Imagine a place where trophy walleyes can be caught, fisheries biologists encourage you to keep what you catch, and there is no daily creel limit in effect. Welcome to Oregon, a state where walleyes ...

Lower Columbia River spring Chinook salmon seasons closed June 1, 2023, due to low salmon returns. (Terry Otto for The Columbian) The recreational fishery for spring Chinook salmon and steelhead on ...

An angler shows off a big hatchery steelhead taken on the Cowlitz River. While hatchery winter steelhead are tough to forecast, the wild return of Columbia River winter steelhead is expected to be ...

Fishery managers closed the recreational Chinook and steelhead spring fishing season on the Columbia River downstream of the Bonneville Dam starting Thursday — four days earlier than anticipated.

Skiers and snowmobile riders may lament winter’s tardiness, but the balmy conditions have been a boon for steelhead anglers. Fishing for the ocean-going rainbow trout has been especially good recently ...