The year is pushing relentlessly toward autumn, and if you haven’t yet participated in this Summer of the Salmon, your choices are dwindling. The current chance, and one of the best, is a short one.
A bit upstream of the Astoria Bridge, on the Washington side of the Columbia River, I chatted with another Buoy 10 angler on Monday who said he’d been fishing eight days and had lost the only fish ...
The largest salmon fishery in the Lower 48 kicks off Aug. 1 at Buoy 10 of the Columbia River, but the season and limits have been reduced because of poor projections for returns of Chinook and coho ...
The celebrated Buoy 10 fishery is a trolling show, and like every other aspect of Buoy 10 fishing, it is complicated. Ask any guide what works, and you will get different answers. Some anglers favor ...
If you don’t think sport fishing, and particularly salmon fishing, is important to people in the Northwest, then you should spend a day or two down at the mouth of the Columbia River near Astoria, Ore ...