall […]
The move to Shimano, G. Loomis, Power Pro
In the last few days I’ve completed a move to a group of companies that I have long admired and only hoped to one day join. Shimano, G. Loomis and PowerPro stand at the peak of their respective categories and I believe my customers will be the recipients of many of the relationships benefits. Shimano […]
Ocean and Mouth of the Columbia River Coho looking much improved
I have to admit right now, I didn’t miss the lack of Coho Salmon last year. I say this with full understanding that had the Chinook not shown up in the salt and river the way they did, it would have been curtains for sure. But fortunately for sports and charter boats alike, the Ocean […]
Columbia River Spring Chinook 2013 Forecast
Many of my customers have been waiting for this years forecast and subsequent seasons to be set by Oregon’s and Washington’s Commissions. Of course booking trips without the season set for the Columbia makes things a bit difficult, so it’s good to see what we can count on going into this years spring season. Before […]
What gillnet removal means for sportfishing on the Columbia River
The decision by Oregon and Washington to remove gillnets from the Columbia River will, simply put, mean more fish for sportfishing. Don’t expect much to change immediately, but over the course of the next few years, the commercial fleet will be transitioned to the side channels of Youngs Bay on the Oregon side and Deep […]
Columbia River Gillnetts relegated to off channel areas
Friday posed the final nail in the coffin for the future of gillnets on the Columbia River. Of course I’ve been following this subject for years on the radio show and with clients in the boat. We’re all interested in the outcome as sport fishermen, but as a native Northwesterner, I still have mixed emotions […]