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Check for places near you stocking for Free Fishing Weekend, and all year stocking.
By Bill Monroe For The Oregonian/OregonLive
The Columbia is closed to all salmon and steelhead sportfishing. The aluminum fleet of the week before is off the water. Some are feeling fortunate about a few salmon steaks in the freezer, some head a couple hundred miles west to squeeze the last several weeks of fall chinook season from their dwindling calendars.
Others are home, moaning about the closures, the year's disappointing tuna season, buoy 10's Quixotic results and low runs.
First trip of 2018 to the CR Buoy this year. The ocean was rougher than forecast.
Given local conditions, and slow reports from the coast, decided to bottom fish on Sunday, June 3, 2018. Well, about 10 seconds into fishing, Jeff has a fish on, a beautiful Chinook, took a jig on his first drop!
Update Columbia River salmon, steelhead fisheries listed in the 2017-18 Sport Fishing Rules pamphlet
Action: Update Columbia River salmon and steelhead seasons listed in the 2017-18 Sport Fishing Rules pamphlet.
Effective dates: June 16 through June 30, 2018. Species affected: Salmon, steelhead.
Last Sunday out of Garibaldi. We got our six ling cod in fairly short order, and released a few orange fish and small lings. Weird thing is, never caught even one black rockfish.
Hagg Lake was stocked couple days ago with over 14,000 fish ranging in size from 4 - 24 inches.
Great weekend to get out there and enjoy the lake and the fishing with friends and family.
Had to relocate once or twice to find a bite, and marked a few spots on the GPS. It was then only a matter of time before we had our 15 bottom fish and a few ling cod.