CRAIG HILL
Craig Hill is The News Tribune’s injury-prone Adventure writer. After eight years covering college football and basketball, he started writing about adventure sports in 2004. He writes about everything from mountaineering and cycling to skiing and camping. You can reach him at craig.hill@thenewstribune.com
JEFFREY P. MAYOR
Jeffrey P. Mayor has been The News Tribune’s Adventure editor since 2003, and oversees our weekly Adventure section. His coverage focuses on fishing, hunting, Mount Rainier and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. You can reach him at jeff.mayor@thenewstribune.com
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After weeks of exceptional salmon fishing, fishery managers for Washington and Oregon this afternoon announced they will close the spring chinook fishery on the lower Columbia River beginning Monday, when anglers are expected to reach their pre-season catch target.
By then, the sport catch from the west Hayden powerlines upriver to Bonneville Dam is expected to reach a total of 22,300 fish -- about 2,000 more fish than anglers had been expected to catch through the end of April.
Spring chinook fishing will close from the Hayden Island west powerlines upstream to Bonneville Dam at 12:01 a.m. April 21. Fishing for steelhead and shad will also close at the same time in that area.
Fishery managers will continue to monitor the status of the spring chinook run on a daily basis and will consider re-opening those fisheries if returns are larger than expected. That determination will be made later this month or early May, after a greater portion of the run has arrived.
Meanwhile, fisheries will remain open for hatchery spring chinook salmon on Columbia River tributaries, including the Cowlitz, Kalama, Lewis, Wind and Klickitat rivers, as well as Drano Lake. The Columbia River above Bonneville Dam also will remain open to salmon fishing.
About 269,300 upriver spring chinook were forecast to return this year, one of the largest runs in recent years.
Reader "RickB" has pointed out that the Mount Tahoma Trails Association has updated its website with information about the Snow Bowl Hut fire. Included is information on how you can help the association recover.
