Chinook have crossed over Bonneville Dam, and the daily counts are climbing. With the lower Columbia River closed, the fisheries of Drano Lake and the Wind River are now the hot pl ...

The park has at least seven beaches, including Platte Point Beach, where the Platte River flows into Lake Michigan and the waters merge. Beach fires are permitted only on mainland Lake Michigan ...

Lower Columbia River ... rods kept 45 steelhead and released one steelhead. Kalama River — Four bank rods had no catch. Lacamas Lake — 3,084 rainbow, 2.20 fish per pound from Vancouver ...

From that lake, which covers more than a dozen kilometres of a trench that carves north-south through the Rocky Mountains, runs the Columbia River, the mightiest waterway in the Pacific Northwest.