The first time I ever heard of sockeye salmon was in the mid-1980s. A friend and I had traveled up to Alaska to do some salmon fishing and as we were driving to Soldotna to get to the portion of the ...

VANTAGE - Anglers have good reason to be booking trips with fishing guides or getting their own gear rigged and vacations scheduled for fishing the Columbia River from now into October. The ...

A crack in the Wanapum Dam on the Columbia River and the ensuing reduction of water levels have prompted crews to carry out about $7 million worth of work on fish ladders for chinook salmon. The ...

This is the peak season around the region for fly fishermen. All local rivers are fishing well. Dry/droppers, nymph rigs and Euro rigs are all producing. Caddis flies are good in the afternoons and ...

Summer chinook retention in the Columbia River from the Astoria-Megler Bridge upstream to Priest Rapids Dam will be closed beginning Saturday, July 1, although fishing for steelhead and sockeye will ...

Summer runs of shad, sockeye salmon, and summer steelhead are drawing big crowds below Bonneville Dam. The upstream movement has been okay for sockeye, poor for steelhead, and very good for American ...