Coho are providing opportunity at their usual October locations, including the mouth of the Cowlitz River and Lady Island in the lower Columbia plus in the North Fork of the Lewis and Cowlitz rivers.
Bank anglers still are catching coho off the Columbia River north jetty.
Buoy 10 is not over yet either. Oregon officials monitored the Buoy 10 area on Saturday and estimate 452 anglers with 410 coho kept and 57 released — amazing numbers for the first week of October.
Most of the boaters in the Cowlitz are getting their coho downstream of Interstate 5.
Drano Lake is closed to all fishing from 6 p.m. Tuesdays to 6 p.m. Wednesdays this month.
Swift Reservoir is providing excellent catches of 12-inch rainbow trout. Two dozen boats were trolling on Saturday between the boat ramp and the mouth of Drift Creek at the upper end of the reservoir. Try trolling with about 1.5 ounces at 25 to 30 “pulls” of line.
The reservoir is only 14 feet below full pool, so launching is not a problem.
Angler checks from the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Tongue Point to Portland, 127 boaters with 18 adult chinook, three jack chinook, 29 adult coho and one steelhead kept plus two adult coho released. (ODFW)
Longview, six boaters with one jack chinook released. (WDFW)
Cowlitz River mouth, 19 boaters with two adult chinook and 11 adult coho kept plus two adult coho and one adult chinook released. (WDFW)
Kalama, seven boaters with two adult chinook and one jack chinook kept; 24 bank rods with four adult chinook kept. (WDFW)
Woodland, nine boaters with one adult chinook and one adult coho kept; 30 bank rods with one adult chinook kept. (WDFW)
Troutdale, Ore., 178 boaters with 18 adult chinook, four jack chinook and 24 adult coho kept plus three adult coho released; three boaters with seven walleye kept. (ODFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 20 boaters with three adult chinook and one jack chinook kept; 35 bank rods with seven adult chinook, one jack chinook and one coho kept. (WDFW)
Camas-Washougal, 37 boaters with two adult chinook, one jack chinook and eight coho kept plus one coho released. (WDFW)
North Bonneville, 28 bank rods with 12 adult chinook, two jack chinook and one coho kept. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge (downstream of Bonneville Dam), 136 boaters with 43 adult chinook, nine jack chinook and five adult coho kept plus one adult chinook and two adult coho released. (ODFW)
Mid-Columbia — John Day pool, 24 boats with two chinook and one steelhead kept plus one steelhead and one chinook released. (ODFW)
Cowlitz — Fifty boaters with 50 adult coho and three jack coho kept plus 21 adult coho released; 75 bank rods with three adult chinook, 22 adult coho and two steelhead kept plus seven adult chinook and two adult coho released. (WDFW)
Kalama — Eighteen bank rods with 24 adult coho and one jack coho kept plus 21 adult coho and one jack coho released. (WDFW)
North Fork Lewis — Fifty-four bank rods with one adult chinook and seven adult coho kept plus one adult chinook and 15 adult coho released. (WDFW)
Washougal — Eleven bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
