Grays River
including West Fork - Opens to fishing for hatchery coho beginning
September 1.
Elochoman River - Opens to fishing for fall chinook and hatchery coho
beginning September 1.
Mill, Abernathy,
Germany, and Coal creeks - Lower portions of these streams
will be closed to all fishing in September and October to protect spawning
fall chinook.
Cowlitz
River - Boat anglers from the Kelso Bridge downstream averaged
nearly a steelhead per rod. Some fall chinook and sea run cutthroats
were also caught.
Kalama River - Fall chinook are present in the lower
river although none were found in the creel sample.
North Fork Lewis River - Effort and catches were light.
Wind River - Boat anglers are catching some steelhead.
A dozen boats were counted here yesterday. Steelhead were observed rolling.
Drano Lake - Boat anglers averaged ½ steelhead
per rod when including fish released. About 70% of the fish caught were
kept. Some chinook were also found in the catch.
White Salmon River - Anglers are catching steelhead.
Some chinook were also reported caught. Around 50 water craft observed
yesterday morning.
Klickitat River - No catch observed from the few bank
anglers sampled.
Buoy 10 - Over the weekend, boat anglers at the Ports
of Chinook and Ilwaco averaged a chinook and coho per every 41.2 and
33 rods, respectively.
Daily creel sampling information for Buoy 10
Lower Columbia
below Bonneville Dam - Last week we sampled 870 salmonid anglers
(including 236 boats) with 52 adult (including one tule released) and
4 jack fall chinook, 150 steelhead, 1 coho (wild fish released), and
1 sea run cutthroat. Chinook were caught throughout the river but best
catches were by Kalama area boat anglers with an adult per every 6.5
rods. Overall, boat anglers averaged an adult chinook per every 10.4
rods while bank anglers averaged one per every 65.5 rods based on mainly
complete and incomplete trips, respectively. Several fish near 40 pounds
were sampled.
Steelhead were also caught throughout the river. Best catches were by
bank anglers just below the dam; they averaged ½ fish per rod
when including fish released. Overall, bank anglers averaged a steelhead
kept/released per every 4.3 rods while boat anglers averaged one per
every 8.2 rods. 2/3 of the steelhead caught were kept.
Nearly three hundred salmonid boats were counted during the Saturday
August 19 flight. Highest concentration of boats (67) was at the mouth
of the Cowlitz.
Bonneville Pool - No report on angling success. Effort
is slowly increasing with 10 boats observed off the White Salmon River
and 4 off Drano Lake yesterday.
Hanford Reach - Re-opened to fishing for salmon August
16. No chinook were checked. Most anglers were targeting bass, pikeminnows,
or sturgeon.
