WDFW Sport Sampling Results:
November 14, 2005

  Salmon/Steelhead -

Lake Scanewa - Wednesday 11/9/05: 42 boat anglers kept 48 adults, 10 jacks and released 13 adults, 2 jacks. 10 shore anglers kept 2 adults, 1 jack and released 0 adults, 0 jack.

Sunday 11/13/05: 41 boat anglers kept 24 adults, 4 jack and released 3 adults and 1 jacks. 5 shore anglers kept 0 adults, 0 jack and released 0 adults, 0 jack.

Cowlitz River - No report on angling success. During the past week, Tacoma Power and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife employees recovered 2,665 coho salmon adults, 365 coho jacks, 121 fall chinook adults, two jacks, 199 summer-run steelhead, 11 winter-run steelhead and 64 cutthroat trout during seven days of separator operations at Tacoma Power's Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery.

Tacoma Power employees released 1,410 coho salmon adults and 181 jacks into the upper Cowlitz River at the Lake Scanewa Day Use site above Cowlitz Falls Dam during the week. They also released 260 coho adults and 43 jacks at the Franklin Bridge in Packwood, and they released 127 coho adults and 29 jacks into the Cispus River above the mouth of Yellowjacket Creek.

During the week Tacoma Power employees recycled 81 steelhead adults and ten cutthroat trout downstream to the Interstate-5 boat launch, and they recycled 407 summer steelhead adults and 58 cutthroat trout downstream to the Olequa boat launch.

Also during the week a total of 612 coho adults, 79 jacks and six cutthroat trout were released into the Tilton River at Gust Backstrom Park in Morton, Washington.

River flows at Mayfield Dam are 7,590 cubic feet per second (cfs) on Monday, November 14. Water visibility at Mayfield Dam is over four feet.

Elochoman River mouth to West Fork - Re-opened to fishing for hatchery coho through the end of the year. No report on angling success.

Ringold - We interviewed 133 anglers and sampled 32 steelhead this week at Ringold. Anglers averaged 13 pole hours per steelhead. The boat anglers have been doing much better than the shore anglers in recent weeks.

Effort and Sampling
	Anglers	Hours	Steelhead	Hrs/Fish
Weekday Bank	46	119.3	7	17
Weekday Boat	19	95.2	15	6
Weekend Bank	48	137.3	4	34
Weekend Boat	20	79.3	6	13
Total	133	431.1	32	13

Sturgeon -

Lower Columbia below Bonneville Dam - Just below Bonneville Dam, 59 bank anglers kept 11 legals and released 14 sublegals.

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