!–paging_filter–pMarch is the time to plan a pilgrimage in honor of Northwest royalty. Spring-run chinook salmon—known as spring kings, or springers—are pushing up the lower Columbia River right now, ...

The always-anticipated and popular spring chinook fishing season on several rivers in the mid-Columbia open for fishing this Saturday. Unfortunately, with less than five salmon counted through the ...

Anglers check their catch of a spring Chinook in the Columbia River off Hayden Island downstream of the BNSF railroad bridge a few years ago. The 2023 season has been extended four days to April 11, ...

More than 1,200 adult spring-run Chinook salmon meant to return to the San Joaquin River ended up in the Tuolumne River instead, prompting a five-part rescue operation. The fish were originally ...

It is finally feeling like spring around here, and if you are a spring salmon lover, like I am, it is REALLY feeling like spring. Ever since I caught my first spring chinook salmon at the mouth of the ...

Spring chinook salmon angling in the Columbia River will be open Friday, May 19, through Wednesday, May 24, with a chance of more fishing in late May or early June. Washington and Oregon officials ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity and Pacific Rivers filed a petition today to protect Washington coast spring-run Chinook salmon under the federal Endangered Species Act. The ...

BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho Department of Fish and Game forecasts a larger-than-average run of Chinook salmon this spring, and about a month from now, anglers may begin catching some of them. The Idaho ...