Bill Monroe Outdoors

🚨 Open dates listing! 🚨 Plz Share away here folks…. Cuz WE wanna take YOU fishing 🫡🎣⚓️ Not only that, but we’ll spend the extra fuel costs to make sure you get out at our regular rates still… ⛽️✔️

Ready to Plan your summer and fall fishing options??? Well, we got you covered!! 💯%

July is ALMOST here!! (Epic Ocean Salmon?)
So is AUGUST (the infamous Bouy-10?)
For that matter, SO is September (Bouy-10 and CR Gorge Bonneville to Hood River Salmon?)

Here is a comprehensive list of ALL Summer and Fall remaining open dates for you to choose from:

July Salmon fishing:
-Mon July 6
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-Friday July 10, (4 seats)
-Thurs July 16
-Wed July 22
-Fri July 24
-Mon July 27
-Wed July 29
-Thurs July 30

August Bouy-10 salmon fishing:
-Wed Aug 5
-Mon Aug 10
-Tues Aug 11
-Wed Aug 19
-Sun Aug 23
-Wed Aug 26

Sept upriver Bonneville & HR salmon fishing:
-Tues Sept 1 (B-10)
-Tues Sept 8
-Wed Sept 9
-Thurs Sept 10
-Fri Sept 11
-Sun Sept 13
-Mon Sept 14

BONUS: Wild coho salmon retention fishing days: (limited fishery)
Oct 1st
Oct 3rd
Oct 4th
Oct 8th
Oct 9th
Oct 10th
Oct 11th
Oct 12th
Oct 15th

As always, call, text, Email, PM, FB or Website!! We’ll make something happen….
503-702-4028
[email protected]
FB/BillMonroeOutdoors
www.billmonroeoutdoors.com

Something DIFFERENT for a change: Interested in OCEAN fisheries off of marine zone 1? NOAA & NMFS has added EXTRA Halibut retention days for Columbia zone 1 on the following days listed in the official Bulletin notice! ✔️

G’luck to all who decide to take advantage of this additional fishery. ⚓️🎣

UPDATED JUNE 3rd- 2:45pm. Season approved as stated below in 2nd image.

Upper Columbia based spring & summer run stock fish are not in peril until otherwise noted outside each management periods’ needs. The lower AND upper CR recreational salmon fisheries operate on three distinct management periods: Spring period, Summer period, and Fall period. The Spring portion management period runs THROUGH JUNE 16th. That is still the current management Structure we’re in and it will be managed as such. The entire lower CR will NOT have a summer chinook fishery at all…. No June hogs, no July either. Nothing until August 1st. That’s a huge loss for the lower river in concerns of summer chinook forecasts.

ID’s hatchery and broodstoock objectives (for one given hatchery that is), have not been met for well over 10 years- so that is nothing new to this years current spring stock & runs and they still get summer chinook fisheries based off of that fact being in the room like they always have, and also they noted the dynamic styles and designs of Columba River fisheries management will always have to be fluid and adjust constantly. This year is NO different in being dynamically able to adjust given the forecasts and management periods. It’s not easy and frankly never has been or never will be….
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Spring chinook? Columbia River? More time to fish for Springers possibly? We shall see…. 🙏🏼🎣

Updates posted here as always.

🚨🎣 REMINDER & Something to BOOKMARK 🎣🚨 Interested in the upcoming 2026 Off-Columbia River marine zone #1 Ocean AND inside Bouy-10 to the whole upriver summer & fall salmon fisheries final regulations to keep for yourselves for the rest of the year? 🙏🏼

Don’t forget- the ocean off the CR officially opens JUNE 20th, and then the below image also mentions the FULL inside-the-river portion for Bouy-10 & up that opens as usual on 8/1….

🚨 Anyone ready for Shad (AND NOW WITH SOME ADDED SALMON INCLUDED) action?? 🚨 W/ 20,000 PLUS shad crossing Bonneville daily now, We’re opening up Some BMO discounted June Shad trip specials…. Want to do some fishing trips that are packed with constant action? How about trips that are ideal for kids? How about catching your own crabbing bait? Well you’re in luck!! I’m pretty sure we won’t lose the kiddos’ attention with these June options coming up this month!! These kinda trips have even shown my kids though the years how to get tired of catching TOO much fish, haha! 😎🎣🔥

June 13th w/ Salmon
June 14th w/ Salmon
June 15th LAST day w/salmon
June 20th
June 22nd
June 24/25/26/27th as well until shad run ends.

Call/Text/PM/Email/Website for possible options coming up for the whole month of June!

503-702-4028
FB/billmonroeoutdoors
[email protected]
www.billmonroeoutdoors.com

4.5” of angry bird beard….. it’s not quite the full TOM we were looking for to end our Spring turkey season. Buuuut- We’ll take the Jake-a-Saurus-Rex (not quite the 6”), to cap the season. In all, there’s just something about these hunts. The sunrises, the calling, getting some new hunters into it, family, friends and so many more. And not to mention the heavenly eats and table fare that comes of it…. Turkey hunting is just different….. until next Spring, we’ll watch the moms (hens) do their mom thing. 😎🙏🏼

40 years….. yep, this year marks 40 years of the best of the best in Aluminum Fishing boats excellence. And 7 years now of one of the true legends of fishing & advocacy here in the PNW, that left us too soon…. (Soon to be forever memorialized on his favorite river with a tribute at Carver boat ramp) ⚓️🎣
We pay homage to these two absolute icons of the Outdoor and Sportfishing worlds that are now gone, but literally in every sense of the word, not FORGOTTEN. 🙏🏼🙏🏼

Willie Boats Inc.

Interested in recreational Columbia River Spring Chinook fisheries & fishing? A meeting to discuss (a now recommendation to allow for one extra day below Bonneville and two extra days above Bonneville), some recent developments after a slower then usual re-opener last weekend (some inconveniently timed spill related reasons of course), is now scheduled for tomorrow, Tues May 19th after TAC met today to yet again adjust the 2026 Spring chinook run update.

Stay tuned as always & will be updated here…. 🙏🏼🎣