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WDFW Sport Sampling Results for September 3-8, 2002
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Salmon/Steelhead

• Cowlitz River - Producing a variety of fish including fall chinook and coho, summer-run steelhead, and sea-run cutthroat downstream from the I-5 Bridge.
  
• During the past week Tacoma Power's Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery separator recovered 581 fall chinook salmon, two fall chinook jacks, 110 summer-run steelhead, 66 adult spring chinook salmon, five spring chinook jacks, three coho salmon, two chum salmon, one sockeye salmon and three cutthroat trout.
  
• During the week, Tacoma Power employees released 517 fall chinook adults, five fall chinook jacks, 95 spring chinook adults and one spring chinook jack into the upper Cowlitz River at the Day Use Park on Lake Scanewa.
  
• Between September 3 and September 6, Tacoma Power employees recycled 108 summer-run steelhead downstream to the Olequa boat launch.
  
• Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife employees transported one cutthroat trout to the upper Cowlitz River basin during the week.
  
• A total of 36 summer-run steelhead were transported to the Cowlitz Trout Hatchery for broodstock during the week. Through September 4, about 200 fall chinook had been collected for broodstock at the Toutle Hatchery.
  
• River flows at Mayfield Dam are approximately 4,630 cubic feet per second on Monday, September 9. Water visibility is thirteen feet.
  
• Kalama River - Fall chinook and summer-run steelhead are present throughout the lower river though effort and catches have been generally light.
• Lewis River - No reports on angling success. Some early run coho are present in the North Fork as 38 adults had been trapped at Merwin Dam through September 4. Flows were 1,360 cfs today after being up to 4,100 cfs on Saturday.
• Washougal River - Effort and catches have been generally light.
• Wind River - Boat anglers are catching some summer-run steelhead at the mouth of the river.
• Drano Lake and the White Salmon River - Relatively slow for summer-run steelhead.
• Klickitat River - Upriver bright fall chinook, coho, and summer-run steelhead are present in the lower river.
• Buoy 10 - No report is currently available.
• Lower Columbia below Bonneville Dam - Improved for fall chinook last week. Overall, boat anglers averaged better than ½ chinook per rod based on completed trips while bank anglers averaged one per every 10 rods based on mainly incomplete trips. Best catches were between Longview and Woodland. Some hatchery coho are being caught at the mouth of the Cowlitz.
• At Bonneville Dam last weekend, over 24,000 adult fall chinook were counted each day. We should be near the peak of the run.
• Bonneville Pool - Slow this past weekend for fall chinook.
• Hanford Reach - Effort and catch increased last week. Boat anglers averaged one chinook for every ten rods. The fishery at the mouth of the Yakima River harvested about 100 chinook last week.
  

Sturgeon

• No report

Walleye, Bass and other warmwater fish

• No report
  

Trout

• No report