Ilwaco sits on the inside edge of a peninsula called Cape Disappointment, and the name is appropriate. The community revolves around the fishing industry, which in turn relies on acceptable weather ...

Herring and saury are the bait of choice for bottom fishing. ILWACO — The movie “Grease” was just beginning to grace screens across the country. Pete Rose had just reached his 3,000th hit. A gallon of ...

Saltwater fishing is hot at Ilwaco and Westport. It has also been good at Sekiu for pink salmon. Ilwaco charters are limiting very early with mostly silvers and a few chinook. The story is the same at ...

Commercial fishermen will take a hit, but abundant sports salmon fishing opportunity should swell the coastal economies on the Washington Coast this summer. Catch quotas set last week by the Pacific ...

ILWACO – Turning a salmon-fishing dream into reality can still take place in late summer off the southwestern coast. For the past few weeks, salmon entering the Lower Columbia River have been steadily ...

FISHING -- Reports from the first week of the ocean salmon fishing season off the Washington Coast confirm the predictions that this is a season for the record books. "At Marine Area 1 (Ilwaco), ...