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Spring Chinook Salmon Fishing Will Be
Open Saturday on Lower Columbia River

by Bill Monroe
The Oregonian, May 25, 2021

(Edward Stratton photo) Parker Ostrom, 12, pulls in a salmon while fishing on the Columbia River near Astoria, Ore. The fall Chinook salmon run on the Columbia River is the largest in the past 75 years--up to 835,000 adult chinook with more than 63,000 fish travelling up the rivers' Bonneville Dam fish ladder on a single day. The bounty of salmon will let officials extend the fishing season on the Lower Columbia River. Spring chinook salmon anglers can fish Saturday on the lower Columbia River.

Oregon and Washington managers approved the one-day season during a phone meeting Tuesday afternoon.

The open area will be from Tongue Point to Bonneville Dam. Bag limits remain the same — a single hatchery chinook and/or steelhead per day.

Upriver from Bonneville Dam, fishing will be open Saturday and Sunday, then closes until June 5-6.

Fishing in the lower river was open last weekend, but biologists believe there are enough fish remaining on the sport quota to allow another day of fishing for the Memorial Day weekend.

Angling will close Sunday and Monday, then reopen Tuesday through June 15, after which summer chinook season begins.

Bill Monroe
Spring Chinook Salmon Fishing Will Be Open Saturday on Lower Columbia River
The Oregonian, May 25, 2021

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