On Dec. 9, Washington and Oregon released the first spring Chinook projections for 2026, and the runs should be very similar to 2025. Some runs are down, but a few are expected to perform better than ...

Anglers will get six more days to fish the Columbia River for spring Chinook. Oregon and Washington held a compact meeting on Wednesday, and after reviewing the catch data for the season that closed ...

Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, Wash. Staff Report, Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, Wash. May 15—LEAVENWORTH — The Icicle River near Leavenworth will be open for spring Chinook hatchery salmon ...

Jul. 2—ENTIAT — Fishing season for Chinook salmon on the Entiat River will open a week early and the upstream boundary will be expanded, according to a press release from the Washington Department of ...

Portions of the upper Skagit River and the Cascade River will open Wednesday to fishing for hatchery spring Chinook salmon. According to state Department of Fish and Wildlife news releases, the Skagit ...

Spring-run fish are a variant of Chinook salmon, who return to rivers much earlier than the more abundant fall-run salmon. They return in the spring from the ocean to coastal freshwater rivers, ...

LEWISTON – The return of upriver spring chinook to the Columbia River that starts in a few months will nearly mirror the 2024 run, according to fisheries managers. That’s the sort-of-good news. The ...

The state Department of Fish and Wildlife reopened the Skagit River to fishing for hatchery spring Chinook salmon on Tuesday from the West Mount Vernon Bridge to Gilligan Creek east of Sedro-Woolley.

Spring chinook salmon fishing is heating up in the mid-Columbia at a couple popular fishing holes. In fact, right now, (if you are reading this during daylight hours) there are approximately 139 boats ...

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Friday announced a temporary prohibition on wild Spring Chinook Salmon harvest on the main-stem Umpqua River.