Fishing

Liz Hamilton is first and foremost in love with the outdoor harvest experience of fishing and – perhaps surprising to some – hunting, along with collecting other edible bounty available from the Northwest’s natural world, and it all started for her as a young girl fishing for trout with her father.

Early November 2022 coho and Chinook catch stats for select Southwest Washington rivers and the lower half of the Mid-Columbia’s Hanford Reach.

Sec 1 (Bonneville) – 86 bank anglers kept 10 Chinook, five Chinook jacks and released two Chinook, one  coho and one steelhead. 91 boats/260 rods kept 36 Chinook, six Chinook jacks, three coho, one coho  jack and released three Chinook and two coho. 

interviewed anglers from 226 boats (458 anglers) and 69 bank anglers at Ringold with 83 adult chinook, 6 jacks, and 2 coho.