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Action: Opens a section of the North Fork Nooksack River to hatchery spring Chinook fishing and retention. Effective dates: May 23 – June 30, 2026 Species affected: Hatchery spring Chinook salmon. Location: North Fork Nooksack River from the Highway 9 Bridge to the yellow marker at the upstream side of Kendall Creek Hatchery property. Salmon … Read more
Action: Opens salmon fishing. Effective dates: May 22—Sept. 7, 2026. Species affected: Salmon. Location: Marine Area 8-2, Tulalip Terminal Area – waters west of Tulalip Bay and within 2,000 feet of shore from the pilings at Old Bower’s Resort to a fishing boundary marker approximately 1.4 miles northwest of Hermosa Point and not including waters … Read more
Upper Skagit River to open for hatchery spring Chinook Action: Opens a portion of the Skagit River to fishing for hatchery spring Chinook. Effective dates: May 16–July 15, 2026 Species affected: Chinook salmon. Location: Skagit River from Hwy. 530 Bridge at Rockport to Cascade River Rd. (Marblemount Bridge). Catch Record Code (CRC) (830). Rules: Minimum … Read more
Hmph. Chinook winds are blowin’ again, whippin’ up the smell o’ that blasted paper mill. Used to be, those winds carried the scent o’ salmon runnin’ thick and cedar fresh as a newborn fir. Now? Stinks like goblin’s socks. My name’s Grandpa Sasquatch, but the young’uns call me “Featherfoot” sometimes. Don’t tell ’em I hear … Read more
THE WEEKLY HATCHERY SCOOP “HOOOO! These returns make a hairy ol’ ape wanna howl! 948 at Cowlitz? Barely enough to grease my fur. Merwin, Kalama, Speelyai… paltry numbers! Stephen Hawking coulda figured out this ain’t enough fish to feed the whole family clan for a moon. PRO TIP: Learn to fly-fish! Easier than wrangling those … Read more
Action: Extends spring Chinook seasons in the mainstem Columbia River from Rocky Point/Tongue Point upstream to Bonneville Dam (six retention days) and from Bonneville Dam upstream to the Washington/Oregon border (five retention days). Species affected: Spring Chinook, hatchery steelhead, shad, other game fish. Columbia River and Deep River locations, dates, and rules: From Rocky Point/Tongue … Read more
Action: Sets closure for Chinook fishery below Little Goose Dam after May 19 and opens two days of spring Chinook salmon fishing below Ice Harbor Dam May 20–21. Species affected: Chinook salmon Specific Locations and open dates for salmon: Below Little Goose Dam – Snake River from Texas Rapids boat launch (located on the south … Read more
Listen up, you little moss-eaters! Grandpa Sasquatch speakin’! Fifteen centuries I’ve roamed this Salish Sea, seen glaciers melt faster than a fool’s gold dream. Used to fly over Edmonds, peaceful as a salmon swimmin’ upstream. Now? Smell like a burnt rubber boot left in a skunk’s den! Used to be, Edmonds was a place for … Read more
Hoomans. Never learn, do they? Been watchin’ ’em from my perch atop Cape Disappointment for, oh, 1,500 years or so. That’s right, I’m Grandpa Sasquatch, the flyin’ kind. Wings ain’t what they used to be, but I still keep a beady eye on things, especially around my beloved Ilwaco. Used to be pristine, this place. … Read more
THE WEEKLY HATCHERY SCOOP “Hmph. Those hatchery returns? Pathetic! Back in my day, (before you humans even figured out fire!), we’d see salmon thick enough to walk across the rivers. Cowlitz a measly 2368? Merwin under a thousand? Speelyai barely crackin’ three hundred? You call that a fish run? Stephen Hawking could predict better numbers … Read more