Angling activity is winding down quickly on the lower Columbia River, although there are a dozen boats or more many days at the mouth of the Cowlitz, at Lady Island and just downstream of Bonneville Dam.
Late-stock coho are providing almost all the catch as the chinook run is target-gone-by this late in the year. Coho fishing is very good throughout the Cowlitz River.
Swift Reservoir continues to yield limits of trout. The limit is 10 fish and the reservoir is open through Nov. 30. The reservoir is 15 feet below full pool.
Angler checks from the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Tongue Point to Portland, 58 boaters with two adult chinook and 16 adult coho kept plus five adult coho released. (ODFW)
Cathlamet, two bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Longview, 57 boaters with 42 coho and one chinook kept plus one chinook and eight coho released; 14 bank rods with three coho kept. (WDFW)
Kalama, 13 boaters with three chinook kept; 20 bank rods with five chinook kept. (WDFW)
Woodland, three boaters with no catch; six bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 11 bank rods with one coho kept; three boaters with no catch. (WDFW)
Troutdale, Ore., 109 boaters with nine adult chinook, 12 adult coho and one jack coho kept plus three adult coho released; four boaters with 15 walleye kept. (ODFW)
Camas-Washougal, six boaters with no catch. (WDFW)
North Bonneville, 35 bank rods with three chinook kept. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge (downstream of Bonneville Dam), 109 boaters with 34 adult fall chinook, one jack chinook and 11 adult coho kept. (ODFW)
Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, 40 boaters with eight adult chinook, three jack chinook and four adult coho kept. (WDFW)
John Day pool, 21 boats with two steelhead and one jack chinook kept plus three steelhead released. (ODFW)
Cowlitz — One-hundred-seventy-four boaters with 156 adult coho and nine jack coho kept plus 11 adult chinook, 31 adult coho, two jack coho and two cutthroat trout released; 209 bank rods with 102 adult coho, two jack coho, three adult chinook and six steelhead kept plus eight adult chinook, 30 adult coho, one jack coho and one steelhead released. (WDFW)
Kalama — Fourteen bank rods with four adult chinook kept. (WDFW)
North Fork Lewis — Nineteen bank rods with four adult chinook, eight adult coho and one jack coho kept plus one adult chinook and four adult coho released. (WDFW)
