A one-day retention season for sturgeon was held on Monday in the Columbia River’s Bonneville Pool, and although anglers did catch the lion’s share of the catch quota, they did not blow past the quota ...

Columbia spring Chinook managers will consider a season on the river below Bonneville Dam that would run through April 8 and an April 1-26+May 2 Columbia Gorge season.

Anglers got a sturgeon retention season in the Bonneville and The Dalles pools in 2025. However, both only lasted one day. The Bonneville Pool fishery has exploded in popularity, mostly because the ...

WDFW and ODFW Director representatives today approved the Lower Columbia, Columbia Gorge and SAFE spring Chinook fisheries as recommended by staff, and they also approved two more days of The Dalles ...

PORTLAND — Sturgeon fishing will not open as usual on Jan. 1, 2026, for the Bonneville and The Dalles pools on the Columbia River. Fishery managers in Oregon and Washington decided during a hearing on ...

CLACKAMAS - Oregon and Washington fishery managers today announced the closure of sturgeon retention in the John Day Reservoir and adjacent tributaries of the Columbia River, effective 12:01 a.m. on ...

Herman the Sturgeon is a star attraction in his special vandal-proof habitat at Bonneville Dam. No fishing for any salmon or steelhead downriver of the dam will be allowed from Friday morning until ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. – Oregon and Washington fishery managers re-opened the Bonneville Pool on the Columbia River to sturgeon retention for two weeks beginning Feb. 1. The decision was made at a meeting ...