FISHING --The Grande Ronde River will open to chinook fishing Saturday, June 13, in both Washington and Oregon.

In Washington, anglers can fish from a point one-half mile downstream of Boggan’s Oasis upstream to the Oregon/Washington state line. In Oregon, the season will be open from the state line to Wildcat Bridge.

Jeremy Trump, district fish biologist for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife at Dayton, told Eric Barker of the Lewiston Tribune that there should be some fish to catch.

He noted the river is running low and clear and even though some of the run is still proceeding upstream through the Columbia and Snake rivers, a portion of it should already be in the Grande Ronde.

Anglers fishing the Wallowa River, which opened last week, have already started to catch chinook. The Wallowa is a tributary of the Grande Ronde and enters the river upstream of the areas that will open Saturday.

“They are still coming but there should be some fish in the river,” he said. “They are moving pretty fast through the main stem and they have had fish over Lower Granite Dam.”