One day only: Little Goose chinook fishery to reopen today

Washington will briefly reopen its spring chinook fishery below Little Goose Dam on the lower Snake River on today.

The short-notice, one-day season will carry a four-fish bag limit with a maximum of two adult chinook. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife transferred some of its remaining spring chinook harvest quota from the lower Columbia River to the Snake River to make the fishery possible.

Chris Donley, fish program manager for the department’s eastern region, said there are likely some spring chinook below the dam that stalled there because of high flows related to spill designed to benefit migrating juvenile salmon and steelhead.

He said the opportunity is limited to one day because too many wild chinook bound for the upper Salmon River are present after the first week of June.