Angling effort for spring chinook in the lower Columbia River clearly is building, just not the catch.
Through Sunday, state officials estimate there have been 10,700 angling trips with a kept catch of 61 spring chinook and 39 released. Fifty-seven percent of the kept catch has been of upper Columbia River origin.
Anglers have caught far more winter steelhead, with a kept catch of 158 and another 305 released.
The Bonneville Dam count through Monday is 103 spring chinook. The 10-year-average for the date is 13.
Trout have been stocked recently in three Clark County waters. Lacamas and Battle Ground lakes each got 4,000 rainbow, while Klineline Pond received 1,500.
Walleye fishing has been good at the upper end of The Dalles pool downstream of John Day Dam.
Angler checks from the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Estuary, eight boaters and one bank rod with no spring chinook or steelhead. (WDFW)
Tongue Point to Wauna power lines, 21 boaters with one spring chinook released. (ODFW)
Clatsop Spit to Wauna power lines, six Oregon bank rods with two steelhead kept and one released. (ODFW)
Cathlamet, two boaters and four bank rods with no spring chinook or steelhead. (WDFW)
Longview, 46 boaters with no catch; 56 bank rods with five steelhead kept and nine released. (WDFW)
Kalama, eight boaters with no catch; 25 bank rods with one steelhead released. (WDFW)
Westport, Ore., to Portland, 130 boaters with one spring chinook kept and one released; 267 Oregon bank rods with four steelhead kept plus five steelhead and one spring chinook released. (ODFW)
Woodland, 58 boaters with two adult spring chinook kept; 40 bank rods with one steelhead kept and one released. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 82 boaters and 72 bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, 22 boaters and eight bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Troutdale, Ore., 18 boaters with no spring chinook or steelhead. (ODFW)
Camas-Washougal, nine boaters and 12 bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
North Bonnville, two boaters with no catch; 48 bank rods with two adult spring chinook and one steelhead kept. (WDFW)
Mid-Columbia — The Dalles pool, 29 boaters with 55 walleye kept and four released; two bank rods with no walleye; six boaters with four sublegal sturgeon released; 20 bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
John Day pool, 128 boaters with 62 walleye kept and 25 released; 15 bank rods with five walleye kept; 55 boaters with nine sublegal sturgeon released; 27 bank rods with three sublegal sturgeon released; six boaters with two bass kept and 13 released. (WDFW)
Cowlitz — Seventy boaters with 58 steelhead kept and four released; 50 bank rods with six steelhead kept and two released. Fishing was best near the trout hatchery. (WDFW)
