Outdoors blog: Buoy 10 update 8/20
Thursday's creel check from the Washington side was 42 boaters with 16 chinook and two coho. There are no numbers yet from Friday, but the fleet of boats in Blind Channel was huge and the bite was...
View ArticleOutdoors blog: Buoy 10 update 8/25
Washington creel sampling for WEdnesday: 85 rods with 35 chinook and 11 coho. Note: Chinook catches were excellent on Wednesday and Thursday just upstream of the Astoria Bridge on the Washington side.
View ArticleOutdoors blog: Buoy 10 update 8/26
Thursday's sampling from the Washington ports: 126 private boaters with 33 chinook and 15 coho; 13 charters boaters with five chinook and one coho. Monday is the final day of chinook retention.
View ArticleOutdoors blog: Trout fishing flop 10/18
I did my annual fall trout-fishing trip at Swift Reservoir last week. Normally the bite is so good that we have a rule requiring changing a lure with each fish. It's a way to spend more time on the...
View ArticleOutdoors blog: Outdoors blog 3/9 spring chinook
Salmon fishing interest keeps building in the lower Columbia River with almost 500 boats and 436 bank rods counted on Thursday's flight. Forty-one boats and 10 bank rods were counted sturgeon fishing....
View ArticleOutdoors blog: No gillnetting (3/12)
There will be no meeting of the Columbia River Compact today to consider a commercial fishing period in the lower river. Test netting on Sunday did not find a high ratio of chinook to steelhead, which...
View ArticleOutdoors blog: Razor clam digging approved
LONG BEACH — Four Washington beaches will be open for razor clam digging on March 24 and three on March 25. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife said marine toxin tests confirmed the clams are...
View ArticleOutdoors blog: No gillnetting 3/19
Washington and Oregon officials have decided not to have a Columbia River Compact meeting today, meaning no gillnetting on Tuesday. Twenty test drifts on Sunday caught 28 chinook and 40 steelhead....
View ArticleOutdoors blog: Bonneville pool sturgeon 6/30
Bonneville pool sturgeon — This is kind of a target-gone-by post, but here are the numbers from the June 15-16 and June 22-23 sturgeon season in the Bonneville pool of the Columbia River. Anglers...
View ArticleOutdoors blog: Commercials bash guides
Odds and ends and other items that didn't make it into the print edition of The Columbian:
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