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Section Below Bonneville Dam on Columbia
Now Accessible for Boat Anglers

by Mark Yuasa
Seattle Times, June 10, 2016

Boat anglers may now fish below Bonneville Dam for spring chinook and steelhead. Photo courtesy of The Seattle Times archive. Boat anglers will now have access to an area just below Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River to pursue spring chinook and steelhead.

State Fish and Wildlife has lifted the boat boundary from Beacon Rock up to Bonneville Dam. This covers an area from the deadline marker on the Oregon bank (approximately four miles downstream from Bonneville Dam Powerhouse One) in a straight line through the western tip of Pierce Island to a deadline marker on the Washington bank at Beacon Rock.

The daily limit is six fish – hatchery chinook or hatchery steelhead. No more than two may be adult chinook or steelhead, and no more than one may be an adult chinook. Salmon minimum size limit is 12 inches.


Mark Yuasa
Section Below Bonneville Dam on Columbia Now Accessible for Boat Anglers
Seattle Times, June 10, 2016

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