Thomas Ogren stood on the dock at The Dalles Marina boat launch Monday, casting for Northern pikeminnow in the hopes of hooking a piece of the roughly $1.7 million anglers are paid each year for ...

The state pays anglers $6 for each of the first 25 fish, $8 each for the next 175 fish and $10 each after that. Some tagged fish can be worth $500. That money comes from the Bonneville Power ...