Chinook retention opened today in the lower Columbia River and should be open daily until the summer season ends on June 30.
Chinook retention is closed between Bonneville Dam and the Washington-Oregon state line east of Umatilla, Ore.
Angler sampling from the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Tongue Point to Wauna power lines, 23 boaters with one adult spring chinook and one jack kept plus one adult chinook released. (ODFW)
Cathlamet, 28 boaters with four adult chinook kept and two released; 15 bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Longview, 205 boaters with nine adult spring chinook and two steelhead kept plus five adult chinook and one jack released; 24 bank rods with two adult chinook kept. (WDFW)
Cowlitz River mouth, nine boaters with two adult spring chinook and one jack kept plus one adult chinook released. (WDFW)
Kalama, 227 boaters with 17 adult spring chinook and six jacks kept plus 14 adult chinook and six jacks released; 22 bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Woodland, 132 boaters with 11 adult spring chinook, four jack chinook and one steelhead kept plus four adult chinook and five jacks released; 83 bank rods with two steelhead kept plus two steelhead and one jack chinook released. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 171 boaters with 14 adult spring chinook and three jacks kept plus 10 adult chinook and two jacks released; 23 bank rods with two adult spring chinook and one jack kept. (WDFW)
Westport, Ore., to Portland, 520 boaters with 39 adult spring chinook and 23 jack chinook kept plus 11 adult chinook and one jack released; 260 Oregon bank rods with five adult spring chinook, 10 jack chinook and 10 steelhead kept plus two adult chinook, one jack and one steelhead reeled. (ODFW)
Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, 176 boaters with 10 adult chinook kept plus seven adults and two jacks released. (WDFW)
Troutdale, Ore., 418 boaters with 38 adult spring chinook and 12 jack chinook kept plus 15 adult chinook and one jack released. (ODFW)
Camas-Washougal, 139 boaters with nine adult spring chinook and seven jacks kept plus five adults and one jack released; 36 bank rods with two jacks kept plus three adults and one jack released. (WDFW)
North Bonneville, 264 bank rods with 59 adult spring chinook and 32 jacks kept plus 53 adult chinook and one jack released. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge (downstream of Rooster Rock), 29 boaters with two jack chinook kept and one adult released; 58 Oregon bank rods with nine adult chinook and five jacks kept plus four adult chinook released. (ODFW)
Mid-Columbia — The Dalles pool, nine boaters with two walleye kept; three boaters with six bass kept and 65 released; eight boaters with with six sublegal sturgeon released; nine bank rods with three sublegal sturgeon released; 79 boaters with 21 adult spring chinook kept and 12 released; 81 bank rods with nine chinook kept and 11 released. (ODFW)
John Day pool, one boater with two walleye kept; three boaters with one bass kept and three released; 8 bank rods with one legal sturgeon kept plus one legal and three sublegals released; 56 bank rods with 16 chinook kept and nine released; 90 boaters with 18 chinook kept and six released. (ODFW)
Wind — Three-hundred-fifty-nine boaters with 77 adult chinook and 12 jack chinook kept plus seven adult chinook and one jack released. (WDFW)
Drano Lake — Eleven bank rods with no catch; 260 boaters with 36 adult chinook and eight jacks kept plus one adult chinook and one steelhead released. (WDFW)
Klickitat — Thirty-seven bank rods with five adult chinook, one jack chinook and two steelhead kept. (WDFW)
Cowlitz — Thirty-eight boaters with 17 adult spring chinook and 14 jack chinook kept; 106 bank rods with 11 adult chinook, four jack chinook and two steelhead kept plus one adult chinook released. (WDFW)
