Washington Fishing Calendar

Gold highlighted areas are peak fishing times for salmon & steelhead
in Washington.
ô indicate fishable months. Best sturgeon fishing
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Crab Creek Lakes
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Cowlitz River
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Kalama River |
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Klickitat River
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Puget Sound
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Quillayute System
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Queets River
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Skagit River
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Stillaguamish River
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Sauk River
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Skykomish River
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Snoqualmie River
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Wind River /
Drano |
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Yale
Reservoir (Kokanee salmon) |
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Yakima River
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Ocean Charters
Salmon / Bottomfish |
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Ocean Charters
Halibut / Tuna (Seasons vary) |
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Crabbing |
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Good Fishing |
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Best
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Columbia River White Sturgeon
Best sturgeon fishing, upper Columbia River above
Bonneville Dam - (January-April).
Mid river, Bonneville to Wauna - (October-March). Lower river Wauna to mouth -
(May-Sept).
Oversize sturgeon (100-300 pounds) below Bonneville Dam - (late April-early
June).
Columbia River Walleye
Best walleye fishing, upper
Columbia River above
Bonneville Dam - (March-October).
Below Bonneville Dam - (July-Sept).
Oregon Whale Watching
By early
April, almost 20 percent of the eastern Pacific population of gray whales are
off the coast of Washington. The rest are strung out along the Pacific Coast of
North America from Central California to SE Alaska on their journey north.
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Washington Fishing Reports
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Dungeness Crab
Fishing Regs
http://wdfw.wa.gov/fish/regs/fishregs.htm
).
Stream-flow conditions:
http://www.nwrfc.noaa.gov/river/river.cgi?zoom?2?1.1.1.1.0_1.1.1.1_1?zoom?62,343?165,253
and
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/WA/nwis/current/?type=flow
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Thanksgiving
traditionally marks the start of the fishery for winter-run hatchery
steelhead , although the season is already under way on several
tributaries to the lower Columbia River. On the Grays River, fishing for
hatchery steelhead opens from the mouth to the Highway 4 Bridge on Nov. 15.
Snake River
hatchery steelhead fishing latest WDFW creel surveys will be posted
at
Snake River Steelhead
Columbia Basin’s Potholes Reservoir
walleye and Big rainbow trout.
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