OREGON, USA — There’s a well-worn adage that goes: “It’s the early bird that catches the worm!” In the great Oregon outdoors, I have discovered the saying also holds true for catching big fish! It’s a ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Known for its diverse runs of salmon, the Columbia River draws thousands of anglers to test their luck each year. But with salmon runs nowhere near what they once were, fishing is ...

Spring Chinook salmon fishing is reopening on the lower Columbia River for two weekends in May and four days in June, it was announced Wednesday, May 15, 2024, by Washington and Oregon fishery ...

The 53-foot truck rolled down an embankment toward Lookingglass Creek. Photograph courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Some 102,000 spring Chinook salmon smolts destined for the Imnaha ...

September’s coho rodeo off the central Oregon coast just got rowdy for a little longer. The preseason quota for an any-coho season, 25,000 legal-sized fish, has been boosted to 30,700. Beginning Sept.

CLATSOP, Oregon — Here’s a way to beat the heat at the No. 1 summertime salmon angling spot in the Northwest: It’s a place marked by big water, lots of elbow room across soft, sandy shore and ...

From offshore trolling to pier casting and river wading, here’s how to catch bruiser Great Lakes kings during their fall movement toward shore. Fall is trophy king salmon season for Great Lakes ...

A tanker truck overturned in Northeast Oregon on Friday and spilled over 100,000 live salmon — most of which landed in a nearby creek and lived to swim another day, officials said. The 53-foot truck ...

Co-management of a Chinook salmon hatchery on the Coquille river in southwest Oregon has helped the fish population thrive again. That means Chinook fishing could soon return. Natural populations of ...

Washington and Oregon are sharing in the cost of replacing the Hood River-White Salmon Bridge in the Columbia River Gorge. The bridge is about a century old. (Photo by edb3_16/Getty Images) The Oregon ...