Swift Reservoir opens for the season on Saturday, which also happens to the first day of Free Fishing Weekend.
The state Department of Fish and Wildlife has planted 51,800 rainbow trout in Swift. The reservoir is 5 feet below full pool.
Battle Ground Lake was stocked last week, getting 3,100 rainbow trout.
It’s Free Fishing Weekend in both Washington and Oregon. No fishing license will be required.
Angler sampling by the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Tongue Point to Wauna power lines, seven boaters with two chinook released. (ODFW)
Cathlamet, two boaters with two steelhead kept and one released; two bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Longview, 88 boaters with one adult chinook and two steelhead kept plus one adult chinook released; 15 bank rods with one adult chinook released; six boaters with four sublegal and three oversize sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Westport, Ore., to Portland, 96 boaters with 11 adult chinook, one jack chinook and six steelhead kept plus three chinook released; 41 Oregon bank rods with one chinook released; three boaters with seven legal and eight sublegal sturgeon released. (ODFW)
Kalama, 58 boaters with four adult chinook kept and one released; 47 bank rods with one adult chinook kept and four released; one boater with five legal and three sublegal sturgeon released; two boaters with three shad kept. (WDFW)
Woodland, 54 boaters with four adult chinook kept and two released; 49 bank rods with one jack chinook kept; two boaters with 10 sublegal sturgeon released; four boaters with no shad. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 34 boaters with two chinook kept and two released; 62 bank rods with three adult chinook and one jack kept plus three adult chinook released; two boaters with nine sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, 22 boaters with no catch. (WDFW)
Troutdale, Ore., 77 boaters with four adult chinook kept and two released; two boaters with five sublegal sturgeon released. (ODFW)
Camas-Washougal, 59 boaters with three adult chinook kept and four released; eight bank rods with no catch; 38 boaters with four shad kept; two boaters with two walleye kept and two released. (WDFW)
North Bonneville, 38 boaters with four adult chinook kept and one released; 178 bank rods with 19 adult and five jack chinook kept plus three adult chinook released; 11 boaters with eight shad kept; 229 bank rods with 107 shad kept. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge (downstream of Bonneville Dam), 56 boaters with eight adult chinook and one jack kept plus one adult chinook released; 23 boaters with 10 shad kept. (ODFW)
Mid-Columbia — The Dalles pool, seven boaters with 20 walleye kept; three boaters with 22 bass released. (WDFW)
John Day pool, 83 boaters with 285 walleye kept and 31 released; 12 boaters with 23 bass kept and 140 released. (WDFW)
Cowlitz — Seven boaters with one adult chinook and two jacks kept; 33 bank rods with one adult chinook, two jacks and three steelhead kept. (WDFW)
Merwin Reservoir — Two boaters with two kokanee.
Yale Reservoir — Two boaters with four kokanee kept and two released. The kept fish averaged 10 inches.
