PACIFIC NORTHWEST RIVERS & LAKES FISHING MAP
Fishing Hot Spots
Salmon and steelhead rivers, trout water and big inland lakes in Washington, Idaho and Oregon: the Columbia and Snake, the Olympic Peninsula, the eastern Washington lakes, north Idaho, the Deschutes, the Willamette and Klamath. Tap any star or dot to see what it is and what to fish there.
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Parks & rules
Safety: these are planning references. Use current official charts, weather and marine alerts and proper safety equipment before heading out.
Lake guides for this map
Month-by-month patterns, fish, ramps and rules for each water:
Fishing Hot Spots by area
Rivers and lakes. Tap one to fly to it on the map.
Salmon, steelhead and big inland lakes
The Columbia and Snake rivers carry chinook, coho and steelhead runs from spring through winter, plus a huge shad run and white sturgeon. The Hanford Reach is the last free-flowing stretch of the Columbia and has its biggest wild fall chinook run. On the Olympic Peninsula, the rivers around Forks are famous for wild winter steelhead.
Inland, Lake Roosevelt, Banks Lake and Potholes are walleye and bass water, Lake Chelan and Pend Oreille hold lake trout and kokanee, and the Yakima, the Deschutes and Upper Klamath Lake grow wild rainbow trout.
Rules: salmon, steelhead and sturgeon seasons change by emergency rule, many rivers have catch-and-release or selective-gear sections, the lower Deschutes is fished from the bank only, and tribal waters need tribal permits. Always check before you go.
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Map sources & checks
- Coverage
- Pacific Northwest Rivers & Lakes. Mapped features come from public datasets and can be incomplete or out of date: a missing reef, ramp or wreck does not mean it is not there.
- Map data
- OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) — retrieved October 7, 2026
- World Database on Protected Areas (UNEP-WCMC & IUCN), Protected Planet — retrieved October 7, 2026 (license: Protected Planet terms)
- Hot spots
- 17 hot spots, each with its own source (tap any star to see it): OpenStreetMap/Nominatim named place (general position, not a pinpoint) (17).
- Protected areas
- 10 protected areas from the official list above, drawn in dashed red. Fishing rules inside them are set by the managing agency; check with them before you fish.
- Chart layers (Charts button)
- GEBCO ocean depth and OpenSeaMap buoys, lights and markers. GEBCO and OpenSeaMap are useful references, not official navigation charts.
- Weather & tides
- See Weather & Tides for this area: NOAA/NWS forecasts, NOAA buoys and NOAA Tides & Currents, with Open-Meteo models where NOAA has no station.
- Dates
- This page last updated October 15, 2026. Each dataset keeps its own retrieval date, shown above.
⚠️ Planning reference only, not for navigation. Use current official charts, weather and marine alerts, and proper safety gear before heading out.
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