Fall chinook angling in the Woodland-to-Vancouver stretch of the lower Columbia River has been exceptional for early October.
Washington officials sampled 664 anglers with 249 adult chinook, 14 jacks and five coho in the first four days of the October. Those are very good numbers for this time of year, when the vast majority of the chinook run is long past Bonneville Dam.
More than 550 boats were counted on Saturday’s flight, with 114 boats off Bachelor Island.
The commercials landed 595 chinook and 304 coho last Thursday from 32 deliveries. No catch results were available from Monday’s or Wednesday’s tangle-net fishery downstream of the Lewis River mouth.
The Columbia River Compact on Wednesday adopted commercial fishing periods for Thursday night from Beacon Rock to the coast and Monday from Woodland to the coast.
Angler checks from the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Downstream of Puget Island, four boaters with one adult coho released. (WDFW)
Cathlamet, four bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Longview, 15 bank rods with one adult chinook kept; 45 boaters with three adult chinook and one adult coho kept plus one jack chinook and one adult coho released. (WDFW)
Kalama, 44 boaters with 18 adult chinook and one jack chinook kept plus one adult chinook released; 68 bank rods with 15 adult chinook kept. (WDFW)
Woodland, 41 bank rods with 11 adult chinook and one jack chinook kept; 49 boaters with 30 adult chinook kept. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 235 boaters with 140 adult chinook, 11 jack chinook and one adult coho kept kept plus five adult chinook, one jack chinook and one adult coho released; 54 bank rods with seven adult chinook kept. (WDFW)
Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, 10 boaters with one adult chinook kept. (WDFW)
Camas-Washougal, 33 boaters with five adult chinook kept. (WDFW)
North Bonneville, 15 boaters with three adult chinook kept; 45 bank rods with nine adult chinook kept. (WDFW)
Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool tributary mouths, 33 boaters with 25 adult chinook and four jack chinook kept. (WDFW)
John Day pool, 21 boats with seven adult fall chinook, three jack chinook and three steelhead kept. (ODFW)
Cowlitz — Thirty-nine boaters with three adult chinook, one adult coho and one steelhead kept plus six adult chinook and three steelhead released; 148 bank rods with 20 adult chinook, two jack chinook, one adult coho and five steelhead kept plus 30 adult chinook and one steelhead released. (WDFW)
Lewis — Forty-nine bank rods with two adult coho kept plus three adult chinook released. (WDFW)
Drano Lake — Thirty-two boaters with 25 adult chinook and one adult coho kept plus 17 adult chinook and three sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Klickitat — Fifty bank rods with 41 adult chinook kept plus 13 released; four boaters with three adult chinook kept. (WDFW)
