Snake River Spring Chinook 2025. Snake River closes for spring chinook fishing after inseason data 2024 Results 2025 Expectations Willamette Spring Chinook 48,800 forecasted adult return to CR (19% wild) 37,737 actual adult return (77% of forecast; 26% wild) As noted in the report, the Spring Chinook period ending was changed from 5/31 to 6/15 to include Snake River Summer Chinook
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The 2025 Snake River spring/summer Chinook forecast is 56,200, a decrease from both the 2024 forecast and actual return of 63,500 and 70,743, respectively I only plan to fish for 3 hours, running two different sardine wrapped plugs in shallow water between 7 -.
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Notably, however, the critical Snake River portion of the forecast is below last year's forecast and actual return, with some 56,200 hatchery and wild fish expected in 2025. By 2020, however, returns fell back to their previous lows. 2024 Results 2025 Expectations Willamette Spring Chinook 48,800 forecasted adult return to CR (19% wild) 37,737 actual adult return (77% of forecast; 26% wild)
Spring chinook season closes early on Snake River TriCity Herald. In 2024, 121,000 adult spring chinook bound for tributaries upstream of Bonneville Dam returned to. Notably, however, the critical Snake River portion of the forecast is below last year's forecast and actual return, with some 56,200 hatchery and wild fish expected in 2025.
Map of the Snake River showing the spring/summer Chinook populations. For consistent comparison of forecast with actual, dam count data prior to 2015 account for the earlier cutoff From then until about 2000, spring Chinook, fall Chinook and steelhead populations all increased by roughly three to four times over