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Nothing new — the 2025 run is done here.
It finished at 45 chinook on Nov 26, 2025, and none have been counted since. The chart below shows how that run went next to a typical year.
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Currently
58°
Clear · feels like 58°
Mon
Good
67°/55°
wind 8 kt · 33% rain
Tue
Favorable
70°/52°
wind 5 kt · 1% rain
Wed
Favorable
71°/55°
wind 5 kt · 1% rain
Thu
Good
63°/53°
wind 7 kt · 5% rain
Fri
Favorable
61°/50°
wind 5 kt · 18% rain
Sat
Good
64°/51°
wind 9 kt · 22% rain
Sun
Favorable
64°/51°
wind 5 kt · 10% rain
from the mouth (a line from the flashing light at the southwest end of the Port of Bellingham North Terminal to the southernmost point of the dike surrounding the Georgia Pacific treatment pond) to the footbridge below Dupont St. in Bellingham CRC (884)
Salmon — Aug. 2-Sept. 27
Min. size 12". Daily limit 2. Night closure. Anti-snagging rule. Release all salmon other than hatchery Chinook. Open Saturdays and Sundays only. Closed Monday through Friday.
from footbridge below Dupont St. in Bellingham to stone bridge at Whatcom Falls Park. CRC (884)
All species — Aug. 1-Oct. 31
Night closure. Anti-snagging rule.
from the mouth (a line from the flashing light at the southwest end of the Port of Bellingham North Terminal to the southernmost point of the dike surrounding the Georgia Pacific treatment pond) to the footbridge below Dupont St. in Bellingham CRC (884)
▸ Trout — Sat. before Memorial Day-July 31: Statewide min. size/daily limit. Except: Cutthroat trout and wild rainbow trout: min. size 14".
▸ Other game fish — Sat. before Memorial Day-July 31: Statewide min. size/daily limit.
▸ Salmon — Aug. 2-Sept. 27: Min. size 12". Daily limit 2. Night closure. Anti-snagging rule. Release all salmon other than hatchery Chinook. Open Saturdays and Sundays only. Closed Monday through Friday.
from footbridge below Dupont St. in Bellingham to stone bridge at Whatcom Falls Park. CRC (884)
▸ All species — Aug. 1-Oct. 31: Night closure. Anti-snagging rule.
▸ Trout — Sat. before Memorial Day-Oct. 31: Statewide min. size/daily limit. Except: Cutthroat trout and wild rainbow trout: min. size 14".
▸ Other game fish — Sat. before Memorial Day-Oct. 31: Statewide min. size/daily limit.
from stone bridge at Whatcom Falls Park to Lake Whatcom CRC (884)
▸ All species: Juvenile Anglers Only (under 15 years old).
▸ Trout — 4th Sat. in Apr.-Oct. 31: No min. size. Daily limit 2.
▸ Other game fish — 4th Sat. in Apr.-Oct. 31: Statewide min. size/daily limit.
There is no tide here, so the windows are first and last light — the hour either side of sunrise and sunset, when river fish move and feed. Wind, the chance of rain during the window, and how much rain fell in the previous day separate one morning from the next; the river's flow and what the hatchery is counting apply to the whole period.
Only legal hours are considered — one hour before sunrise to one hour after sunset — so a turn in the middle of the night is left out entirely, and a window running past the boundary is trimmed to the part you may fish.
Times come from NOAA and Open-Meteo, counts from WDFW. The ranking is ours — it is a read on conditions, not a promise of fish, and it does not account for regulations. Check the rules for the section you are fishing before you go.
USGS publishes what the river is doing now, not what it will do — so flow is read as a condition on the whole period, and a heavy rain day can change it.