Spring chinook angling success continues to wane as the run is nearing its end. A 12-hour gillnet fishery on Wednesday night in the lower Columbia probably won’t help the sport catch rate for the next few days.
Shad numbers are building quickly in the lower Columbia. Decent catches of shad already have been noted near Bonneville Dam.
Walleye fishing has been good for the past two weeks in The Dalles pool in the Columbia Gorge.
Ocean salmon fishing opens Saturday. Anglers may keep two hatchery chinook daily through June 13, then the limit changes to one chinook, one hatchery coho and one chinook or two hatchery coho.
Angler checks from the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Tongue Point to Wauna power lines, three boaters with no catch. (ODFW)
Estuary, 15 boaters with two adult spring chinook and two steelhead kept plus three adult spring chinook released. (WDFW)
Cathlamet, 12 boaters with one adult spring chinook kept and three released; 66 bank rods with five steelhead kept. (WDFW)
Westport, Ore., to Portland, 67 boaters with three adult spring chinook and 11 steelhead kept plus one spring chinook released; four boaters with 40 shad kept; 97 bank rods with four adult spring chinook, six jack chinook and two steelhead kept plus four adult chinook and two jacks released. (ODFW)
Longview, 40 boaters with three adult spring chinook and two steelhead kept plus one adult spring chinook released; 56 bank rods with two steelhead kept plus one steelhead and one adult spring chinook released. (WDFW)
Kalama, 67 boaters with two adult spring chinook and two steelhead kept plus three adult spring chinook released; 51 bank rods with one adult spring chinook released. (WDFW)
Woodland, 63 boaters with six adult spring chinook kept and five released; 90 bank rods with three adult spring chinook and one jack chinook kept plus two adult spring chinook released; four boaters with no walleye. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 93 boaters with two adult and two jack spring chinook kept plus five adult spring chinook released; 99 bank rods with one adult spring chinook kept and two released. (WDFW)
Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, 71 boaters with two adult and one jack spring chinook kept plus two adult chinook released. (WDFW)
Troutdale, 48 boaters with three adult spring chinook and two jack chinook kept plus three adult chinook released; 10 boaters with 24 shad kept. (ODFW)
Camas-Washougal, 37 boaters with three adult chinook one jack chinook and two shad kept plus three adult and two jack chinook released; 40 bank rods with 25 shad; two boaters with two sublegal sturgeon released; 10 boaters with 17 shad kept; 14 bank rods with 31 shad kept; three boaters with no walleye. (WDFW)
North Bonneville, 48 boaters with five adult spring chinook and 40 shad kept plus seven adult and three jack chinook released; 297 bank rods with 24 adult and 17 jack chinook kept plus 27 adult and one jack chinook released; two boaters with 25 shad kept; 286 bank rods with 554 shad kept. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge (downstream of Bonneville Dam), 23 boaters with two adult chinook and one jack chinook kept plus three adult chinook released; 44 boaters with 404 shad kept; 118 Oregon bank rods with 340 shad kept; 24 Oregon bank rods with one adult spring chinook kept. (ODFW)
Mid-Columbia — The Dalles pool, 28 boaters with 72 walleye kept and 18 released; 12 boaters with 24 bass kept and 60 released; four bank rods with 17 bass released; 10 boaters with 33 sublegal sturgeon released; 17 bank rods with five sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
John Day pool, 90 boaters with 72 walleye kept and 18 released; 16 boaters with 27 bass kept and 47 released; nine bank rods with 15 bass kept and one released; 57 boaters with seven legal sturgeon kept plus three oversize and 61 sublegals released; 19 bank rods with six sublegals released. (WDFW)
Cowlitz — Ten boaters with eight adult spring chinook kept; 36 bank rods with four adult and four jack chinook kept. (WDFW)
Kalama — Eleven bank rods with no steelhead. (WDFW)
Wind — Thirteen boaters with three adult spring chinook, one jack chinook and one steelhead kept. (WDFW)
Drano Lake — Twenty-nine boaters with six adult and two jack spring chinook kept plus one chinook released. (WDFW)
Klickitat — Six bank rods with two adult and three jack spring chinook kept. (WDFW)
Lower Willamette — In Multnomah Channel plus downstream of St. Johns Bridge, 1,082 boaters with 57 spring chinook kept and five released. (ODFW)
