Boaters trolling at the mouth of the Klickitat River still had excellent success last week, averaging near a coho per rod.
Closer to home, the North Fork of the Lewis and Cowlitz rivers, both which have big coho programs, continue to yield some late coho.
Swift Reservoir remains open through Nov. 30. The reservoir on the North Fork of the Lewis River was 17 feet below full pool on Wednesday. Boats can be launched to 25 feet below full pool.
Angler checks from the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, 34 boaters with one adult chinook and 27 adult coho kept. (WDFW)
The Dalles pool, five boaters with no salmon or steelhead; 38 bank rods with two legal sturgeon kept plus eight oversize and 65 sublegals released; 22 boaters with six sturgeon kept plus six oversize and 93 sublegals released. Sturgeon retention closed on Tuesday and is catch-and-release until January. (WDFW)
John Day River backwater, 21 boats with 10 steelhead kept and 24 wild steelhead released; five bank rods with no catch. (ODFW)
Lewis — Four bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
North Fork Lewis — Thirty-seven boaters with 11 adult chinook, 13 adult coho and five jack coho kept plus five adult chinook, six adult coho and three jack coho released; 96 bank rods with five adult coho, three jack coho and a steelhead kept plus one adult chinook, one adult coho, five jack coho and two cutthroat trout released.
Streamflow on Wednesday was only 1,210 feet per second. (WDFW)
Kalama — Seventy bank rods with six adult coho, one jack coho and three steelhead kept plus one adult coho, two jack coho and a steelhead released; 14 boaters with four adult coho and three jack coho kept plus one adult chinook, one adult coho and one jack coho released. (WDFW)
Cowlitz — Twenty-three boaters with 11 adult coho and two jack coho kept plus two adult coho and two cutthroat trout released; 161 bank rods with one adult chinook, three adult coho and eight jack coho kept plus three jack coho released. (WDFW)
