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2026 Columbia River Salmon Fishing Forecast – Spring and Summer

A nice spring chinook caught on the Columbia River

December 8th, 2025: In the first of many forecasts to come over the next couple months, the 2026 Columbia River Spring and Summer Salmon preseason forecast has been released. The preliminary numbers for the 2026 Columbia River Spring Chinook run are looking better than the 2025 forecast, bumping up to around 222,000 fish expected. Most […]

Columbia River Salmon- Springers, wait I mean Summers

A nice big Summer Chinook Salmon caught on the Columbia River

Some of you may know that we received an extension on the Columbia River to continue to fish for Spring Salmon. I wasn’t terribly excited about the option as I spend my May on the Willamette fishing for Spring Salmon and these sort of seasons aren’t usually that productive. In this case however, it did […]