It’s new world beginning Friday in the lower Columbia River when the fall regulations apply, although it will take the chinook run a week or two to build.
Steelhead will continue to supply the lion’s share of the catch. Last week, 47 percent of the steelhead sampled by Washington were fin-clipped.
Steelhead fishing also has been good in the Cowlitz River at Mission Bar and Blue Creek, plus is ramping up in Drano Lake in the Columbia Gorge.
Angler sampling by the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Estuary, four boaters with two steelhead kept; 11 bank rods with one steelhead released. (WDFW)
Astoria Bridge to Wauna power lines, 19 boaters with 13 steelhead kept and three released. (ODFW)
Cathlamet, 61 boaters with 37 steelhead and two sockeye kept plus 13 steelhead released; 80 bank rods with 14 steelhead kept and three released. (WDFW)
Westport, Ore., to Portland, 137 boaters with one jack chinook and 40 steelhead kept plus one adult summer chinook, one jack chinook and 33 steelhead released. (ODFW)
Longview, 84 boaters with 13 steelhead kept and 15 released; 277 bank rods with 39 steelhead and one jack chinook kept plus 20 steelhead released. (WDFW)
Cowlitz River mouth, 14 boaters with eight steelhead kept and 10 released. (WDFW)
Kalama, 189 boaters with 37 steelhead kept plus 39 steelhead and two summer chinook released; 344 bank rods with 41 steelhead and one adult summer chinook kept plus 55 steelhead released. (WDFW)
Woodland, 53 boaters with 12 steelhead kept and nine released; 163 bank rods with 24 steelhead and one adult summer chinook kept plus 31 steelhead and one jack chinook released; seven boaters with eight legal and seven sublegals released; seven boaters with 11 walleye kept. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 69 boaters with 15 steelhead kept plus 14 steelhead and two adult chinook released; 174 bank rods with 22 steelhead and one adult summer chinook kept plus one jack chinook and 18 steelhead released. (WDFW)
Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, four boaters with one steelhead and one adult summer chinook released; 60 bank rods with five steelhead kept and five released. (WDFW)
Troutdale, 47 boaters with six steelhead and one jack chinook kept plus three steelhead released. (ODFW)
Camas-Washougal, 74 boaters with eight steelhead and two sockeye kept plus 22 steelhead and one adult summer chinook released; 17 bank rods with one steelhead released. (WDFW)
North Bonneville, eight boaters with six steelhead released; 215 bank rods with 41 steelhead, one sockeye and one adult chinook kept plus 100 steelhead, one adult chinook and two jacks released; two boaters with one legal and 11 sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge (downstream of Bonneville Dam), 46 boaters with five steelhead kept plus two adult summer chinook and 21 steelhead released; 49 Oregon bank rods with one adult summer chinook and one steelhead kept plus three steelhead released. (ODFW)
Mid-Columbia — The Dalles pool, three boaters with seven walleye kept and one released; four boaters with six bass kept and 10 released. (WDFW)
Cowlitz — Forty-three bank rods with four steelhead and four jack chinook kept plus 42 jack chinook released; 106 boaters with 103 steelhead kept. (WDFW)
Lewis — Three boaters with no steelhead. (WDFW)
Wind — Four bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Drano Lake — Eighty-three boaters with 31 steelhead kept and 61 released. (WDFW)
Klickitat — Two bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
