Monday, Oct 22 is the last day of the Yakima River sport salmon fishery. For the week of Oct 15-21, WDFW staff interviewed 91 anglers (16% of the effort). An estimated 30 adults chinook and 4 jacks were harvested this past week. As of Oct 21, 216 adult chinook, 165 jacks, and 8 coho have been harvested. A final report will be completed and sent out as soon as the scale/CWT data has been processed.

2007 Yakima FALL Sport Salmonid Creel Summary
October 15-21
Season
Week
Harvest
Catch &
Released
Sampled
Total
Effort
(pole hrs)
Sampled
%
Chinook
Coho
Adult
Jacks
Adult
Jacks
Steelhead
Anglers
Hours
Sept 1-2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Sept 3-9
0
0
0
0
0
12
23.1
103.6
22.3%
Sept 10-16
2
9
0
0
0
58
113.0
689.9
16.4%
Sept 17-23
8
6
0
0
0
65
124.7
952.0
13.1%
Sept 24- 30
39
36
0
0
0
118
316.1
1,442.7
21.9%
Oct 1 - 7
55
23
0
0
0
119
297.0
1,255.8
23.7%
Oct 8 - 14
82
87
8
0
4
218
437.1
1,985.0
22.0%
Oct 15 - 21
30
4
0
0
0
91
174.8
1,106.9
15.8%
Season
216
165
8
0
4
681
1,485.8
7,535.9
19.7%
Creel Weekday Sampled Weekend Sampled
Section
Anglers
Hours
Chinook
Jacks
Coho
Jacks
Steelhead
Effort
Anglers
Hours
Chinook
Jacks
Coho
Jacks
Steelhead
Effort
Lower (Mouth to Horn Rapids)
23
33.3
1
0
0
0
0
383.9
18
35.0
2
0
0
0
0
114.3
Middle (Benton City to Prosser)
18
55.5
0
0
0
0
0
277.7
26
50.4
2
1
0
0
0
171.0
Upper (Granger to Parker)
0
0.0
0
0
0
0
0
0.0
6
0.6
0
0
0
0
0
160.1
Total
41
88.8
1
0
0
0
0
662
50
86.0
4
1
0
0
0
445
Harvest
Chinook
Jacks
Coho
Jacks
Steelhead
Chinook
Jacks
Coho
Jacks
Steelhead
Lower (Mouth to Horn Rapids)  
7
0
0
0
0
      
7
0
0
0
0
  
Middle (Benton City to Prosser)
8
0
0
0
0
7
4
0
0
0
Upper (Granger to Parker)
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Total (Weekly)
16
0
0
0
0
14
4
0
0
0
Total (Season)
124
65
0
0
4
92
101
8
0
0