Cowlitz River
- No report on angling success is currently available.
Last week Tacoma
Power recovered 24 spring chinook adults, 16 jacks, 33 mini-jacks and
33 summer-run steelhead at the Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery separator during
five days of operations. Tacoma Power employees released five spring
chinook salmon and 11 jacks into the upper Cowlitz River at the Lake
Scanewa Day Use Site during the week. Four radio-tagged adult spring
chinook adults were released into the Cispus River, and two radio-tagged
spring chinook adults were released into the upper Cowlitz River at
the Skate Bridge site in Packwood. Tacoma Power employees released 26
spring chinook mini-jacks into Riffe Lake.
River flows at
Mayfield Dam are approximately 3,510 cubic feet per second on Monday,
June 25. On Wednesday, flows will be increased for a 12-hour period.
Water visibility is nine feet.
Lower Columbia
below Bonneville Dam - Last week we sampled 1,074 salmonid anglers
(including 125 boats) with 72 adult and 6 jack summer chinook and 71
steelhead. Boat and bank anglers averaged an adult chinook per every
13.8 and 15.3 rods based on mainly complete and incomplete trips, respectively.
Best adult chinook catches were from the bank at Kalama, Vancouver,
and just below Bonneville Dam and by boat anglers in the gorge. Best
steelhead catches were from Longview downstream.
The adult chinook
sampled were evenly split between adipose clipped and unmarked fish.
61 (86%) of the 71 steelhead caught were kept.
A total of 338
salmonid boats and 280 WA and 166 OR bank anglers were counted during
the Saturday June 23 flight. Heaviest boat effort (79) was in the gorge
while 94 bank anglers were counted in the Longview area.
From June 16-24,
an estimated 1,350 adult summer chinook have been kept from 14,000 angler
trips. The season total is projected to be 2,100 fish from 22,400 angler
trips by the end of June. The 2007 Upper Columbia Summer Chinook Allocation
is 1,650 fish for the sport fishery below Priest Rapdis Dam.
Bonneville and
The Dalles pools - Bank anglers are catching some summer chinook.
Catch is evenly split between marked and unmarked fish.
John Day Pool
- Light effort and no catch observed. This is the last week of sampling
in this pool.
Below Wauna
power lines - At the Knappton/Deep River ramps boat anglers averaged
slightly better than a legal kept per every 3 rods based on mainly complete
trips. Bank anglers between Fort Columbia and Knappton kept a legal
per every 11.5 rods based on mainly incomplete trips. No report is currently
available for the ports of Chinook and Ilwaco.
During the Saturday
June 23 flight, 559 sturgeon private and 20 charter boats were counted.
In addition 65 bank anglers were counted from Fort Columbia to Knappton.
Above Wauna
power lines - Boat anglers in the Longview area are catching some
legals. Except for the gorge, effort was generally light. 55 boats were
counted from Corbett to Marker #85 during the Saturday June 23 flight.
Bonneville Pool
- Both bank and boat anglers are catching some legals.
Bonneville Pool
- Both bank and boat anglers are catching some bass. No walleye
anglers were found in the sample.
The Dalles Pool
- Boat anglers are catching some walleye. No bass anglers were sampled.
John Day Pool
- Boat anglers are catching some walleye and bass. Bank anglers
are catching some bass.
Lower Columbia
below Bonneville Dam - Boat anglers in the gorge averaged nearly
4 shad kept/released per rod while bank anglers just below Bonneville
Dam averaged 2.4 fish per rod based on mainly complete and incomplete
trips, respectively. Effort and catch was light downstream from the
gorge.
The Dalles Pool
-7 boat anglers released 10 shad.
John Day Pool
- 22 bank anglers kept 16 and released 104 shad. 37 boat anglers
kept 31 and released 40 shad.
