Cowlitz River
- Still some coho being caught around the mouth of the Toutle.
Last week Tacoma
Power recovered 983 coho salmon adults, 343 coho jacks, 689 fall chinook
adults, 72 jacks, 31 summer-run steelhead, four spring chinook adults,
two jacks and 11 cutthroat trout at the Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery separator
during five days of operations.
Tacoma Power employees
released 374 coho adults, 143 coho jacks and three spring chinook adults
into Lake Scanewa at the Day Use Site and 80 fall chinook adults, 61
jacks, 33 coho adults and two jacks into Mayfield Lake at the Ike Kinswa
State Park boat launch during the week. A total of 230 coho adults and
95 coho jacks were released into the upper Cowlitz River at the Skate
Creek Bridge site in Packwood, Washington.
River flows at Mayfield
Dam are approximately at 3,620 cubic feet per second on Monday, October
1. Water visibility is over 14 feet.
Lewis River -
Anglers are catching some coho around the salmon hatchery.
Drano Lake -
No report on angling success. Scheduled to be closed to all fishing
6 pm Tuesdays to 6 pm Wednesdays during tribal fisheries in October.
Klickitat River
- Bank anglers are catching some adult and jack fall chinook.
Yakima River
- Effort picked up this past week. WDFW staff interviewed 118 anglers
(22% of the effort). An estimated 39 adults and 36 jacks were harvested.
Anglers are catching a high percentage of jacks. As of Sept 30, 49 adults
and 51 jacks have been harvested. Anglers averaged 18.5 hours per fish
caught.
Lower Columbia
below Bonneville - A scattering of fall chinook and coho were caught
from Woodland upstream.
Bonneville Pool
- Boat anglers were doing well for adult and jack fall chinook and
some coho and steelhead. Mouth of the Klickitat was very good for chinook.
Bonneville Pool has been very low.
Hanford Reach
- This week was a surprise with 265 adult chinook and 97 jacks caught
compared to 204 adult and 21 jacks in 2006. Anglers averaged 1 fish
for every 2 rods, or 1 fish for every 13.4 pole hours. Cooler weather
and stable water flows may have contributed to the higher catch rates.
On Saturday there was a Derby for the family of Jeff Johansson which
increased the amount of fishing guides to the area and in turn contributed
to the higher catch rate. Fish condition has been great with the cooler
water temps in the low 60's.
