In Season ODFW Regulation Updates 2026

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.