WDFW Sport Sampling Results:
February 20-26, 2006
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Salmon/Steelhead -
Cowlitz River - No report on angling success is currently available. The ladder at the Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery separator was re-opened on Friday, February 17. During the past week, Tacoma Power employees recovered 55 winter-run steelhead and one spring chinook salmon in three days of separator operations. Tacoma Power employees released 43 winter-run steelhead and one spring chinook salmon adult into the upper Cowlitz River system at Lake Scanewa Day Use Park during the week. During the week Tacoma Power employees recycled three winter-run steelhead downstream to the Olequa boat launch.During the week a total of eight winter-run steelhead were released into the Tilton River at Gust Backstrom Park in Morton, Washington. River flows at Mayfield Dam are approximately 6,100 cubic feet per second on Monday, February 27. Water visibility is over six feet.
Mainstem lower Columbia from Longview downstream - We sampled 13 bank and 12 boat anglers (7 boats) with no catch.
Bonneville Pool - Boat anglers are catching some steelheed.
The Dalles Pool - Boat anglers averaged nearly 1.4 steelhead kept/released per rod. Ratio was split evenly between wild and hatchery fish.
John Day Pool - Bank anglers are catching some steelhead.
Sturgeon -
Lower Columbia from Bonneville Dam downstream - We sampled 4 bank and 11 boat anglers (5 boats) with no catch.
Bonneville Pool - Boat anglers are catching some legals. Slow for legal sized fish from the bank.
The Dalles and John Day pools - Slow for legal sized fish.
Walleye and Bass -
Bonneville Pool - Including fish released, boat anglers averaged 2 walleye per rod. No effort was observed for bass.
The Dalles Pool - Boat anglers averaged nearly a walleye per rod. No effort was observed for bass.
John Day Pool - Boat anglers averaged a walleye per every 4 rods when including fish released. No effort was observed for bass.
Trout -
Klineline Pond - 24 bank anglers kept 29 catchable and 1 brood stock rainbow plus released 3 catchable size fish. Planted with 1,000 rainbows weighing over one-half pound each on Feb. 21. A lot less cormorants so the fish seem to have moved out farther into the pond. Best fishing is still in the swimming area with anglers using bait.
Smelt -
Mainstem Columbia - No commercial landings reported last week.
Cowlitz River - No report currently available.
FYI - Greg Bargmann, WDFW forage fish biologist, reports that British Columbia fish managers plan to cancel the eulachon fishery in the Frasier River. The Frasier run is several months later than the run in the Columbia and the British Columbia staff use our monitoring results as an indicator of the likely run strength into the Frasier.
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