Cowlitz River
- 14 bank anglers kept 1 steelhead while 4 bank anglers had no catch.
The adult fish ladder
and collection system at the Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery was opened and
fished for five days last week. During the past week Tacoma Power personnel
recovered 53 coho salmon adults and six winter-run steelhead.
Tacoma Power employees
released 48 coho salmon adults and four winter-run steelhead into the
upper Cowlitz River at the Lake Scanewa Day Use Site and five coho salmon
adults and two winter-run steelhead into the Tilton River at Gust Backstrom
Park in Morton.
River flows at Mayfield
Dam are approximately 6,660 cubic feet per second on Tuesday, February
17
Lower Columbia
from the I-5 Bridge downstream - 3 bank anglers and 1 boat/1 boat
angler in the Vancouver area had no catch as did 3 bank anglers in Kalama.
Wind and Klickitat
rivers and Drano Lake spring chinook 2008 actual returns and 2009 forecasts:
- Wind River
- 2008 forecast was 10,000 adults; actual return 3,200. 2009 forecast
is 6,900 adults.
- Drano Lake
- 2008 forecast was 36,800 adults; actual return 7,700. 2009 forecast
is 9,600 adults.
- Klickitat
River - 2008 forecast was 1,100 adults; actual return 1,000. 2009
forecasts is 2,000 adults.
