Cowlitz
River from the I-5 Bridge downstream - Anglers continue to
catch a variety of fish including fall chinook, coho, steelhead, and
sea run cutthroats.
Kalama River
- Bank anglers are catching fall chinook, coho, and steelhead.
North Fork
Lewis River - Anglers are catching coho and some fall chinook
around the salmon hatchery.
Washougal
River - Bank anglers on the lower river are catching fall chinook.
Drano Lake
- Boat anglers averaged a steelhead per rod when including
fish released.
White Salmon
River - Anglers are catching fall chinook, coho, and steelhead.
Klickitat
River - Bank anglers are catching fall chinook.
Yakima River
- Season is starting off a little slow as usual. Just a handful
of anglers targeting on salmon. No salmon were sampled this week. One
angler reporte catching a chinook the day prior to contact. A few fish
are surfacing in the Chandler and Prosser areas. No anglers were observed
in the Yakima River above Prosser and no anglers interviewed below Benton
City were fishing for salmon.
Buoy 10
- Based on sampling at the Ports of Chinook and Ilwaco, fishing
is still slow. Last week boat anglers averaged a chinook and coho per
every 45 and 9.4 rods, respectively.
In August, an estimated
31,759 anglers trips produced 1,523 chinook and 2,786 coho
Lower Columbia
below Bonneville Dam - During the first three days of September
we sampled 877 salmonid anglers (including 313 boats) with 165 adult
and 3 jack fall chinook kept and 4 adults released, 1 jack coho kept
and 2 adults released, and 3 steelhead kept. Chinook were caught throughout
the river. Best catches were by boat anglers in the Woodland to Vancouver
area that averaged an adult chinook kept per every 3 rods. Overall boat
anglers averaged an adult chinook kept per every 4.7 rods while bank
anglers averaged one per every 39 rods based on mainly complete and
incomplete trips, respectively.
The August sport
catch of 4,990 adult chinook was the second highest on record (record
is 5,100 fish in 2002). Effort (34,641 angler trips) was on par with
that found from 2000-2003 (record 41,600 angler trips in 2000).
Adult chinook daily
counts at Bonneville Dam have been >10,000 fish since September 2.
A Joint State Hearing
has been scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Thursday September 7, 2006. The purpose
of the Joint State Hearing is to review salmon stock status and update
Lower Columbia River recreational fisheries.
Bonneville
Pool - Boat anglers are catching chinook, coho, and steelhead
at the mouths of the Washington tributaries. Around 20 to 25 boats were
counted off the mouths of the White Salmon and Klickitat rivers last
Sunday morning.
Steelhead are ascending
The Dalles Dam in larger numbers the past few days with >5,700 fish
counted daily.
Hanford
Reach - No adult chinook were observed caught and effort is
still low. Reports of chinook holding at the mouth of the Yakima though
no effort has been recorded there. Warm weather and low fish counts
may have kept many anglers home.
