Canyon Creek and the Little White Salmon River open for angling on Saturday.
Canyon Creek is being planted with 5,500 catchable-size rainbow trout, while the Little White Salmon River will get 3,000.
Klineline Pond was stocked last week with 4,000 rainbow trout. Kidney Lake near North Bonneville got an additional 1,500 as did Spearfish Lake in Klickitat County.
Angling effort was fairly high on Saturday’s reopening of the lower Columbia River. Oregon’s aerial survey tallied 555 boats and 821 bank rods between Bonneville Dam and Tongue Point.
Last weekend, anglers made an estimated 6,258 trips on the lower Columbia, keeping 773 spring chinook and 64 steelhead, while releasing 326 chinook, six steelhead and three sockeye.
Kokanee have started biting in Yale Reservoir. Although smaller than Merwin’s kokanee, Yale’s fish are larger than some years, when they pass through the mesh of a trout net.
Angler checks from the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Downstream of Puget Island, six boaters with three steelhead kept and one released. (WDFW)
Cathlamet, 15 boaters with three adult spring chinook kept and one released; seven bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Westport, Ore., to Portland, 179 boaters with 21 adult spring chinook, 10 jack chinook and two steelhead kept plus eight adult chinook, one jack chinook and one sockeye released. (ODFW)
Longview, 34 boaters with one adult chinook kept; seven bank rods with no catch; 11 boaters with three legal sturgeon and 31 sublegals released. (WDFW)
Kalama, 57 boaters with two adult chinook and two jacks kept plus three adult chinook released; 43 bank rods with no catch; five boaters with one legal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Woodland, 64 boaters with four adult spring chinook kept and two adult chinook released; 33 bank rods with one adult chinook kept; two boaters with eight walleye kept. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 60 boaters with six adult and two jack chinook kept plus four adult chinook released; 29 bank rods with one adult chinook kept. (WDFW)
Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, 50 boaters with two adult chinook kept and one jack released; nine bank rods with no catch; four boaters with 30 sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Troutdale, Ore., 147 boaters with six adult chinook and two jack chinook kept plus 11 adult chinook released. (ODFW)
Camas-Washougal, 45 boaters with three adult chinook kept and four released; six bank rods with no catch; one boater with no walleye. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge (downstream of Beacon Rock), 21 boaters with two adult chinook and one jack kept plus four adult chinook released. (ODFW)
Columbia Gorge, Oregon side, 42 bank rods with seven adult and 10 jack chinook kept plus five adult chinook released; 38 anglers with 47 shad kept. (ODFW)
North Bonneville, 102 bank rods with 28 adult chinook and six jacks kept plus eight adult chinook released. (WDFW)
Mid-Columbia — The Dalles pool, seven boaters with 19 walleye kept. (WDFW)
John Day pool, 54 boaters with 190 walleye kept plus 37 released; six boaters with 13 bass kept and 42 released. (WDFW)
Cowlitz — Twenty-one boaters with three adult chinook and two jacks kept; 99 bank rods with four adult chinook and one jack kept. The daily bag limit for chinook is now three hatchery fish. Anglers with a two-pole endorsement may fish with two rods upstream to the barrier dam. (WDFW)
Wind — At the mouth, 90 boaters with 19 spring chinook kept; eight bank rods with no catch. The adult spring chinook bag limit has been increased to three fish. (WDFW)
Drano Lake — Thirteen bank rods with no catch; 226 boaters with 41 adult spring chinook and one jack kept. The adult spring chinook bag limit has been increased to three fish. (WDFW)
Klickitat — Forty bank rods with eight adult spring chinook and two jacks kept plus two adult released. (WDFW)
Merwin Reservoir — One boater with five kokanee.
