Once again, fisheries managers have added more fishing days to the 2025 spring chinook salmon fishing on the Columbia River.
This time around, anglers will get more two more weeks to fish the lower Columbia River for chinook salmon starting Friday, May 9, and running through Thursday, May 22. Boat anglers will be able to fish for salmon between Tongue Point/Rocky Point near Astoria clear up to a deadline near Beacon Rock. Bank anglers can fish even farther upriver to a deadline closer to Bonneville Dam.
Additionally, two more days of fishing were added above Bonneville Dam on May 10 and 13.
Other regulations are similar to earlier openings, including a maximum one chinook salmon in a two-salmonid bag that also can include steelhead.
I also fish for spring chinook in the lower Willamette River, which isn’t subject to the same mid-season closures as the Columbia.
Read the Columbia River Action Notice for full details.
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This client caught a spring chinook salmon today while fishing the Columbia River with Marvin’s Guide Service.
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