Fishing Reports, Plants & Counts

Final Count July 21: 33,629

Fishery ends after 7,000 hatchery Chinook are harvested or August 15th, whichever comes first, except that Area 9 may close earlier if 4,000 hatchery Chinook are harvested there. Both areas are CLOSED for Chinook retention. Regulations vary for inner Elliott Bay, Sinclair Inlet and public fishing piers. See the Sportfishing Rules pamphlet for those regulations.

Fishing Reports

• Coastal Fishing Reports
• Cowlitz/Columbia River Smelt
• Fall-Winter Hanford Reach / Yakima River Salmon and Ringold Steelhead
• Ocean Sport Salmon
• Puget Sound Fishing Reports
• Recreational Halibut
• Snake River Steelhead
• Southwest Washington - Buoy 10
• Southwest Washington
• Winter Steelhead - Quillayute System and Hoh River

Harvest Reports

• Steelhead Harvest Reports
• Sport Catch Reports

Fish Plants & Stocking Reports

• 2008 Statewide Hatchery Trout Stocking Plan for Washington Lakes and Streams
• Catchable Trout Plant Weekly Reports
• 2008 Washington Triploid Trout Stocking Schedule
• Regional Trout Stocking Schedules
  • Region 1 - Eastern
  • Region 2 - North Central
  • Region 3 - South Central
  • Region 4 - North Puget Sound
  • Region 5 - Southwestern
  • Region 6 - South Puget/Coastal
• Steelhead Smolt Plant Reports
• South Central Washington High Lakes Trout Fry Stocking List, 2007
• South Central Washington Lowland Lakes Trout Fry Stocking List, 2002—2004
• Private Fish Stocking/Transport Permit Information

Forecasts

• 2007 Coho Abundance and 2008 Forecast
• 2008 Columbia River Smelt Expectation, 2007 Catches, and Petition to list under ESA
• 2008 Forecasts For Columbia River Spring Chinook, Summer Chinook and Sockeye
• Columbia River Fall Chinook 2007 Preliminary Returns and Outlook for 2008
• Lower Columbia Recreational Sturgeon Fishery - 2007 Recap and 2008 Outlook and Sea Lion Impacts
  

Fish Counts

• Lake Washington Sockeye Counts
• Adult Fish Counts (USACE)

Other Information

• WDFW Publication Archive