Spring chinook catches were good at Wind River and Drano Lake with boaters averaging about a fish per every other rod at Drano and every third rod at Wind River.
Tuesday’s count at Bonneville Dam was huge, at 17,045 spring chinook.
Nearly 950 of the 17,045 were chinook headed for Carson National Fish Hatchery, based on tag readings at Bonneville.
CARSON — Popular Goose Lake in the southern Gifford Pinchot National Forest will be stocked Monday with approximately 1,500 brown trout, according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
The 53-acre mountain lake between Carson and Trout Lake is normally inaccessible due to snow-covered roads until late May, but with this year’s mild winter is available to sportsmen early.
CARSON -- Popular Goose Lake in the southern Gifford Pinchot National Forest will be stocked Monday with approximately 1,500 brown trout, according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
The 53-acre mountain lake between Carson and Trout Lake is normally inaccessible due to snow-covered roads until late May, but with this year's mild winter is available to sportsmen early.
State officials have been getting inquires as to when the lake will be planted with trout.
Just prior to Memorial Day weekend, the agency will plant 2,000 rainbow trout and 6,000 cutthroat trout into Goose Lake.
State officials have been getting inquires as to when the lake will be planted with trout.
Just prior to Memorial Day weekend, the agency will plant 2,000 rainbow trout and 6,000 cutthroat trout into Goose Lake.
The two-pole endorsement applies beginning Friday at Wind River and Drano Lake.
Oregon’s numbers for last week in the Willamette downstream of the St, Johns Bridge plus Multnomah Channel were 8,881 boaters with 1,916 spring chinook kept and 239 released.
That’s about a chinook per four rods, but anglers at the lower end of Multnomah Channel said they are not seeing that good of a bite.
Walleye fishing has been good this spring in The Dalles and John Day pools. State samplers have checked 742 walleye kept in The Dalles pool and 1,556 in the John Day pool this year.
Lacamas Lake was stocked last week with another 6,000 brown trout.
Angler checks from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife:
Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, 88 bank rods with 23 spring chinook kept and one released.
The Dalles pool, 68 bank rods with four spring chinook kept; 26 boaters with six spring chinook kept and one released; 11 boaters with 41 walleye kept; three boaters with 14 bass released; 20 bank rods with four sublegal sturgeon released; six boaters with one oversize and 10 sublegal sturgeon released. John Day pool, 143 bank rods with 26 spring chinook kept and 22 released; 186 boaters with 31 spring chinook kept and 10 released; 36 boaters with 131 walleye kept and 29 released; 14 boaters with 13 bass kept and 34 released; 10 boaters with six sublegal sturgeon released; 10 bank rods with one legal sturgeon kept.
Cowlitz — Seventy-eight boaters with 22 adult spring chinook, five jack chinook and six steelhead kept; 278 bank rods with with 92 adult spring chinook, five jacks and four steelhead kept plus one adult chinook and one steelhead released.
Kalama — Four boaters with no catch; 50 bank rods with seven adult spring chinook kept and three jack chinook released.
Wind — At the mouth, 428 boaters with 134 chinook kept and four released; five bank rods with no catch. In the gorge, 14 bank rods with one chinook kept. (WDFW)
Drano Lake — Forty-nine bank rods with seven spring chinook kept; 225 boaters with 113 spring chinook kept and four released.
Klickitat — Twenty-nine bank rods with three spring chinook and one steelhead kept. (WDFW)
