Columbia River Fishing
Columbia River Fishing- A guide to news, reports and information for Salmon, steelhead and sturgeon fishing for the Columbia River
Mid-Season Spring Chinook Report
So the theme of this year is HIGH WATER! I think that would be an understatement, but personally, outside of having to reschedule a few trips for our clients fishing with us out of our Portland locations, I like the high water. And there are a number of reasons why. The fishing has been good. […]
Sea Lions Wrecking Havoc- Possible Relief in Sight
The whole sea lion thing is getting old. It’s been 10 years of things getting progressively worse. There’s been a lot going on over the last week on the sea lion front and being on the water a lot this time of year, puts me face to face with a nuisance that seems a long […]
Conditions Improve and Magically, So Does the Salmon Fishing
I’ve never been a big fan of late March Salmon fishing on the Columbia and 2017 has brought us an example as to why I feel this way. Early season Salmon fishing at it’s best is inconsistent. This year, with huge snow packs and turbid conditions, fishing got off to an understandably slow start. What’s […]
Bi-State Columbia River Saga Continues
The ODFW Commission met Friday to disuss among other things, Columbia River gillnets. Oh. My. Gosh. What a frigging marathon of a meeting. It was hours and hours and hours. It was brutal. I watched it live on Periscope. I was like, “Are these folks ever going to be done?” It was one piece of testimony […]
582,000 Columbia River Fall Chinook Estimated for 2017
Fishery managers are looking at returns of between 582,600 Fall Chinook for the Columbia River in 2017. Official numbers will be announced later today. The breakdown on the 582,600 fish is as follows: Upriver Bright component or SRW- 260,000 Bonneville Pool or BPA- 158,000 Hatchery Tule or LRH- 92,400 Wild Tule or LRW- 12,500 Bonneville Upriver Bright […]
2017 Fishing Schedule- Oregon, Columbia River and Washington
I’m looking forward to another great year fishing. Many of you have fished with me long enough to be good friends and I’m thankful for the continued support and fun over the years. We’ve expanded our fishing offerings this year to be able to give our customers the best fishing in two states. While I […]
Columbia River Salmon Continue Downward Slide for 2017
A little bird showed up and happened to whisper some pre-season forecasts for some of our upcoming Columbia River fishing Seasons. In 2017, Columbia River Spring Chinook continue a decline with 160,400 upriver bound fish projected to arrive at the mouth near Astoria. I wasn’t able to find the fact sheet that gave final results […]
Columbia River- So many fish, not enough time
It’s been a while since I’ve been able to post, it has been a busy charter/guide season on the Columbia River to say the least. Can you believe we catch all these fish within ear shot of our Portland location? It’s hard to believe sometimes, so I’ll consider myself grateful. When I left Astoria I was’t […]
5 Rules for Guiding- the 2016 Buoy 10 Salmon Season
By popular demand, I started my Astoria guided fishing charters the first week of August this year. Last year’s early season beat down had all of us pretty optimistic for the first week of August despite totally different conditions. I personally didn’t think we’d see anything like what we saw in 2015 and I don’t mean to […]
All Hatchery Fish Can Now Be Kept at Buoy 10
Everybody knows that Sundays and Mondays at Buoy 10 are hatchery only. Don’t get me started on why with a million fish returning we need to have such restrictions, but rules are rules. On the bright side, with so many returning Chinook, the folks fishing on those days may end up with the biggest bang […]