Fall chinook catches have held up nicely in the Woodland area and in the Columbia Gorge, especially given the lateness of the year. Chinook fishing also is good at the mouths of the White Salmon and Klickitat rivers.
A handful of anglers are catching trout from Swift Reservoir despite the closure of the boat ramp due to low water. Fishermen with boats small enough to haul in the bed of four-wheel-drive trucks are launching and loading in the sand immediately upstream of the ramp, which is closed by a cable.
Bank angling was slow at Swift on Sunday.
Angler checks from the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Tongue Point to Portland, 114 boaters with 17 adult fall chinook, five jack chinook and three adult coho kept plus one adult chinook and two adult coho released. (ODFW)
Longview, 26 boaters with one adult coho kept and one coho released; 14 bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Cowlitz River mouth, 30 boaters with three adult chinook and three adult coho kept plus one coho released. (WDFW)
Kalama, 34 boaters with five adult chinook, two adult coho and one steelhead kept plus two adult coho released; 105 bank rods with 10 adult chinook kept; two boaters with five legal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Woodland, 166 boaters with 75 adult chinook, six jack chinook, 11 adult coho and one jack coho kept plus five adult chinook and four adult coho released; 46 bank rods with four adult chinook kept plus one adult coho and one steelhead released. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 105 boaters with 27 adult chinook, three jack chinook, one adult coho and one jack coho kept plus one jack chinook and one adult coho released; 24 bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, six boaters and five bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Troutdale, Ore., 114 boaters with 22 adult fall chinook, two jack chinook and one adult coho kept plus three adult chinook, one jack chinook and two adult coho released; seven boaters with nine walleye kept and one released. (ODFW)
Camas-Washougal, 60 boaters with 13 adult chinook kept plus three adult chinook and one adult coho released; eight boaters with four walleye kept and seven released. (WDFW)
North Bonneville, three boaters with two adult chinook kept; 52 bank rods with 23 adult chinook, one jack chinook and one adult coho kept. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge (downstream of Bonneville Dam), 112 boaters with 103 adult chinook and 14 jack chinook kept plus 40 adult chinook released; 18 Oregon bank rods with four adult chinook kept. (ODFW)
Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, 67 boaters with 46 adult chinook and two jack chinook kept plus 13 adult chinook released. (WDFW)
John Day pool, 37 boats with two steelhead and 11 chinook kept plus six steelhead released. (ODFW)
Cowlitz — Fifty-one boaters with one adult coho, five jack coho and two cutthroat trout kept plus one adult coho and one cutthroat trout released; 162 bank rods with 11 adult chinook, four adult coho, two jack coho and 18 steelhead kept plus 61 adult chinook, two jack chinook, one adult coho, seven jack coho and one cutthroat trout released. (WDFW)
Kalama — Nine boaters with 14 steelhead kept and six released; 41 bank rods with one adult chinook, one adult coho and five steelhead kept plus one adult chinook and five steelhead released. (WDFW)
Lewis — Twelve boaters with three adult chinook and two adult coho kept plus two adult chinook released; 74 bank rods with five adult chinook, one jack chinook and one steelhead kept plus seven adult chinook, two adult coho and two jack coho released. (WDFW)
Washougal — Nine bank rods with two adult chinook kept. (WDFW)
Drano Lake — Seventeen boaters with 18 adult chinook kept and eight released; nine bank rods with four adult chinook kept. (WDFW)
Klickitat — Seven boaters with four adult coho kept and two adult chinook released; 25 bank rods with 15 adult chinook kept and one released. (WDFW)
Swift Reservoir — One bank rod with four rainbow trout kept and one bull trout released.
