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WDFW Sport Sampling Results for August 12-18, 2002

Salmon/Steelhead

• Kalama River: .06 steelheed/angler
• Cowlitz River: .49 steelhead/rod, jack salmon released
• N.F.Lewis River: .06 steelhead/rod
• Drano Lake: 1.2 steelhead /rod.
• White Salmon River: .14chinook/rod,1.1steelhead/rod.
• Klickitat River: No data
• Bonneville Pool: 3 boat anglers, no catch.
• Hanford Reach: 5 bank anglers, 1 Sthd released (Closed for Steelhead). 13 boat anglers, 1 chinook.
• Columbia River:
  
  • Bonneville to Vancouver: .02 chinook/angler, .02 steelhead/angler
    
  • Vancouver to Longview: .007 chinook/ angler, .11steelhead/angler
    
  • Longview to Elochoman: .02 chinook/angler, .09 steelhead/ angler.
    
  • Buoy 10 : .34chinook/rod
    
  • (Area):
    
  • Bonneville Dam:26 bank anglers, 1 chinook. 7 boat anglers, 2 STHD kept, none released.
    
  • Camas/Washougal: 1 bank angler, no catch 21 boat anglers, no catch.
    
  • Vancouver: 38 bank anglers, no catch 14 boat anglers, 1 chinook.
    
  • Woodland: 71 bank anglers, 1 chinook, 2 STHD kept, none released. 16 boat anglers, no catch.
    
  • Kalama: 172 bank anglers, 11 STHD kept, 8 released. 46 boat anglers, 1 chinook. 5 STHD kept, 1 released.
    
  • Cowlitz: No bank anglers, 135 boat anglers, 6 chinook. 12 STHD kept, 1 released.
    
  • Longview: 113 bank anglers, 2 chinook jacks. 9 STHD kept, 3 released. 12 boat anglers, 3 STHD kept, none released.
    
  • Cathlamet: 55 bank anglers, 2 chinook, 5 STHD kept, 2 released. 25 boat anglers, 1 STHD kept, none released
  • Elochoman: 33 bank anglers, 1 chinook, 1 STHD kept. 5 boat anglers, no catch
  • Buoy 10 6200 chinook, .34 chinook/angler (combined CPUE for the week)
• John Day Pool: 22 anglers kept 2 steelhead, none released
  
• RiffeLake: 31 anglers caught 11 coho and 2 steelhead.
  

Sturgeon

• Below Bonneville Dam: Catch/release only
  
• Bonneville Pool: Closed to Sturgeon retention, no creel survey
  
• Dalles Pool: Closed to Sturgeon retention, no creel survey.
  
• John Day Pool: 70 anglers released 54 sub-legals and 1 oversized. No legals kept.
  

Walleye, Bass and other warmwater fish

• Below Bonneville Dam: No report
  
• Bonneville Pool: No report
  
• Dalles Pool: No report.
  
• John Day Pool: Walleye- 1.6 walleye/ angler (36 anglers kept 30 and released 18). Bass- 8.6 bass/ angler (6 anglers kept 14 and released 38).
  

Trout

• Mayfield Lake: .5 rainbow/ angler (6 anglers caught 3 rainbows).