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 Hanford Reach of the Columbia River is gearing up for its 2025 salmon fishing season, a prime opportunity for anglers to reel in sockeye in one of Washington’s most scenic waterways. Kicking off ...

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.

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 Hanford Reach National Monument, established in 2000, is a crescent of land with the last free-flowing stretch of the Columbia River flowing through it. It’s also a major incubator of salmon.

Jun. 21—From staff reports Summer chinook salmon, sockeye and steelhead fishing has opened on sections of the Columbia River through July 31 from the Astoria-Megler Bridge to U.S. Highway 395 ...

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 ...