September 3, 2025

As we are building up to the peak of the salmon season, many of our guests are reaching out to us to inquire into how they may obtain Daily Access Fishing passes. I should mention that our passes are placed online during early to mid-January of each year, for the forthcoming season later in the Fall; please mark your calendar so that you increase your opportunities to obtain passes for the desired dates of your trip. If, however, you are unable to obtain any, or all desired, daily access fishing passes for your trip by simply buying them online at this time, there are a few options which may assist you in obtaining passes for your trip: • consider alternate date(s). If your schedule is relatively flexible, consider either earlier or later date(s), as the last week of September and the first week of October are the highest demand weeks and typically sell-out rapidly. Salmon, Steelhead, and Brown Trout are plentiful in our river system from mid-September through mid-November, to a lesser degree on both sides of this period; • monitor the website. At this time passes may not be available online, but commonly we will have outright cancellations, or changes in dates and desired quantities, for various reasons. Cancellations are automatically placed back into our inventory on our website. We encourage guests seeking passes, for currently sold-out dates, to monitor the pass availability as much as possible. DSR does not maintain any waiting lists for daily passes; • hire a DSR approved guide. DSR approved guides are guaranteed access for their clients, only for the day(s) they are actively guiding the clients. DSR’s guides are independent contractors and require guests to initiate inquiries about their services and availability on their own. A list of approved DSR Guides may be found by searching our website under "Fishing"; • consider renting a lodge. If available, our rates are very competitive with those in the local area. As lodge guests you are guaranteed to be able to purchase daily access fishing passes, from your date of check-in through your date of check-out, up to the total number of guests in the lodge. You may also access the water earlier than most other categories of fishing access passes and the general public; • purchase a walk-up pass. DSR has collected data over the years past, which allows us to calculate averages and estimate guest attendance on any day. Should those estimates be off, and space is available, DSR will release remaining passes for sale via the procedures published at www.douglastonsalmonrun.com/walkup beginning at 7:00 AM. You may also directly solicit the lineup of daily access pass holders, prior to their beginning the check-in process, for any available passes due to no-shows within their party; any financial transactions conducted are strictly between the two parties and are usually cash only. Please note that pass availability varies for any given day and is not guaranteed. • purchase an afternoon pass. As anglers come off the water for the day, we check-out each angler. This in turn creates openings for additional guests to get on the water. At 12:45 AM each day, available Afternoon Passes will be published for sale. Guests who have purchased afternoon passes may redeem them at our Welcome Center, beginning at 1:00 PM. I hope the information above assists you. It’s certainly difficult to defer guests to these alternative methods of obtaining access, but DSR must stay true to its angler limit promise. We appreciate your understanding and look forward to you joining us on the water soon.

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