Salmon anglers have lots of choices this weekend, with good chinook catches reported in Drano Lake, at the mouth of the Klickitat River and in the lower Columbia trolling off Bachelor Island. Chinook retention in the lower Columbia remains closed until Oct. 1 downstream of Warrior Rock.
Fishing pressure has been heavy at the mouth of the Klickitat at Lyle. On Saturday, 105 boats were counted there.
State, federal and tribal biologists predict the fall chinook run will total more than 1.1 million this year, about 25 percent higher than originally forecast. However, the coho return may be down significantly.
At Buoy 10, there has been a slight improvement in the catch of coho.
Angler checks from the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Buoy 10 to Tongue Point, 190 anglers with 102 coho kept plus 67 coho and 50 chinook released. (ODFW)
Clatsop Spit to Tongue Point, 108 Oregon bank rods with 24 coho kept plus eight coho, 10 fall chinook and one steelhead released. (ODFW)
Downstream of Puget Island, two boaters with no catch. (WDFW)
Cathlamet, five bank rods with one steelhead released. (WDFW)
Tongue Point to Portland, 267 boaters with 122 adult chinook, 11 jack chinook and four adult coho kept plus 37 adult chinook and four adult coho released. (ODFW)
Longview, 21 boaters with one adult coho kept and one adult chinook released; 33 bank rods with two steelhead kept and two released. (WDFW)
Kalama, 16 boaters with three adult chinook released; 43 bank rods with one steelhead kept plus one steelhead and 10 adult chinook released. (WDFW)
Woodland, one boater with no catch; 44 bank rods with six adult chinook and one jack chinook released. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 273 boaters with 183 adult chinook, nine jack chinook and one coho kept plus three adult chinook released; 110 bank rods with 30 adult and two jack chinook kept plus two adult chinook released. (WDFW)
Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, 20 boaters with four adult chinook kept; 24 bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Troutdale, Ore., 297 boaters with 72 adult chinook, seven jack chinook, three adult coho and one steelhead kept plus three adult chinook, two adult coho and two steelhead released; 10 boaters with 19 walleye kept and 13 walleye released. (ODFW)
Camas-Washougal, 99 boaters with 24 adult chinook kept and one steelhead released; two boaters with five walleye kept and two released. (WDFW)
North Bonneville, seven boaters with two adult chinook kept; 135 bank rods with 67 adult chinook, five jack chinook and one adult coho kept plus one steelhead released. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge (downstream of Bonneville Dam), 188 boaters with 109 adult fall chinook and seven jack chinook kept plus one adult chinook released.; 61 Oregon bank rods with 15 adult chinook kept plus one adult and one jack chinook released; one boater with six walleye kept. (ODFW)
Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, 117 boaters with 87 adult chinook and seven jacks kept. (WDFW)
Drano Lake — Fifty-three boaters with 47 adult chinook, one jack chinook and one steelhead kept plus three steelhead released. (WDFW)
Lewis — Thirty-two bank rods with three coho and three steelhead kept plus one steelhead released. (WDFW)
Cowlitz — Seventy-seven boaters with 56 adult chinook kept plus 69 adult chinook and four adult coho released; 183 bank rods with 21 adult chinook, two adult coho and 11 steelhead kept plus 35 adult chinook and one steelhead released. (WDFW)
