Summer chinook fishing continues to wane and summer steelhead fishing to build in the lower Columbia River as it gets deeper into July.
Only 35 percent of the adult summer chinook reported caught were hatchery fish and could be kept. The mark rate for steelhead was 72 percent.
Eight fall chinook — denoted by passive integrated transponder tags — have been detected at Bonneville Dam so far. A couple of chum salmon were observed in Monday night’s gillnet catch. There are a few summer chinook that return to the Cowlitz River.
Kokanee fishing has slowed at Yale Reservoir.
Mayfield Reservoir on the Cowlitz River was stocked with 4,000 rainbow trout last week with 4,000 more due next week.
Angler sampling by the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Tongue Point to Wauna power lines, 17 boaters with three steelhead kept and one released; four Oregon bank rods with one steelhead kept. (ODFW)
Downstream of Puget Island, 63 boaters with one adult summer chinook, 19 steelhead and one sockeye kept plus two adult summer chinook, six steelhead and one sockeye released; 40 bank rods with six steelhead kept and one released. (WDFW)
Cathlamet, 67 boaters with 24 steelhead and one sockeye kept plus nine steelhead and one sockeye released; 137 bank rods with one adult chinook, 16 steelhead and one sockeye kept plus four steelhead released. (WDFW)
Westport, Ore. to Portland, 414 boaters with 17 adult summer chinook, five sockeye and 33 steelhead kept plus 27 adult chinook and 14 steelhead released; 88 Oregon bank rods with four steelhead and one sockeye kept plus one steelhead released. (ODFW)
Longview, 190 boaters with three adult chinook, 26 steelhead and one sockeye kept plus five adult chinook and six steelhead released; 389 bank rods with one adult chinook, 29 steelhead and two sockeye kept plus two adult chinook and 15 steelhead released. (WDFW)
Cowlitz River mouth, 20 boaters with one steelhead kept plus one adult chinook and two steelhead released. (WDFW)
Kalama, 90 boaters with two adult chinook and seven steelhead kept plus three adult chinook and two steelhead released; 221 bank rods with nine adult chinook, three jack chinook and one steelhead kept plus 34 adult chinook, two jack chinook and three steelhead released; seven boaters with 16 legal and 33 sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Woodland, 173 boaters with nine adult chinook and one sockeye kept plus five adult chinook released; 245 bank rods with five adult chinook, seven steelhead and one sockeye kept plus 11 adult chinook and five steelhead released; two boaters with one walleye released. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 125 boaters with four adult chinook, five steelhead and two sockeye kept plus five adult chinook and one steelhead released; 144 bank rods with four adult chinook, five steelhead and three sockeye kept plus 15 adult chinook and three steelhead released. (WDFW)
Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, 26 bank rods with one sockeye kept plus one steelhead and one adult chinook released. (WDFW)
Troutdale, Ore., 186 boaters with six adult chinook and two steelhead kept plus 16 adult chinook and two steelhead released; 18 boaters with 19 walleye kept. (DFW)
Camas-Washougal, 29 boaters with one adult chinook released; three bank rods with no catch; two boaters with three walleye kept and three released. (WDFW)
North Bonneville, 13 boaters with four adult chinook and one sockeye kept plus two adult chinook released; 120 bank rods with six adult chinook, one jack chinook, five steelhead and three sockeye kept plus seven adult chinook, one jack chinook and one steelhead released. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge (downstream of Bonneville Dam), 100 boaters with 14 adult chinook, one sockeye and two steelhead kept plus 18 adult chinook and two steelhead released; 20 Oregon bank rods with two adult chinook and two steelhead kept plus three adult chinook released; four Oregon bank rods with 10 shad kept. (ODFW)
Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, 15 bank rods with one chinook kept and one released. (ODFW)
