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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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

It’s curtains for the sockeye salmon season on the Hanford Reach and the Upper Columbia River. Anglers have met the maximum recreational harvest allocation for sockeye in that part of the ...

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.

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 ...