Summary: Nearly a million silver-sided king salmon will soon leave the ocean and swim up the Columbia River. It’s a huge run of salmon that’s hard for anglers to resist. When the deck is stacked in your favor and you play your hand just right, the fishing game will often go just the way you like. We teamed up to troll for salmon where the river flows it’s widest: near Astoria where it is more than 5 miles from shore to shore. We motored along just upriver from fabled fishing landscape nicknamed “Buoy 10” where each August, the ocean fresh salmon schools move through the river on each incoming tide.
