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WDFW Sport Sampling Results for November 25-December 1, 2002
Sport Sampling Summaries - PDF Format

Salmon/Steelhead

• Cowlitz River - At Lake Scanewa yesterday, 33 boat anglers sampled kept 26 adult coho and 8 jack coho plus released 5 adult coho and 2 jack coho. 4 bank anglers kept 2 adult coho.
• Flows below Mayfield Dam are 2,950 cfs this morning. The long term median flow for this date is 8,540 cfs.
• Lewis River - No report on angling success. North Fork flows below Merwin Dam were 2,750; the long term median flow is 7,700 cfs. On the East Fork Lewis, today's flow was 102 cfs; the long term average median flow is 1,150 cfs.
• Bonneville Pool - The few boat anglers sampled did very well on coho and hatchery steelhead.
• Ringold - Steelhead fishing remained about the same as the past several weeks. Bank anglers kept 1 steelhead per every 5.6 rods last week. Boat anglers averaged a steelhead kept for every 2.25 rods. The actual checks were 28 bank anglers with 5 hatchery steelhead kept and 1 wild fish released. 18 boat anglers kept 8 hatchery steelhead and released 1 wild fish.

Sturgeon

• Lower Columbia below Bonneville Dam - No report on angling success.
• Bonneville Pool - The few boat anglers sampled did well on legal-sized fish last week.
  

Walleye, Bass and other warmwater fish

• No Report
  

Trout

• No Report