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WDFW Sport Sampling Results for September 30-October 6, 2002
Sport Sampling Summaries - PDF Format

Salmon/Steelhead

• Grays River - No report on angling success. Under permanent regulations to protect chum salmon, closes to all fishing beginning October 16. Re-opens to fishing for hatchery winter steelhead downstream of the Hwy. 4 Bridge effective November 15 and above the the Hwy. 4 Bridge (including the West Fork) beginning December 15.
• Cowlitz River - Bank anglers are catching some adult hatchery coho near the mouth of the Toutle. No boats were sampled last week.
  
• During the past week Tacoma Power's Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery separator recovered 4,248 coho salmon, 894 coho jacks, 1,529 fall chinook salmon, 36 fall chinook jacks, 98 summer-run steelhead and 14 cutthroat trout during seven days of separator operations.
  
• Tacoma Power employees released 2,951 coho adults, 859 coho jacks, 580 fall chinook adults and 61 fall chinook jacks, into the upper Cowlitz River at the Day Use Park on Lake Scanewa during the week.
  
• In addition, between September 29 and October 5, Tacoma Power employees released 545 coho salmon, 124 coho jacks, 117 fall chinook adults, four chinook jacks and four cutthroat trout into the Tilton River arm of Mayfield Lake at the Ike Kinswa State Park boat ramp. A total of 229 coho adults, 31 coho jacks, 14 fall chinook adults and two cutthroat trout were released at Gust Backstrom Park in Morton during the week.
  
• A total of 103 summer-run steelhead and seven cutthroat trout were recycled downstream to the Olequa boat launch during the week.
  
• River flows at Mayfield Dam are approximately 4,610 cubic feet per second on Monday, October 7. Water visibility is nine feet.
• Toutle River (Including Green River) - Bank anglers continue to catch adult hatchery coho. Fish are being caught upstream and downstream from the hatchery on the Green River. Quite a few fall chinook are also being caught on the Green but all must be released.
• Kalama River - Bank anglers averaged an adult hatchery coho per every 7.7 rods last week.
• Lewis River - Bank anglers around the hatchery are catching some hatchery coho and while boat anglers are catching fall chinook.
• Washougal River - Slow for fall chinook. No coho have been sampled in the catch yet.
• Bonneville Pool tributaries - The best fishing has probably been for hatchery coho on the lower Klickitat . A couple dozen boats were observed at the mouth of the Klickitat yesterday (Monday Oct. 7).
• Yakima River - Fishing improved on the lower Yakima to an adult chinook per every 4.5 rods last week.
• Lower Columbia below Bonneville Dam - Effort and catches continues to wane. Hatchery coho outnumbered fall chinook in the catch between Longview and Woodland last week. Fall chinook fishing is best just below Bonneville Dam.
• Bonneville Pool - Boat anglers are catching a mixture of coho and hatchery steelhead.
• Hanford Reach - Catch rates were the same as the previous week, an adult chinook per every 2.9 rods. About 120 boat trailers were counted in the Vernita Bridge area last Saturday (Oct. 5).
  

Sturgeon

• Lower Columbia below Bonneville Dam - A few more anglers observed last week in the current catch and release fishery.
• Bonneville Pool - Some legals are being caught in this catch and keep fishery.

Walleye, Bass and other warmwater fish

• No report
  

Trout

• No report