With the prospect of excellent runs taking shape, the Buoy 10 season for 2025 should offer plenty of opportunities to bring home both chinook and coho salmon.
The Buoy 10 season will kick off as usual on August 1 and will run through September 6 for chinook and through the end of the year for hatchery coho.
As early rumors suggested, any chinook salmon will be available to harvest in the early part of this season (Aug. 1-6) and again at the end (Aug. 26-Sept. 6). In the middle, from Aug. 7th through 25th, chinook must be fin-clipped to be a keeper.
From the opener in August clear through the end of 2025, all coho must be fin-clipped to keep.
You can keep two salmon per day. One of those may be a chinook when that season is open.
Check out the full details here.
The ocean opens earlier.
Off the mouth of the Columbia River, where I’ll be fishing in July and probably some in early August, depending on safe boating conditions and the best bites, salmon fishing will begin June 25 and continue into the early fall unless we catch too many!
Sport anglers can harvest 16,600 chinook and 49,860 fin-clipped coho (silvers), both more generous than last year’s guidelines. There are more restrictions on when you can keep a chinook (never more than one per day), which will be allowed for the first several weeks and again in September and October, when most of us are fishing around Buoy 10 or farther upriver anyway.
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