ILWACO — Ocean salmon angling remains excellent off the southern Washington and northern Oregon coasts with a catch average of 1.62 fish per trip.
The daily bag limit is two salmon, one of which can be a chinook. Coho must be fin-clipped.
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife reported today that last week there were 1,854 angler trips with a catch of 247 chinook and 2,760 coho between Cape Falcon in Oregon and Leadbetter Point in Washington.
Through Sunday, 13.9 percent of the coho quota had been taken and 13.8 percent of the chinook guideline.
At Westport, the catch average was 1.03 salmon per rod for the week. Chinook were 35 percent of the catch at Westport, which has used 17.9 percent of its coho quota and 29.2 percent of its chinook guideline.
