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WDFW Sport Sampling Results for November 4-10, 2002
Sport Sampling Summaries - PDF Format

Salmon/Steelhead

• Grays River - From the Hwy. 4 Bridge downstream, opens to fishing for hatchery steelhead beginning November 15. The mainstem Grays upstream from the Hwy. 4 Bridge and the West Fork will open to fishing for hatchery steelhead in mid December.
  
• Cowlitz River - On the Cowlitz River below the barrier dam, some hatchery coho continue to be caught though a lot of dark fish are being released. At Lake Scanewa (Cowlitz Falls Reservoir), boat anglers averaged a coho per every 2.5 rods while the few bank anglers sampled had even better success.
  
• During the past week Tacoma Power's Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery separator recovered 5,107 coho salmon, 1,061 coho jacks, 220 fall chinook salmon, four fall chinook jacks, 44 summer-run steelhead, three winter-run steelhead and 22 cutthroat trout during seven days of separator operations.
  
• Tacoma Power employees released 3,787 coho adults, 806 coho jacks, 185 fall chinook adults and two fall chinook jacks, into the upper Cowlitz River at the Day Use Park on Lake Scanewa during the week.
  
• Tacoma Power employees also released a total of 267 adult coho salmon, 53 coho jacks and two chinook adults at the Skate Creek Bridge site on the upper Cowlitz River in Packwood , Washington during the week.
  
• In addition, Tacoma Power employees released 841 coho salmon, 195 coho jacks, 18 fall chinook adults, five cutthroat trout and one winter-run steelhead into the Tilton River arm of Mayfield Lake at the Ike Kinswa State Park boat ramp.
  
• A total of 69 summer-run steelhead, two winter-run steelhead, one chum salmon adult and 15 cutthroat trout were recycled downstream to the Barrier Dam boat launch during the week.
  
• River flows at Mayfield Dam are approximately 2,960 cubic feet per second on Tuesday, November 12.
• Kalama and Lewis rivers - Producing some hatchery coho.
• Klickitat River - Boat anglers on the lower river did very well on coho last week, averaging better than a fish per rod. In the mainstem Columbia at the mouth of the Klickitat, boat anglers averaged about 2/3 coho per rod.
• Lower Columbia below Bonneville Dam - Effort and catches are generally low.
• Ringold - Including steelhead released, anglers averaged one fish for every two rods last week. Some fall chinook continue to be taken. An estimated 7,300 adult fall chinook were harvested in the Hanford Reach sport fishery in 2002. It was the largest single season catch of adult fall chinook for the upper Columbia since records were kept beginning in 1968.
  

Sturgeon

• Lower Columbia below Bonneville Dam - Catch and keep fishing begins November 23.
• Bonneville Pool - Anglers are catching some legals in this fishery which is currently open to catch and keep. Through Oct. 31, an estimated 1,334 of the 1,520 sturgeon guideline (88%) had been taken.
  

Walleye, Bass and other warmwater fish

• No Report
  

Trout

• No Report