Salmon fishing at Buoy 10 has reached its apex with about 100 boats in the water on most days.
Coho have outpaced the Chinook catch in recent days. Effective August 30 through September 1, all Chinook must be adipose or left ventral fin clipped to be retained. Effective Sept. 2, the hatchery coho daily limit will be increased to 3 fish but all Chinook must be released.
At Wind River, boat anglers continue to catch summer run steelhead though most were wild fish and had to be released.
Lower Columbia — Estuary, nine boaters with two adult fall chinook and four steelhead kept plus three steelhead released. (WDFW)
o Cathlamet, 25 bank rods with 2 steelhead kept and 1 released, 16 boater2 with 4 caught. (WDFW)
o Longview, 81 boaters with seven steelhead kept and one released; 119 bank rods with 4 steelhead kept and 6 released. (WDFW)
o Cowlitz River mouth, 57 boaters with 23 steelhead kept and 10 released. (WDFW)
o Kalama, 84 boaters with two steelhead kept and four released and five chinook kept; 117 bank rods with one steelhead kept and none released. (WDFW)
o Woodland, 81 boaters with two steelhead kept and one released and five chinook kept; 111 bank rods with two steelhead and one jack chinook kept plus 21 chinook kept. (WDFW)
o Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 74 boaters with one adult fall chinook, one jack chinook and 23 steelhead kept plus 31 steelhead released; 112 bank rods with one adult fall chinook and 17 steelhead kept plus eight steelhead released. (WDFW)
o Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, 10 boaters with four steelhead kept and two released; 25 bank rods with three steelhead kept and three released. (WDFW)
o Troutdale, Ore., 75 boaters with five fall chinook kept; 12 boaters with one walleye kept and two released. (ODFW)
o Camas-Washougal, 53 boaters with one adult chinook and three steelhead released; three bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
o North Bonneville, 35 bank rods with seven steelhead kept and one released.
o Columbia Gorge (downstream of Bonneville Dam), 17 boaters with no catch; 42 Oregon bank rods with one steelhead kept and three released. (ODFW)
Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, 43 boaters with one adult chinook and 13 steelhead kept plus 19 steelhead released. (WDFW)
Cowlitz — Eighty-five bank rods with seven steelhead plus two adult chinook; 53 boat rods with 44 steelhead and four adult fall chinook kept plus 10 steelhead released. (WDFW)
North Fork Lewis — Nine boaters with three steelhead kept. (WDFW)
Wind — Two boaters with no catch; eight bank rods with two steelhead kept and 11 released. (WDFW)
Drano Lake — 110 boaters with 32 steelhead and seven adult fall chinook kept plus 57 steelhead released. (WDFW)
