Well, fish hard today through Saturday and again April 16 for spring chinook in the lower Columbia River, then it will be time to shift to Multnomah Channel, Wind River or Drano Lake.
Catches have improved significantly in the past few days and these final days of the fishery should be the best.
Angler checks from the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Tongue Point to Wauna power lines, 91 boaters with 20 spring chinook kept and one released. (ODFW)
Downstream of Puget Island, 142 boaters with 43 adult spring chinook kept and one released. (WDFW)
Cathlamet, 62 boaters with 10 spring chinook kept and one released; 29 bank rods with one steelhead kept and two released. (WDFW)
Westport, Ore., to Portland, 984 boaters with 130 adult chinook and one jack chinook kept plus 32 adult chinook and two jacks released; 241 Oregon bank rods with 16 adult spring chinook kept plus two spring chinook and one steelhead released. (ODFW)
Longview, 561 boaters with 87 spring chinook kept and 11 released; 111 bank rods with seven steelhead kept plus six steelhead and two spring chinook released. (WDFW)
Cowlitz River mouth, 24 boaters with 13 adult spring chinook and one jack chinook kept. (WDFW)
Kalama, 257 boaters with 53 spring chinook and one steelhead kept plus nine chinook released; 19 bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Woodland, 380 boaters with 77 spring chinook and one steelhead kept plus nine chinook released; 72 bank rod with one spring chinook kept. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 306 boaters with 47 spring chinook kept and 11 released; 146 bank rods with eight spring chinook and one steelhead kept plus three spring chinook released. (WDFW)
Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, 220 boaters with 24 spring chinook kept and seven released. (WDFW)
Troutdale, Ore., 216 boaters with 14 spring chinook kept plus six chinook released. (ODFW)
Camas-Washougal, 56 boaters with one spring chinook kept and five released; five bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Reed Island to Beacon Rock, 32 boaters with nine spring chinook kept and one released. (WDFW)
North Bonneville, 313 bank rods with 35 spring chinook kept and two released. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge (downstream of Beacon Rock), 33 boaters with 15 spring chinook kept and two released. (ODFW)
Mid-Columbia — The Dalles pool, 55 boaters with 64 walleye kept; four boaters with one bass kept; 32 bank rods with one steelhead. (WDFW)
John Day pool, 87 boaters with 288 walleye kept and eight released; four bank rods with one walleye kept; 10 boaters with 82 bass released; 27 bank rods with one steelhead released. (WDFW)
Kalama — Eighty-three bank rods with 12 hatchery steelhead kept and 17 wild steelhead released; 15 boaters with two hatchery steelhead and one spring chinook kept plus one hatchery steelhead released. (WDFW)
Lewis– Two bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
North Fork Lewis — Two bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Wind — Six boaters with no catch, but two to three chinook per day are being reported caught. Based on tag detections at Bonneville Dam, almost 300 Carson National Fish Hatchery stock spring chinook have passed the dam. (WDFW)
Drano Lake — Twenty boaters with three spring chinook kept; two bank rods with no catch.
Lower Willamette — Oregon estimates there were 4,210 anglers trips with 617 spring chinook kept and 145 released in the Willamette River downstream of the St. Johns Bridge, including Multnomah Channel.
Kress Lake — Slightly more than 100 winter steelhead have been stocked in the lake recently. (WDFW)
