Salmon fishing at Buoy 10 at the Columbia River remains good for so early in August.
Sampling on Tuesday on the Washington side tallied 16 boats with 41 anglers who had six chinook and 25 coho kept. Oregon-side numbers were 68 boats, 203 rods, 80 chinook kept and 51 coho kept. Oregon also reported 15 chinook and 50 coho released.
Buoy 10 has been open for almost two weeks now and the catch has stayed relatively consistent.
Drano Lake continues to produce a lot of steelhead, but about two-thirds are wild fish and must be released.
Angler checks from the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Downstream of Puget Island, 19 boaters with nine steelhead kept and 10 released; six bank rods with three steelhead kept and one released. (WDFW)
Cathlamet, 21 boaters with 14 steelhead kept and 12 released; 49 bank rods with four steelhead kept and three released. (WDFW)
Longview, 48 boaters with 28 steelhead kept plus five released; 251 bank rods with 37 steelhead and one jack chinook kept and 12 steelhead released; five boaters with three legal and 31 sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Westport, Ore., to Portland, 44 boaters with two adult fall chinook and 11 steelhead kept plus 16 steelhead released. (ODFW)
Cowlitz River mouth, 23 boaters with two adult fall chinook and nine steelhead kept plus nine steelhead released. (WDFW)
Kalama, 51 boaters with two adult chinook, one jack chinook and seven steelhead kept plus 10 steelhead and one coho released; 224 bank rods with five adult chinook and 23 steelhead kept plus 17 steelhead released; four boaters with two legal and eight sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Woodland, 18 boaters with three adult chinook and one steelhead kept plus one steelhead released; 74 bank rods with one adult chinook and 15 steelhead kept plus six steelhead released; two boaters with three walleye kept. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, six boaters with two steelhead released, eight bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, four boaters no catch; 17 bank rods with five steelhead kept and seven released. (WDFW)
Troutdale, Ore., 48 boaters with three adult fall chinook kept and three steelhead released; 24 boaters with 23 walleye kept and three released; seven boaters with five legal and 12 sublegal walleye released. (ODFW)
Camas-Washougal, seven boaters with no salmon or steelhead; two boaters with no walleye. (WDFW)
North Bonneville, three boaters with no catch; 38 bank rods with three steelhead kept and four released. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge (downstream of Bonneville Dam), three boats with one fall chinook kept; 68 Oregon bank rods with two adult chinook and four summer steelhead kept plus seven steelhead released. (ODFW)
Wind — Nine boaters with four steelhead released. (WDFW)
Drano Lake — Three-hundred-fifty-one boaters with 10 adult chinook and 130 steelhead kept plus 272 steelhead and one sturgeon released. (WDFW)
