A fisherman swings his fly through a run while fishing the Lower Deschutes. It has been a good year for fish returns in the Columbia River, and the high numbers of summer steelhead passing through ...

We slid down out of a tail-out and into the next riffle. I was in the bow, tilted into the front brace, rod up. “Cast left, this side the fast water.” Cole McAuliffe, 23 and of Chrome Tales Guide ...

Over the past few years, summer steelhead fishing on the North Santiam River has been so bad that longtime guide Mike Ferris decided to stay home and buy a lottery ticket. “I figured that I had the ...

Anglers in the popular Buoy 10 fishery at the mouth of the Columbia River will be limited to keeping only hatchery chinook and hatchery coho salmon during the 2023 summer season. (The Columbian files) ...

THE beginnings of the average Western river are pretty inconsequential — a trickle through a mountain meadow; a brook purling through a canyon strewn with boulders, with an occasional cascade over ...

A fish, possibly a summer steelhead or coho salmon, attempts to leap Lucia Falls. (Photos by Taylor Balkom/The Columbian) The fishing season on the Lower Columbia River for salmon and steelhead has ...

THE DALLES, Ore. (KTVZ) — Salmon, steelhead, trout and bass fishing will be open under normal permanent regulations starting Aug. 15 on the lower Deschutes River from Moody Rapids upstream to Pelton ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- It might take fishermen a while to get to the deeper waters of Lake Erie off Vermilion, Avon Lake and Cleveland, but this month’s tremendous steelhead trout fishing has made the ...

Estimates slashed by nearly 2/3; 'We're in uncharted territory here' SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — In response to extremely low returns to date of Columbia Basin upriver summer steelhead, the Oregon Department ...

Summer steelhead fishing will close Sept. 1 on the lower Deschutes River and major segments of three other Columbia River tributaries, the John Day, Umatilla and Walla Walla rivers. Biologists said ...