Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Fishing in Southwest WashingtonRegional Offices

CONTENTS
* Attention Anglers!
* Youth Fishing
*

Creel Surveys

Buoy 10 Daily Creel
* Fish Plants
* Private Fish Plants
* Northern Pikeminnow Sport-Reward Fishery
* Types of Lake Fish
* Fish Management in SW Washington
* Warmwater Fish Research
* Sturgeon and Steelhead Tag Recovery
* Lowland Lakes Map

* SW Washington Regional Office

Buoy 10 Fishing
Useful Links
* Columbia River Maritime Museum
* Web cams near the Astoria Bridge
Astoria-Megler Bridge - South
Astoria-Megler Bridge - North
Road Conditions
* Water temps and salinity
* Astoria weather, marine forecasts, buoy data, and sea temps
Weather
Marine forecasts
Male kokanee from Speelyai Bay, Merwin Reservoir.
Male kokanee from Speelyai Bay,
Merwin Reservoir.

Creel Survey
November 16, 2009
Contributed by Joe Hymer

Latest Southwest Washington
Sport Sampling Summaries

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Salmon/Steelhead

Cowlitz River – Anglers continue to catch a mixture of fall Chinook, coho, and steelhead. A 41 pound Chinook was caught at the barrier dam last week. Most of the salmon catch was observed in the upper river. Flows below Mayfield Dam are increasing and expected reach 8,000 cfs today. Flows are expected to remain at that level for at least the next week or so.

Kalama River - More steelhead than salmon continue to be observed in the creel.

Lewis River – Anglers continue to catch coho although the majority of the fish are now being released. Flows below Merwin Dam were 4,400 cfs which is less than the long-term mean of 6,100 cfs for this date.

Klickitat River – Bank anglers from the Fisher Hill Bridge continue to catch coho although fishing reportedly had slowed some the past few days. Anglers still averaged over 1.3 fish per rod when including fish released. A higher percent of the fish caught are being released.

Flows at Pitt continue to range from 750 to 950 cfs the next few days, similar to the long-term mean.

Bonneville Dam – Boat anglers at the mouth of the Klickitat continue to average slightly less than a coho per rod. Effort has declined with only 10 boats counted there yesterday morning.

Sturgeon

Lower Columbia from the Wauna powerlines to Bonneville Dam – Catches in the gorge have improved with the higher flows. Bank anglers just below the dam averaged a legal kept per every 6 rods. Flows below Bonneville Dam have been between 120,000 and 140,000 cfs the past week.

An estimated 16,100 angler trips in October produced 2,200 legal size fish. Most of the fish were caught by Washington and Oregon bank anglers fishing just below Bonneville Dam.

Trout

Silver Lake near Castle Rock – 4,269 catchable size rainbows were planted there Nov. 9.

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