Trollers were catching chinook as recently as Monday in the Columbia downstream of Caterpillar Island, however the season is just about over.
Good chinook catches were observed in the Washougal area last weekend and also a bite in the Dodson, Ore., area.
Angling effort has dropped way off at the mouth of the Klickitat River, no doubt due to the lack of coho. Only about a dozen boats were fishing at Lyle last Saturday.
Several regulation changes occur Sunday with the arrival of November. Among them:
The North Fork of the Lewis River closes from Colvin Creek to the power lines downstream of Merwin Dam.
Night fishing is allowed again in the Washougal River from the Mount Norway Bridge upstream to Salmon Falls Bridge.
Salmon fishing closes in Wind River.
Fishing closes upstream from the county road downstream of the former Condit Dam powerhouse on the White Salmon River.
Angler sampling by the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Tongue Point to Portland, 36 boaters with four adult fall chinook, one jack chinook and one adult coho kept plus one adult coho released. (ODFW)
Longview, two boaters and eight bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Cowlitz River mouth, 12 boaters with two adult chinook, five adult coho and two jack coho kept plus three adult coho released. (WDFW)
Kalama, 11 boaters with three adult chinook and one adult coho kept; 29 bank rods with three adult chinook kept plus one adult coho and one steelhead released. (WDFW)
Woodland, 47 boaters with 22 adult chinook, three jack chinook and four adult coho kept; 18 bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 78 boaters with 28 adult chinook, two jack chinook and six adult coho kept plus three adult coho and one jack coho released; eight bank rods with no catch; four boaters with no sturgeon. (WDFW)
Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, two bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Troutdale, Ore., 41 boaters with one adult chinook and one adult coho kept; 11 boaters with 22 walleye kept and eight released. (ODFW)
Camas-Washougal, 50 boaters with 20 adult chinook kept plus four adult chinook and four adult coho released; two boaters with one legal and three sublegal sturgeon released; 11 boaters with seven walleye kept. (WDFW)
North Bonneville, nine boaters with four adult chinook kept; 64 bank rods with 10 adult chinook, two adult coho and one jack coho kept plus four adult coho released. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge (downstream of Bonneville Dam), 75 boaters with 59 adult chinook, one jack chinook and one adult coho kept plus two adult chinook and two adult coho released; 22 Oregon bank rods with six adult chinook. (ODFW)
Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, 16 boaters with two adult chinook and two adult coho kept plus one adult chinook released. (WDFW)
John Day pool, 39 boats with two chinook and eight steelhead kept plus nine steelhead released. (ODFW)
Cowlitz — Fifty-five boaters with 10 adult coho, 14 jack coho and 17 cutthroat trout kept plus nine adult chinook, one jack chinook, nine adult coho, two jack coho and three steelhead released; 199 bank rods with 20 adult chinook, 12 adult coho, 10 jack coho, 10 steelhead and seven cutthroat trout kept plus 70 adult chinook, two jack chinook, four adult coho, six jack coho and two cutthroat released. (WDFW)
Kalama — Thirty-seven bank rods with four hatchery steelhead kept, three adult hatchery coho kept and one hatchery jack chinook kept; six boaters with one steelhead and one adult coho kept.
North Fork Lewis — Fifteen boaters with one adult chinook and four adult coho kept plus four adult chinook and one adult coho released; 89 bank rods with five adult chinook, one jack chinook, five adult coho, two jack coho and one steelhead kept plus 11 adult chinook and four adult coho released. (WDFW)
Drano Lake — Two boaters with no catch, 15 bank rods with one adult chinook and four adult coho kept plus one adult chinook released. (WDFW)
Klickitat — Forty-three bank rods with 22 adult chinook and three jack chinook kept plus five adult chinook, one jack chinook and two steelhead released. (WDFW)
