If the Pacific Fishery Management Council is right, we could see plenty of salmon like the one pictured here with Dee Lehman of Eureka swimming off our coast this year. The recreational ocean salmon season is tentatively scheduled to open on May 25, and will last into early September. The final decision will be come from the PFMC meeting being held in April.

Ocean salmon

Sue McCormack of Victor, Montana landed this jack salmon last fall while fishing the Klamath River. The number of returning jacks (two year-old kings) to the Klamath basin were below average last year, which could indicate a smaller run size this fall.

A recent plant of 70,000 King salmon in Shasta will boost Shasta's salmon fishing in the years ahead and we're already catching them fairly often.

Gary Chapman of Brookings rang in the New Year with a surprise Chinook salmon while side-drifting the Chetco River with guide Harvey Young.

Limits of King salmon on the Sacramento River near Anderson, Ca. today! This is your last week to fish for river salmon in the Central Valley!