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ODFW Opens Big Creek 2021 Hatchery Coho Salmon Early


Submitted by:  TBC Press
Posted on: 10/04/21
News # 14555
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Big Creek (lower Columbia River tributary east of Astoria) opened to fishing more than two weeks early (Oct 1) to allow anglers to access an expected large hatchery coho salmon run and surplus hatchery Chinook salmon.

Big Creek is typically open from the mouth (including the railroad trestle near the mouth) to the hatchery deadline Oct. 16-Dec. 31 for hatchery Chinook, hatchery steelhead and hatchery coho.

Under temporary rules adopted by ODFW for 2021, it will be open for from Oct. 1 through the end of the year.

"The large hatchery coho run has been a bright spot for fishing this year, and as we've already met our hatchery Chinook broodstock needs, we want to give anglers a two-week head start on fall fishing," said Robert Bradley.