Year after year it receives massive runs of Spring Chinook, Summer Chinook, Summer Steelhead, sockeye, Fall Chinook, and Coho Salmon, not to mention bass, walleye, and shad. Limits A resident license of either Oregon or Washington is required.

Shad angling and retention opens throughout the lower Columbia downstream of Bonneville Dam on May 16.

Fishing on the Columbia River is without a doubt the best salmon, steelhead, and sturgeon fishing in the lower 48. Columbia River Trout Fishing.

Fishing instruments must not penetrate the shell. Most of the Columbia River in Washington and Oregon runs too warm in the summertime to sustain great trout fishing, but there are some big native rainbow trout (and the rarer bull trout) in the mainstem in far north-central Washington, above Lake Roosevelt …

Crab fishers may fish for crab in Oregon waters under Oregon rules and land into Washington ports of the Columbia River. Columbia River Compact The Columbia River Compact is charged by congressional and statutory authority to adopt seasons and rules for Columbia River commercial and recreational fisheries.