Summer chinook and sockeye retention in the lower Columbia River continues through Monday.
About 40 percent of the chinook were fin-clipped thus able to be retained in the first week of the season, according to Washington and Oregon catch sampling.
The states have scheduled a meeting at 3 p.m. Tuesday to review lower Columbia catches with an eye toward an extension.
Steelhead catches are building, particularly downstream of Longview.
Daily counts of shad at Bonneville Dam are starting to drop, as is expected by late June. The cumulative tally through Tuesday was 2.47 million, almost identical to the 10-year-average of 2.43 million.
Kokanee fishing is not particularly fast at Yale Reservoir. The fish are small this summer, with 11-inchers a rarity.
Ocean anglers off the mouth of the Columbia River are averaging about 1.5 salmon per rod, with the catch about 75 percent coho.
Angler sampling by the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Estuary, 20 boaters with two adult summer chinook and 11 steelhead kept plus three adult chinook and six steelhead released. (WDFW)
Tongue Point to Wauna power lines, seven boaters with no catch. (ODFW)
Cathlamet, six boaters with two steelhead kept and two released; 39 bank rods with two adult summer chinook and seven steelhead kept. (WDFW)
Westport, Ore., to Portland, 65 boaters with six adult summer chinook and four steelhead kept plus 16 adult summer chinook and one sockeye released; 93 Oregon bank rods with four adult summer chinook, four steelhead and two sockeye kept plus two steelhead released. (ODFW)
Longview, 89 boaters with four adult summer chinook and 12 steelhead kept plus five adult summer chinook and four steelhead released; 217 bank rods with 12 steelhead and two sockeye kept plus one jack chinook and five steelhead released; two boaters with three legal sturgeon and 33 sublegals released. (WDFW)
Cowlitz River mouth, 17 boaters with two adult summer chinook and four steelhead kept plus one summer chinook released. (WDFW)
Kalama, 81 boaters with five adult summer chinook, three steelhead and three sockeye kept plus 18 adult summer chinook, one jack chinook and one steelhead released; 124 bank rods with four adult summer chinook kept and 10 released; six boaters with 13 sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Woodland, 80 boaters with three adult summer chinook kept plus seven adult summer chinook and one walleye released; 224 bank rods with nine adult summer chinook and one sockeye kept plus 16 adult summer chinook, four steelhead and one sublegal sturgeon released; 10 boaters with 32 legal and 19 sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 78 boaters with two adult summer chinook, five sockeye and three steelhead kept; 154 bank rods with six adult summer chinook, one jack chinook, one steelhead and one sockeye kept plus nine adult summer chinook and one steelhead released; two boaters with one sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, two boaters with no catch; 21 bank rods with one adult summer chinook, one steelhead and five sockeye kept plus one adult summer chinook and one sockeye released; two boaters with one legal, one oversize and two sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Troutdale, 80 boaters with one adult summer chinook kept plus six adult chinook and one steelhead released. (ODFW)
Camas-Washougal, 94 boaters with nine adult summer chinook and one jack chinook kept plus 13 adult summer chinook and two jacks released; 32 bank rods with one adult summer chinook and one jack chinook kept; five bank rods and four boaters with no shad; five boaters with no walleye. (WDFW)
North Bonneville, 12 boaters with one jack chinook kept and eight adult chinook released; 170 bank rods with 28 adult summer chinook, one jack chinook and one steelhead kept plus 32 adult chinook, two jacks and one sockeye released; nine boaters with 80 shad kept; 249 bank rods with 951 shad kept and 17 released. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge downstream of Bonneville Dam, 62 boaters with four adult summer chinook and six sockeye kept plus seven adult chinook released; 37 boaters with 146 shad kept; 128 Oregon bank rods with 469 shad kept; 20 Oregon bank rods with two adult summer chinook and one sockeye kept plus two adult chinook released. (ODFW)
Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, 78 bank rods with four legal sturgeon kept; 266 boaters with 39 legal sturgeon kept plus 12 oversize and 878 sublegals released; 10 boaters with two bass kept and 38 released; two boaters with two sockeye kept. (WDFW)
The Dalles pool, 22 boaters with three legal sturgeon kept plus 14 sublegals released; 12 boaters with five walleye kept. (WDFW)
Cowlitz — Sixteen boaters with four adult spring chinook, one jack chinook and 14 summer steelhead kept; 72 bank rods with eight adult spring chinook, three jack chinook and five steelhead kept plus two adult chinook released. (WDFW)
Yale Reservoir — Two boaters with six kokanee kept and six released. None of the koaknee were larger than 10.5 inches.
