CLACKAMAS, Ore. (KPTV) - This year anglers will be able to use their two-rod validation in the Willamette River for hatchery spring Chinook and all other fish except sturgeon, starting March 1 ...

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has reopened the Willamette River to fishing for Chinook salmon. The department made the announcement Thursday from Clackamas. The Willamette fishery had ...

SALEM - Citing low numbers of spring chinook salmon passing over Willamette Falls and a lower than expected proportion of hatchery fish in angler surveys and ladder counts to date, fish managers at ...

Spring chinook anglers will get to use two rods each in the lower Willamette River this season, starting March 1, and also upriver from Willamette Falls, including all tributaries, beginning May 1. As ...

Oregon and Washington state fisheries managers have finalized and announced the recreational spring Chinook salmon season on the Columbia River for 2024. Anglers will get to fish the big river for ...

PORTLAND – Fishery managers from Oregon and Washington this week set spring chinook salmon and sturgeon fishing seasons for the Columbia and Willamette rivers. The Columbia River spring chinook ...

The number of coho salmon that returned to the Upper Willamette Basin in 2023 smashed previous records and provided a bright spot for anglers seeking hook the delicious but enigmatic fish. Just under ...

Spring chinook anglers get another weekend of fishing in the lower Columbia River, with recent catches better downstream than in the metropolitan area. During the five-day extension through April 24, ...

The spring chinook salmon run in Oregon’s Willamette River is improving and expected to be larger in 2010 than in the past few years ‘’It’s on the mend,’’ biologist Chris Kern of the Oregon Department ...