The sturgeon catch-and-keep fishery on the Columbia River in John Day Pool will close after Thursday (March 30) until further notice as sport catch guideline was expected to be achieved by then.

So, state fishery managers this winter have reopened the Columbia River upstream of The Dalles Dam to the Highway 395 Bridge in the Tri-Cities through Dec. 31. Typically, the John Day arm has had ...

Walleye angling is excellent in the The Dalles and John Day pools. Salmon, Steelhead and Shad The salmonid creel program on the lower Columbia has ended for the year and will resume February of 2017.

Reports from Feb. 8: Fishery reports. STURGEON. The Dalles Pool — Estimated harvest 77; percent of guideline 40.5. John Day Pool — Estimated harvest 15; percent of guideline 14.3.

The John Day Pool of the Columbia River was closed to retention of sturgeon on Jan. 20 after reaching its annual harvest quota for the year. From the Bonneville Dam upstream to The Dalles Dam, ...

Sports; Outdoors; Northern pike in John Day Pool apparently was pikeminnow, officials say Thu., Nov. 19, 2015 Northern pikeminnows are Columbia River natives. Dams gave them an unnatural advantage ...

• Lower Columbia River ... • John Day Pool (John Day Dam upstream to McNary Dam): Weekly checking showed three sublegal sturgeon released for 37 bank anglers; ...

UPDATE 11-19-15: The northern pike found in the John Day Pool and mentioned in the NPCC agenda apparently was a northern pikeminnow improperly identified on paper, Washington Department of Fish ...

JOHN DAY, Ore. — A broken lock at the John Day Dam is slowing river traffic on the Columbia River. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers say they found damage to a lower guide wheel Monday, July 25, and ...

It was 1812 and Day and Crooks had made their way to the spot where the present John Day River meets the Columbia River. That location was a huge place of commerce more than 200 years ago.

Current flood risk management operations are limiting outflows at John Day Dam to 450,000 cubic feet per second which is expected to keep the Columbia River at Vancouver just at flood stage.