Pikeminnow Registration vs Catchzone

The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife in partnership with the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission is excited to announce a new Northern Pikeminnow Sport-Reward Fishery application for your mobile device - the Pikeminnow Registration application! The Pikeminnow Registration application offers anglers an easy way to enroll in the Northern Pikeminnow Sport-Reward Fishery Program from the comfort of your own phone! You can help save salmon and get paid to do it by going fishing! The Northern Pikeminnow Sport-Reward Fishery Program, funded by the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), administered by the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, and implemented by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is in effect annually on the Columbia and Snake rivers from approximately May through September. Over the past ten years (2016-2025), the top 20 anglers caught an average of 3,541 fish per angler and earned average annual reward payments of $32,589 each for the 5-6 month season. The highest paid angler in 2025 caught 15,715 fish and earned $$159,310 while the all-time record harvest is 16,150 fish from the 2024 season, worth $164,260! Results indicate that the Pikeminnow Program has been successful with over 5.9 million predatory Northern Pikeminnow removed by anglers spending more than 1 million days of effort participating in the Northern Pikeminnow Sport-Reward Fishery. Estimates indicate that predation on juvenile salmonids has been reduced by up to 40% from pre-program levels. Anglers will need to install the application, and then register with the application using a WA.gov account. Users without a WA.gov account may acquire one following prompts within the application.

Catch Zone is your very own fishing guide in the palm of your hand. It has mapping features for you to scroll and look at water body’s, you can then tap on the water body and see which fish is in season and out of season for that river, lake, stream, or pond. As well as the regulations for the individual fish in that waterbody. It has a search feature from the map screen for you to look up any regulated waterbody. Your catch code will populate and you can see all the information on the water body you want to fish or are currently fishing. Catch Zone comes complete with an auto locating feature that will tell you your catch code for any waterbody in Washington or Oregon. Track your personal best with our catch tags that save to your personal profile. We have a large social feed for you to share your greatest catch and stories with the world. At the bottom of every fish screen, we have made it easy to access emergency regulations with a clickable link. Subscriptions are required for complete functionality of our app. We offer two subscriptions a monthly subscription or a yearly subscription. Both of our subscriptions give full access to our app. We have added a new weather page to our app! On the weather page you will find your local forecast, a seven day forecast, as well as Tides, River levels, stocking reports , dam counts, ocean conditions, and moon phases. Our tide feature is great it auto locates your closest station and then you can also select different locations near you or even search for any station you want to know about. We have added tips and info for every waterbody on our app. These tips and info will tell you what fish are in that waterbody, the best time to fish for them, and in some cases tell you how to set up your rod, and tell you what works best . This feature is very helpful for a new angler . It tells you where bank access is as well as where boat access is. Tons of our users have been using this feature to explore new areas! We have implemented a new offline mode on our app!!! You can open the app when you don’t have service and when you go to the map screen you can still search any waterbody and get the info you need with no service! Catch Zone is a subscription based app which means a subscription is required for access to the app and its functionality. We offer two subscriptions currently: Our yearly subscription costs 69.99 which will be billed after your 7 day free trial. Our monthly subscription costs is 9.99 which will be billed monthly after your free trial ends. Please see our End user license agreement https://app.termly.io/document/eula/cd33fe37-763d-4d8e-92b1-f2599c27511a