Boat ramps at Swift Forest Park and Yale Park on the North Fork of the Lewis River are open again after heavy weekend rains raised the water level in Swift and Yale reservoirs.
The water level in Swift Reservoir was almost 984 feet elevation on Wednesday afternoon. That’s 9 feet higher than the 975 feet elevation at the end of the boat ramp at Swift Forest Park.
Reopening of the ramp gives anglers the rest of November to fish for the 51,000 rainbow trout stocked in Swift in early June. The water level dropped in mid-July to a point where boats no longer could be launched safely.
Briana Weatherly, senior environmental compliance analyst for PacifiCorp, said the projections for the reservoir levels appear to be high enough to maintain use of the boat ramps at least through November.
Angler sampling from the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Tongue Point to Portland, 15 boaters with three adult chinook kept. (ODFW)
Kalama, 24 bank rods with one adult coho released; one boater with no catch. (WDFW)
Woodland, seven boaters with six adult fall chinook kept; four bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 42 boaters with 10 adult fall chinook, one jack chinook, two adult coho kept and two adult coho released; two bank rods with no catch; two boaters with four legal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, five boaters with one adult chinook kept. (WDFW)
Troutdale, Ore., 55 boaters with four adult chinook and two adult coho kept plus one adult chinook and one adult coho released; three boaters with 12 walleye kept. (ODFW)
Camas-Washougal, 23 boaters with four adult chinook and two adult coho kept; two boaters with no walleye. (WDFW)
North Bonneville, 23 boaters with four adult chinook and two adult coho kept; 39 bank rods with 17 adult chinook, one jack chinook and two adult coho kept; one adult chinook released. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge (downstream of Bonneville Dam), 45 boaters with 33 adult chinook kept plus two chinook released; 17 Oregon bank rods with one adult chinook kept. (ODFW)
Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, 16 boaters with two adult chinook and six adult coho kept. (WDFW)
John Day pool, 18 boats with nine steelhead and one fall chinook kept plus 11 steelhead released. (ODFW)
Cowlitz — Sixteen boaters with two jack coho kept plus one adult coho and one adult chinook released; 113 bank rods with four adult chinook, nine adult coho, two jack coho and six steelhead kept plus 49 adult chinook, two jack chinook, five adult coho and 49 jack coho released. Most of the chinook are dark or wild. (WDFW)
Kalama — Fifty-three bank rods with nine hatchery coho and four hatchery steelhead kept plus three wild chinook, one hatchery chinook and three wild steelhead released; 10 boaters with two hatchery coho kept and one wild coho released. (WDFW)
North Fork Lewis — Six boaters with one adult chinook, three adult coho and one jack chinook kept; 51 bank rods with one adult chinook, one adult coho and one jack coho kept plus one adult chinook released. (WDFW)
East Fork Lewis — Ten bank rods with three wild steelhead released. (WDFW)
Drano Lake — Five bank rods with two adult coho kept plus two adult coho released; two boaters with four adult coho kept. (WDFW)
Klickitat — Sixteen boaters with two adult chinook and six adult coho kept plus three adult chinook released; 21 bank rods with nine adult chinook kept and one adult chinook released. (WDFW)
