With the prospect of excellent runs taking shape, the Buoy 10 season for 2025 should offer plenty of opportunities to bring home both chinook and coho salmon.
While not quite official, I expect the Buoy 10 season to start on August 1 as usual, and it’s looking reasonable that it’ll run into early September for chinook and longer for hatchery coho. Some folks are passing along whispers that even non-clipped chinook will be open to harvest during early August and again in late August/early September.
I will update all of this when the official seasons are released in May.
Additionally, tentative seasons have been set for the ocean fishery, which starts ahead of the usual August kickoff at Buoy 10.
This will also become official next month.
Off the mouth of the Columbia River, where I’ll be fishing in July and probably some in early August, depending on safe boating conditions and the best bites, salmon fishing will begin June 25 and continue into the early fall unless we catch too many!
Sport anglers can harvest 16,600 chinook and 49,860 fin-clipped coho (silvers), both more generous than last year’s guidelines. There are more restrictions on when you can keep a chinook (never more than one per day), which will be allowed for the first several weeks and again in September and October, when most of us are fishing around Buoy 10 or farther upriver anyway.
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