WHITE SALMON — For 60 of his 80 years, Vern Musgrove has been fishing at Drano Lake, a backwater off the Bonneville Reservoir where the Little White Salmon River flows into the Columbia River. The ...

This platform is on the west shore of Drano Lake just north of state Highway 14. Most of the platforms are on the west side of the lake. COOK — Tribal fishermen have built about a dozen platforms ...

COOK, Wash. — Tribal fishermen have built about a dozen platforms off the Columbia River along Drano Lake, a move likely to spark conflict with long-standing non-Indian salmon and steelhead fisheries.

YAKIMA, Wash. -- I can’t remember the exact year I first went to Drano Lake and fished for summer steelhead, but it was sometime in the 1970’s. Probably 1978. I know it was a long time ago. I do ...

State and tribal biologists are forecasting below average returns of spring chinook salmon to the Wind River and Drano Lake in the Columbia Gorge in 2017. Forecasts released last week predict a return ...

Elochoman River from the mouth to the Elochoman Hatchery Bridge, Green River from the mouth to 400’ below the water intake at the upper end of the hatchery and South Fork Toutle River from the mouth ...

No, it doesn’t produce all the magic moments we all look for when chasing steelhead — no standing navel-deep in 33-degree water, no ice in the guides, no leak in the waders, no numb fingers — but it ...

Weak returns of spring chinook salmon are predicted for the Wind River and Drano Lake in Skamania County, a not-surprising forecast given the low return expected to the Columbia River upstream of ...

It may not break any records, but the run of fall chinook salmon now making its way up the Columbia River is coming like gangbusters. Last week, the daily count jumped to over 10,000 adult chinook ...

With the Lower Columbia spring chinook fishery winding down soon, many anglers will begin focusing their attention on tributaries above Bonneville Dam. State Fish and Wildlife managers are predicting ...