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WDFW Sport Sampling Results for September 9-15, 2002
Sport Sampling Summaries - PDF Format

Salmon/Steelhead

• Cowlitz River - Boat anglers from the I-5 Bridge are catching good numbers of fall chinook and hatchery coho. Flows below Mayfield Dam were 4,590 cfs today.
• North Fork Toutle and Green River - Bank anglers are catching good numbers of fall chinook and hatchery coho although about half the chinook are reported being released. Weyerhaeuser has closed public access to the hatchery.
• Kalama River - Bank anglers are catching some fall chinook and hatchery coho.
• Lewis River - Anglers are catching some fall chinook and hatchery coho. Flows below Merwin Dam were 1,360 cfs today.
• Washougal River - Good numbers of fall chinook are present.
• Wind River - Light effort and catches.
• Drano Lake and White Salmon River - Boat anglers are catching some fall chinook, hatchery coho and hatchery steelhead at Drano Lake and as well as bank anglers at the White Salmon River.
• Klickitat River - Bank anglers are catching upriver bright stock fall chinook.
• Buoy 10 - No report is currently available.
• Lower Columbia below Bonneville Dam - Boat anglers averaged about an adult chinook per every 4 rods based on completed trips while bank anglers averaged one per every 13.4 rods based on mainly incomplete trips last week. Increasing numbers of hatchery coho are being caught by boat anglers at the mouth of the Cowlitz River.
• Bonneville Pool - Boat anglers are catching a mixture of tule and upriver bright fall chinook off the mouths of Drano Lake and the White Salmon River.
• Hanford Reach - No report is currently available.
  

Sturgeon

• No report

Walleye, Bass and other warmwater fish

• No report
  

Trout

• No report