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WDFW Sport Sampling Results for October 28-November 3, 2002
Sport Sampling Summaries - PDF Format

Salmon/Steelhead

• Cowlitz River (including Lake Scanewa) - At Lake Scanewa, anglers averaged nearly a coho per rod last week. No report on angling success on the lower river.
• Through October 30, a total of 26,093 adult and 5,012 jack hatchery coho had returned to the Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery. This year's jack coho total to date is greater than the season total for all of 2001. Nearly 24,000 of the hatchery adult coho have been released into the upper Cowlitz watershed so far this year.
• At the Cowlitz Trout Hatchery, nearly 7,000 adult sea-run cutthroat had returned through October 30.
• Kalama and Lewis rivers - Producing some hatchery coho and hatchery steelhead for bank anglers.
• Lower Columbia below Bonneville Dam - Effort and catches continue to wane.
• Bonneville Pool - Boat anglers are catching good numbers of coho, mostly at the mouth of the Klickitat River.
• Ringold - Chinook and hatchery steelhead are being caught in good numbers.

Sturgeon

• Lower Columbia below Bonneville - Effort continues to remain light during the current catch and release fishery.
• Bonneville Pool - Boat anglers are catching some legals. No legals were found from bank anglers sampled last week.
  

Walleye, Bass and other warmwater fish

• No Report
  

Trout

• No Report