Washington Fishing Tournaments

Host pages give 5 Washington dates ahead, 4 on fresh water and 1 on salt, along with 15 published results; each lake, river or bay with its own contest page links from the lists below.

Every date on this calendar was read from the organizer that printed it, among them Northwest Bass, the Washington State Pond Jumperz Bass Club, Kayak Fishing Northwest, the Washington State Bass Federation, Puget Sound Anglers chapters and the Brewster, Edmonds and Resurrection derbies, each linked in its row.

A contest field fishes under the same WDFW pamphlet as anyone else on that water: statewide freshwater rules on lakes and rivers, the marine area rules on salt water, and any Special Rules for the named water.

On the Columbia and other shared waters the pamphlet reads: "Where the river coincides with the boundary between Washington and Oregon, the license of either state is valid. Anglers must comply with the laws of the state in which they are fishing. An angler licensed only in Oregon may not fish on the Washington shore or in Washington sloughs or tributaries, except camas slough, where the license of either state is valid from a floating device. An angler fishing the Columbia River is restricted to one daily limit even if licensed by both states. Salmon and steelhead anglers may not possess in the field, fish mutilated so that size, species or fin clip cannot be determined, until the angler has reached their automobile or principle means of land transportation and has completed their daily angling. Anglers may fish with either a saltwater, freshwater, or combination license in the waters of the Columbia River between a line from rocky point, on the Washington shore, to tongue point, on the Oregon shore, and the buoy 10 line described below. For sturgeon rules in the Columbia River tributaries, see rules for adjoining mainstem waters."