The year is pushing relentlessly toward autumn, and if you haven’t yet participated in this Summer of the Salmon, your choices are dwindling. The current chance, and one of the best, is a short one.

A bit upstream of the Astoria Bridge, on the Washington side of the Columbia River, I chatted with another Buoy 10 angler on Monday who said he’d been fishing eight days and had lost the only fish ...

Potentially one of the best salmon fishing seasons in recent memory is getting off to a good start at the mouth of the Columbia River. Known as "Buoy 10" for the iconic buoy that marks the boundary ...