OLYMPIA - Good weather and big trout helped to boost catch rates on opening day of this year's lowland lakes fishing season.
Based on creel checks conducted at 112 lakes around the state, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) estimates that anglers caught an average of 3.99 trout on opening day Saturday, April 28.
This is the time of year when new fishing opportunities start popping open like daffodils in the afternoon sun. Shrimp and lingcod in Puget Sound. Halibut there and off the Washington coast. Spring chinook salmon on the Chehalis and Yakima rivers.
OLYMPIA - Anglers will have at least four more days to fish for hatchery-reared spring chinook salmon on a section of the Columbia River stretching 163 miles upstream from Bonneville Dam.
Citing the late timing of this year's run, fishery managers from Washington and Oregon today agreed to extend the fishery through May 6.
Action: Closes Klineline Pond to fishing by the public one day prior to the fishing event as well as the day of the event.
Effective date:
• May 4 - 12:01 a.m., entire pond closed to public fishing
OLYMPIA - The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has expanded the popular fishing area at the mouth of the Wind River by moving the outside boundary about 250 yards out into the Columbia River.