March 5, 2026 9:32 am
Clark County, Outdoors 
There has been no sturgeon retention in the lower Columbia for years, a fact that has driven the heavy traffic in the Bonneville retention season. (Photo by Bob Rees)
Limits of keeper sturgeon were the norm for the Bonneville sturgeon retention fishery on Monday. The success rate was 62 percent. (Photo courtesy Marvin’s Guide Service)
Keeper sturgeon in the Bonneville Pool have to be between 38 and 54 inches, fork-length, in order to be kept. Even though retention is usually closed, catch and release fishing is allowed year-round. (Photo couresy Marvinís Guide Service)
Two anglers with keeper sturgeon taken in the Bonneville Pool. They were fishing with guide Marvin Henkel, who said it was a decent fishery, but too crowded. (Photo couresy Marvinís Guide Service)
A one-day retention season for sturgeon was held on Monday in the Columbia River’s Bonneville Pool, and although anglers did catch the lion’s share of the catch quota, they did not blow past the quota during the event, as they did last year.
The fishery was delayed from its usual starting date of Jan. 1, because fisheries managers were afraid that the river conditions at that time were too good to allow the fishery to go forward as is typical.
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