State officials are proposing an 8-inch minimum-size limit for trout and landlocked salmon caught in Swift Reservoir on the upper North Fork of the Lewis River.
Currently, there is no minimum-size limit at Swift. There is a 15-inch maximum-size limit for salmon to protect adult coho and chinook released into the 4,500-acre reservoir as part of the salmon and steelhead reintroduction effort.
The 8-inch minimum size would be intended to prevent the harvest of the young salmon and steelhead that are off-spring of those transplanted adults. Those young fish move through the reservoir en route to being captured at Swift Dam and trucked downstream of Woodland for release into the Lewis.
Swift is managed under landlocked lake rules, meaning the salmon count toward the daily trout limit.
Swift opens June 4. The bag limit is five fish through Aug. 31 and 10 fish in September through November.
