Trout have been stocked recently in six Southwest Washington waters to spruce up winter angling opportunities.
In Clark County, Battle Ground Lake got 1,500 rainbow and Klineline Pond received 1,350. In Skamania County, Kidney Lake near North Bonneville got 1,000 rainbow.
Rowland Lake near Bingen in Klickitat County was planted with 3,000 trout, while Spearfish Lake got 2,000 and Maryhill Pond got 500.
Sturgeon fishing in the Bonneville pool is slow. The water temperature at Bonneville Dam has dropped to 39 degrees.
Angler checks from the Washington and Oregon departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Salmon Creek — Eight bank rods with three steelhead kept and two released. (WDFW)
Cowlitz — Six boaters with one steelhead kept and one released; 36 bank rods with four steelhead and three coho kept plus two steelhead released. The steelhead were sampled near the trout hatchery, while the coho came from near the barrier dam. (WDFW)
Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, 87 boaters with nine legal sturgeon kept plus one legal, three oversize and 306 sublegal sturgeon released; 57 bank rods with 18 sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
The Dalles pool, 19 boaters with three legal sturgeon kept plus five oversize and 11 sublegal sturgeon released; 34 bank rods with no sturgeon; 16 boaters with 21 wild steelhead released; 16 bank rods with one wild steelhead released. (WDFW)
John Day pool, 26 boaters with two legal sturgeon kept plus one oversize and one sublegal sturgeon released; 40 bank rods with one legal sturgeon kept plus two oversize and five sublegal sturgeon released; one boater with six walleye released; eight boaters with four wild steelhead released; seven bank rods with no steelhead. (WDFW, ODFW)
