Grays River -
From mouth to Hwy. 4 Bridge opens to fishing for hatchery steelhead
beginning November 15. The mainstem from the Hwy. 4 Bridge to the South
Fork and the West Fork from the mouth to the hatchery intake/footbridge
will open to fishing for hatchery steelhead beginning December 15.
Cowlitz River
- Bank anglers at the barrier dam are catching some coho.
Coweeman River
- From mouth to Mulholland Creek opened to fishing for hatchery
steelhead November 1. Salmon fishing remains closed year round.
Kalama River
- Light effort and no catch observed.
Lewis River -
Including fish released, boat anglers averaged over a salmon per rod.
About half the catch are fall chinook which have to be released. Bank
anglers near the salmon hatchery are averaging a coho per every 3 rods
when including fish released.
Weekly spawning
ground surveys continue to show low numbers of fall chinook. The peak
count should be approaching.
Lower Columbia
below Bonneville Dam - Boat anglers in the Camas/Washougal area
are catching some coho although overall effort is light.
Bonneville Pool
- Boat anglers averaged about 2/3 coho per rod.
Winter run steelhead
are beginning to appear at lower Columbia River traps. Through Nov.
7, a total of 5 hatchery fish had returned to the Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery,
4 wild and 1 hatchery fish to Kalama Falls Hatchery, and 2 hatchery
fish to the Merwin Trap on the Lewis. Weekly hatchery escapement reports
can be found at http://wdfw.wa.gov/hat/escape/escape.htm.
Smolt plants for
the majority of the returning fish for the 2006-2007 season can be found
at http://wdfw.wa.gov/fish/harvest/06-07/smolts.htm
Real-time river
flows can be found at http://www.nwrfc.noaa.gov/river/river.cgi?zoom?2?1.1.1.1.0_1.1.1.1_1?zoom?62,343?165,253
and http://waterdata.usgs.gov/WA/nwis/current/?type=flow.
