November 26, 2025 8:04 am
Clark County, Outdoors 
A winter sturgeon taken in the Bonneville Pool while fishing with guide Marvin Henkel a few years back. Snow, ice, wind, and cold have been the normal conditions most winters, but warm weather has blown up the fishery in recent years. (Photos courtesy of Marvin’s Guide Service)
A winter-caught Bonneville Pool sturgeon.
A boat limit of keeper sturgeon from the Bonneville Pool. When catches exceeded the quota last year in only one day, managers were forced to close the retention fishery.
Sturgeon anglers will have to wait to fish the Bonneville Pool for keepers, after the states opted to keep the season closed this year until conditions improve and the water cools off. (Photo courtesy of Marvinís Guide Service)
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife set aside the permanent regulations on Wednesday that would have allowed the opening of sturgeon retention in the Bonneville and The Dalles Pools on Jan. 1.
The retention fishery has always opened on New Year’s Day in past years.
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