Takhlakh and Council lakes on the west side of Mount Adams have been stocked with rainbow trout.
Takhlakh got more than 4,100 trout, ranging from catchable-size to 3.5 pounds each. Council Lake got 3,600 catchable-size rainbow.
Both lakes are outside the closure zone enacted due to the Horseshoe Fire in the Mount Adams Wilderness.
Warm water temperatures and decreasing flows are taking a toll on chinook catches.
Angling effort is building at the mouth of the Cowlitz River.
The gillnetters fished in the lower Columbia on Wednesday night and will fish again from Beacon Rock to the coast on Tuesday night.
Ocean salmon angling has been excellent. The latest numbers for southern Washington and northern Oregon are 1.7 salmon per rod with coho 81 percent of the catch.
Angler checks from the Washington and Oregon departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Megler-Astoria Bridge to Wauna power lines, five boaters with no salmon or steelhead. (ODFW)
Westport, Ore., to Portland, 75 boaters with seven adult summer chinook, two sockeye and eight steelhead kept; 60 Oregon bank rods with two adult summer chinook and one sockeye kept. (ODFW)
Troutdale, Ore., 62 boaters with seven adult chinook and one steelhead kept. (ODFW)
Columbia Gorge (downstream of Bonneville Dam), 12 boaters with two adult chinook and one jack; three boaters with two shad kept; 56 Oregon bank rods with 18 adult and two jack chinook; 51 Oregon bank rods with 250 shad kept. (ODFW)
Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, 336 boaters with 42 legal sturgeon kept plus seven legals, 29 oversize and 675 sublegals released; 74 bank rods with three legal sturgeon kept and 34 sublegals released.
Sturgeon retention is closed now.
Thirty-three boaters with four hatchery summer chinook kept plus seven wild chinook and one hatchery chinook released; 11 bank rods with one hatchery chinook kept; 19 boaters with three bass kept and 89 released; six bank rods with one bass released. (WDFW)
Cowlitz — At the barrier dam, 13 bank rods with 10 adult spring chinook kept and three released. (WDFW)
