Lower portions
of Abernathy, Coal, Germany, and Mill creeks near Longview - Re-open
to fishing for hatchery steelhead beginning November 1. All streams
remain closed to fishing for salmon year round.
Cowlitz River
- Bank anglers at the Barrier Dam are catching some coho.
Last week, Tacoma
Power recovered 4,377 coho salmon adults, 910 jacks, 608 fall chinook
adults, 66 jacks, 40 summer-run steelhead and eleven cutthroat trout
at the Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery separator during seven days of operations.
Tacoma Power employees
released 853 adult and 253 coho jacks into Riffe Lake at the Taidnapam
North boat launch, 381 adult and seven coho jacks into Lake Scanewa
at the Day Use Site, and 299 adult and 56 fall chinook jacks, 74 adult
and six coho jacks and two cutthroat trout into the Tilton River at
Gust Backstrom Park in Morton, Washington during the week.
River flows at Mayfield
Dam are approximately at 3,640 cubic feet per second on Monday, October
15. Water visibility is over 12 feet.
Kalama River
- Light effort though some coho are being caught.
Lewis River -
Some coho are being caught though most were released.
Drano Lake and
White Salmon River - Light effort at both locations although some
coho are being caught at the White Salmon River.
Klickitat River
- Bank anglers are catching some fall chinook. By permanent rule,
all chinook must be released from 400 feet upstream from #5 fishway
to the boundary markers below the salmon hatchery beginning November
1.
Yakima River
- Angler activity picked up this past week. WDFW staff interviewed
218 anglers (22% of the effort). An estimated 82 adult chinook, 87 jacks
and 8 coho were harvested. As of Oct 14, an estimated 186 adult chinook,
161 jacks, and 8 coho have been harvested. One steelhead was reported
caught and released. Anglers averaged 11 hours per fish.
Next Monday (October
22) is the last scheduled day to fish for salmon.
Lower Columbia
below Bonneville Dam - Boat anglers in the gorge are mainly catching
fall chinook while those from Woodland to Camas/Washougal are primarily
catching coho.
By permanent rule,
Beacon Rock upstream to Bonneville Dam will close to fishing for salmon
beginning November 1.
Bonneville Pool
- Boat anglers are catching fall chinook and coho. Effort is heaviest
around the mouth of the Klickitat.
Ringold -
WDFW staff interviewed 337 anglers this past week (35% of the effort).
Harvest was slow again with only 70 steelhead retained. A larger percentage
of the catch (30%) was comprised of wild and adipose only clipped steelhead.
As of Oct 14, an estimated 291 steelhead have been caught during the
fishery with 139 adipose-right ventral fin clipped retained and 6 ad
clipped only fish retained.
Note: Ad
clipped only fish must be released through October. In addition 71
wild steelhead have been caught and released.
Hanford Reach
- Effort and catch dropped last week. Anglers averaged 1 fish for
every 13.4 pole hours or 1 fish for every 2.4 rods. Most anglers fishing
in the lower reach were targeting steelhead and chinook. Fish condition
has been decent with a few coho also being caught. The salmon season
from the Old Hanford townsite wooden powerline towers to Vernita Bridge
will be closed beginning October 23.
