Each Hanford Reach location, from the I-82 bridge and upstream to Vernita may require a change in technique and gear. For that reason, the salmon fishing arsenal on my boat now consists of ...

Salmon Rules: Minimum size is 12 inches. Daily limit is six including no more than four sockeye. Release all salmon other than sockeye and jack Chinook. Barbless hooks required.

Author Dennis Dauble talks sockeye fishing secrets in Hanford Reach. Get insights for a fruitful adventure in this renowned Columbia River spot.

The lower section of the Hanford Reach (I-182 Bridge upstream to old Hanford townsite powerline) is scheduled to remain open through Dec. 31 to provide the opportunity to target coho.

It’s 10 o’clock on a fine morning in late June, the second week of summer sockeye season in the Hanford Reach. I arrive at the Snyder Street launch to find the parking lot half full.

The WDFW fishing report for the week ending July 29, stated, "The Hanford Reach summer sport fishery has seen some good days and some slower days….." ...

As a result, the bite often slows once Hanford Reach water temperatures climb above 60 F. Because sockeye travel in schools, rod action can be non-stop followed by an indeterminate lull.

Why not? I thought. My 20-ft Hewescraft can fish four rods, salmon were steamrolling into the Hanford Reach, and I had a few upriver brights on my punch card. Confident was my middle name.

SPOKANE, Wash. • The number of fall chinook salmon returning to the Hanford Reach section of the Columbia River this year is the most since dams were constructed in the 1930s, the Bonneville ...

Everyone agrees coho salmon are in dire straits. Last year, the returns were as much as 80 percent below preseason forecasts, according to the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission.

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources stocks coho and Chinook salmon in Waukegan harbor every spring, Nick explains, and when those fish reach three years of age, they return to the area in ...