Oregon and Washington Fishing Guide

I have been doing my homework and found out the 2010 Rules on Sturgeon fishing in Oregon and Washington.

Remember the fish and wildlife can change rules at any time, so before you go out check and see the current rules for the area you will be fishing.

The Columbia River begins its 1,243-mile (2,000 km) journey in the southern Rocky Mountain Trench in British Columbia (BC). Columbia Lake, 2,690 feet (820 m) above sea level, and the adjoining Columbia Wetlands form the river’s headwaters. The trench is a broad, deep, and long glacial valley between the Canadian Rockies and the Columbia Mountains in BC. For its first 200 miles (320 km), the Columbia flows northwest along the trench through Windermere Lake and the town of Invermere, a region known in BC as the Columbia Valley, then northwest to Golden and into Kinbasket Lake. Rounding the northern end of the Selkirk Mountains, the river turns sharply south through a region known as the Big Bend Country, passing through Revelstoke Lake and the Arrow Lakes. Revelstoke, the Big Bend, and the Columbia Valley combined are referred to in BC parlance as the Columbia Country. Below the Arrow Lakes, the Columbia passes the cities of Castlegar, located at the Columbia’s confluence with the Kootenay River, and Trail, two major centres of the West Kootenay region. The Pend Oreille River joins the Columbia about 2 miles (3 km) north of the U.S.–Canada border.

Catching Dungeness Crab on the Oregon Coast is a year-round sport in the estuaries, coastal rivers and tidal bays.
The best weather to go in is mild to sunny weather. Sustained rains bring fresh water. They are salt-water creatures and heavy rains force them out to sea because of the sudden lack of salt water.

Time to Start fishing Tillamook Bay for King Salmon. Don’t forget to put some crab pots in the water.

I like to drop my crab pots on the north side of the south jetty.

Then I start to salmon fish on the bar right by the coast guard tower.

Columbia River salmon fishing started today August 1-09.
Fist spot to fish for King Salmon on the Columbia river would be Astoria Oregon.

If you want to fish for the salmon in the Portland area on the Columbia River you will have to wait for the end of August for best fishing.

Fishing report on the Columbia River in the Portland Oregon area by fishing guide Marvin.

The steelhead fishing on the Columbia River has been really good. I have been fishing at the oak tree in about 10 or 12 feet of water.

Sturgeon fishing on the Columbia river in Oregon was a blast on Friday.
I had for clients fishing on my boat on the Columbia river.
we started out fishing for steelhead but fishing was slow so we went down the Columbia river about 5 miles or so to Horsetail falls and stared to fish for sturgeon.

well I had 2 days of steelhead fishing on the Columbia river, I was fishing in the Columbia River gorge.
Fishing was good the first fish we caught was a salmon so had to let that on go.

August is the time to start salmon fishing boy 10. We are expecting great runs of salmon this year also the coho fishing is gonna be great.

I like to fish at buoy 10 on an incoming tide.I troll with a delta diver, flasher and either a whole hearing or a cut plug hearing.

Sturgeon fishing in the Columbia river over the weekend was fair.
Shad fishing was slow even though you could get some for bate.
Salmon fishing on the Columbia river will open up June 22.

There are about a 1000 salmon a day going over the dam.
this is a good time to do a half day salmon and a half day of sturgeon fishing.