WDFW Sport Sampling Results:
February 13-19, 2006
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Salmon/Steelhead -
Lower Columbia from Kalama to Vancouver - We sampled 11 bank and 7 boat anglers with no catch. Eleven chinook were reported caught in the commercial sturgeon fishery last week (bringing a price of $6.50-$7.50/lb to the fisher) for a total of 21 so far this season.
Bonneville Pool - The few boat anglers sampled averaged a steelhead kept/released per rod.
The Dalles Pool - The few anglers sampled had no steelhead.
John Day Pool - Bank anglers are catching some steelhead.
Kalama River - Cold water temps and time of year have slowed fish returns through Kalama Falls Hatchery (KFH).
No fish were handled on Friday (2/17) and on Tuesday (2/21) only 3 wild winter steelhead were passed upstream of KFH and 5 steelhead were planted into Kress Lake.
However, fishing has been good through out the river, mostly wild winters with an occasional hatchery fish being caught.
Sturgeon -
Bonneville, The Dalles, and John Day pools - Slow for legal size fish.
Walleye and Bass -
Bonneville Pool - No effort observed for either specie.
The Dalles Pool - The few walleye anglers sampled had no catch. No effort observed for bass.
John Day Pool - Boat anglers are catching some walleye. No effort observed for bass.
Trout -
Klineline Pond - 27 bank anglers kept 9 rainbows and released 5. Fishing is best in the shallow waters of the swimming area by anglers using bait. Cormorants have left the area.
Northwestern Lake on the White Salmon River - Planted with 5,200 catchable size rainbows on Feb. 10. Remains open to fishing through February.
Smelt -
Lower Columbia mainstem - A total of 13,182 lbs. of smelt have been landed through Thursday February 16. Landings dropped off sharply last week with only 15 pounds reported landed. Average price per pound paid to the fishers for smelt so far this season (Oregon only) has been about $2.00/lb (with highs being $4.00 & $5.00/lb and a low of $1.00/lb).
At Cathlamet, the river temp had cooled to 40 degrees as of today.
Cowlitz River - No smelt reported last Saturday (Feb. 18). Water temperature has cooled to 37 degrees. Smelt prefer 42 degrees and above.
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