In Season ODFW Regulation Updates 2026

Columbia Rive:

4/9/26 CLACKAMAS, Ore.—Fishery managers from Oregon and Washington took joint state action today to add another three days of recreational spring Chinook salmon fishing in the mainstem Columbia River downstream of Bonneville Dam. This fishery had closed on Wednesday, April 8 per the preseason schedule adopted in February.  

With the additional days, the following regulations are in effect: 

Dates: Chinook retention allowed Saturday, April 11 – Monday, April 13 

Buoy 10 upstream to Bonneville Dam

• Effective Sunday, March 1 – Wednesday, April 8: the following area, retention, and daily bag limit regulations apply:
  • Area definition: Buoy 10 line upstream to 
  • Beacon Rock plus only the Oregon and Washington banks from Beacon Rock upstream to the Bonneville Dam deadline.
    • Legal upstream boat boundary defined as: A deadline marker on the Oregon bank (approximately four miles downstream from Bonneville Dam Powerhouse One) in a straight line through the western tip of Pierce Island to a deadline marker on the Washington bank at Beacon Rock.
  • Retention allowed: open for hatchery Chinook and hatchery steelhead. Shad may also be retained.
  • Daily adult bag limit: two adult hatchery salmonids (Chinook or steelhead) per day, but only one may be a Chinook.
  • All other permanent regulations apply.