Mid-May 2026 spring Chinook, steelhead, shad and sturgeon catch stats for the Lower Columbia, select Southwest Washington ...

With the Lower Columbia River spring chinook fishery now closed, anglers can still look at places like the Willamette River in Oregon, which is fair to good. The Willamette Falls water temperature was ...

On a cloudy late May afternoon, Rebecca Van Zandt’s fishing line snagged on something, dragging beneath her canoe. “Am I stuck or do I got a fish? Nope, I’m stuck. That’s all right,” she said with a ...

Once an old-timer told me, “The shad run when the pink dogwood blooms.” We had a pink dogwood in our yard when we lived in Gladstone at the junction of the Clackamas and the Willamette rivers. When we ...