With "largely encouraging" Chinook and coho forecasts, the West Coast ocean salmon fishing council has adopted options for 2026 seasons off Washington, Oregon and the rest of the coast, and here's ...

Even with the Chinook fishery reopening on Friday at Buoy 10, anglers can still look forward to coho. Coho fishing should be very good if the catches in the ocean off the mouth of the Columbia River ...

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.

The first ocean fishing season of 2026 starts Saturday (March 14), with the opening of the bottomfish season in Marine Areas one and two.

Coho salmon are returning in record numbers and spreading into parts of the Upper Willamette Basin they’ve never historically been seen. After a record number of the ocean-going fish entered the river ...

Editor’s note: The story has been clarified to describe more of the impacts to spring and summer salmon fishing season. PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announced ...

Salmon anglers will have increased fishing opportunities on the coast and in the Columbia River this summer, while most recreational fisheries in Puget Sound will be similar to seasons adopted last ...