Chinook retention in the Columbia River downstream of Warrior Rock reopens with the arrival today of October, however chinook abundance is starting to wane and it does not appear a lot of coho are coming.
Drano Lake was productive last week and fall chinook continue to be taken off the mouth of other Columbia tributaries in the Gorge.
Goose Lake in Skamania County has been planted with 2,332 cutthroat trout averaging a pound each. The lake is more like a large pond now, with the boat ramp dry due to the low water.
Angler checks by the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Buoy 10, 91 boaters with 15 coho kept. (WDFW) 108 boaters with 27 coho kept plus 13 coho and seven fall chinook released. (ODFW)
Tongue Point to Portland, 368 boaters with 102 adult fall chinook, seven jack chinook and five adult coho kept plus 16 adult fall chinook, one jack chinook and four adult coho released. (ODFW)
Longview, 16 boaters with four adult chinook and one steelhead released; five bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Cowlitz River mouth, four boaters with six chinook released. (WDFW)
Kalama, six boaters with no catch; 17 bank rods with one chinook, one coho and one steelhead released. (WDFW)
Woodland, three bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 312 boaters with 178 adult chinook, seven jack chinook and three adult coho kept plus 11 adult chinook, one jack chinook and two adult coho released; 68 bank rods with 25 adult fall chinook kept. (WDFW)
Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, 39 boaters with five adult chinook and one adult coho kept; 20 bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Troutdale, Ore., 399 anglers with 60 adult fall chinook, four jack chinook and four adult coho kept plus one adult chinook and one adult coho released; 15 boaters with 56 walleye kept and 15 released. (ODFW)
Camas-Washougal, 45 boaters with 10 adult chinook kept plus two adult chinook and one jack chinook released. (WDFW)
North Bonneville, 20 boaters with seven adult chinook kept; 60 bank rods with 16 adult chinook and three jack chinook kept. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge (downstream of Bonneville Dam), 197 boaters with 236 adult chinook, 14 jack chinook, two adult coho and one steelhead kept plus one chinook released. (ODFW)
Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, 21 boaters with 13 adult chinook kept. (WDFW)
Cowlitz — Two-hundred-eighty bank rods with 15 adult chinook, one jack chinook, two adult coho and 24 steelhead kept plus 34 adult chinook, one jack chinook, seven adult coho, five steelhead and eight sea-run cutthroat trout released. (WDFW)
Lewis — Eight boaters with two adult chinook and two steelhead kept plus three adult chinook released; 68 bank rods with five steelhead and one coho jack kept. (WDFW)
Drano Lake — Fifty boaters with 65 adult chinook, five jack chinook, four adult coho and a steelhead kept plus nine adult chinook and two steelhead released. (WDFW)
