Cowlitz River
- Bank anglers are catching coho around the mouth of the Toutle
while fall chinook are being caught at the barrier dam.
Last week, Tacoma
Power recovered 249 fall chinook adults, 23 jacks, 39 summer-run steelhead,
54 coho salmon adults, eleven coho jacks, 30 spring chinook adults,
seven jacks, 13 mini-jacks, and eleven cutthroat trout at the Cowlitz
Salmon Hatchery separator during five days of operations.
Tacoma Power employees
released nine adult coho and one jack, 37 fall chinook adults and 18
jacks into Mayfield Lake and 22 spring chinook adults, three jacks,
42 coho adults and ten jacks into Lake Scanewa, and five cutthroat trout
into the Tilton River.
River flows at Mayfield
Dam are approximately at 2,580 cubic feet per second on Monday, September
17. Water visibility is 16 feet.
Kalama River
- Anglers are catching some coho and steelhead. Fall chinook returns
tapered off the past week.
Lewis River -
Anglers are catching a mixture of fall chinook, coho, and some steelhead.
Coho catches have dropped while fall chinook catches have increased
especially for boat anglers.
Washougal River
- Some fall chinook are being caught. Lacamas Creek (Clark County)
is now closed to all fishing.
Wind River and
Drano Lake - Boat anglers are catching some coho. Steelhead catches
decreased rapidly as the fish moved out of Bonneville Pool. Almost 8,000
steelhead were counted at The Dalles Dam yesterday.
Klickitat River
- Anglers are catching some fall chinook.
Yakima River
- From Paul Hoffarth, WDFW Biologist in Yakima - Starting to see
a few anglers on the Yakima River fishing for salmon. Staff interviewed
over 20 salmon anglers each day over the weekend and a total of 58 anglers
for the week. An estimated 2 adult salmon and 9 jacks were caught this
past week.
Lower Columbia
below Bonneville Dam - Fall chinook catches have declined with an
adult kept per every 10 boat anglers and one per every 20 bank anglers
based on mainly completed and incomplete trips, respectively. Just over
half the coho caught were kept. A few large summer run steelhead are
also being caught.
An estimated 4,000
fall chinook have been caught at Buoy 10 and another 7,950 fish from
the Rocky Point/Tongue Point line upstream to Bonneville Dam. On Monday
September 17 the Technical Advisory Committee downgraded the Upriver
Bright run to 105,000 adults at the river mouth. This is a reduction
from the previous inseason estimate of 121,000 on September 13 and 57%
of the preseason forecast (185,200 fish).
All chinook must
be released in Columbia River recreational fisheries from Buoy 10 upstream
to Bonneville Dam effective 12:01 AM Wednesday September 19, 2007 through
December 31, 2007. The area below the Lewis River is currently closed
for Chinook retention through September 30. Current information indicates
the fishery cannot re-open as scheduled for Chinook retention, and the
Joint Staff recommended the area below Bonneville Dam remained closed
for Chinook retention until further notice.
Above Bonneville
Dam - The few boat anglers sampled off the Klickitat had caught
some coho.
All chinook must
be released in Columbia River recreational fisheries from Bonneville
Dam upstream to the Highway 395 Bridge in Pasco, Washington effective
12:01 AM Thursday September 20, 2007 through December 31, 2007. A little
over a hundred adult fall chinook had been caught to date.
Hanford Reach
- Effort and catches are increasing. Boat anglers averaged an adult
chinook per every 6 rods.
Some steelhead
are being caught and released by bank anglers at Ringold. In October,
hatchery steelhead with both adipose fin and ventral fin clips may be
kept from the Hwy. 395 Bridge at Pasco to the Old Hanford townsite wooden
powerline towers.
