Washington and Oregon officials will meet at 2 p.m. today in a teleconference to review the spring chinook sport fishery in the lower Columbia River and determine if the season closes beginning Sunday as scheduled.
From Friday through Sunday, anglers on the lower Columbia made 16,030 trips and caught 3,292 spring chinook and 21 steelhead. Eighty-six percent of the chinook were kept.
State officials today also will consider adopting a summer sturgeon retention season for the Bonneville pool.
Lacamas Lake has been stocked with 4,000 brown trout and Klineline Pond got 1,000 brown trout.
Klineline Pond is closed today through Saturday to the public in order to host the Klineline Kids Fish-In event.
Silver Lake in Cowlitz County got 3,900 rainbow trout.
Angler sampling from the Washington and Oregon departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Downstream of Puget Island, 223 boaters with 74 adult spring chinook kept and 15 released. (WDFW)
Cathlamet, 77 boaters with 23 adult spring chinook kept and one released; 14 bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Longview, 368 boaters with 52 adult spring chinook and one steelhead kept plus seven spring chinook released; 33 bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Cowlitz River mouth, eight boaters with three adult spring chinook kept. (WDFW)
Kalama, 167 boaters with 38 adult chinook kept and five released; 12 bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Woodland, 322 boaters with 91 adult spring chinook and one jack kept plus six adult chinook released; 46 bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 365 boaters with 63 adult chinook kept plus seven adult chinook and one jack released; 71 bank rods with one steelhead kept. (WDFW)
Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, 238 boaters with 42 adult spring chinook kept and 12 released. (WDFW)
Camas-Washougal, 83 boaters with eight spring chinook kept and five released; 10 bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge, six boaters with one adult spring chinook released; 185 bank rods with 10 adult spring chinook kept and six released. (WDFW)
Mid-Columbia — The Dalles pool, 78 boaters with 143 walleye kept and 29 released; seven boaters with 14 bass kept and 20 released; 21 bank rods with one spring chinook kept; two boaters with no salmon; 15 boaters with one legal sturgeon and 38 sublegals released; 13 bank rods with two sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
John Day pool, 30 boaters with 36 bass kept and 335 released; 237 boaters with 401 walleye kept and 198 released; 14 bank rods with no salmon or steelhead; 84 boaters with four legal sturgeon released plus 81 sublegals released; 18 bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Lower Willamette/Multnomah Channel — Oregon estimated 2,316 boaters with 257 spring chinook kept and 42 releasedlast week.
At Willamette Falls, the river is 55 degrees with 5 feet of visibility. (ODFW)
Cowlitz — One-hundred-fifty-five boaters with 132 steelhead and 15 adult spring chinook kept plus four steelhead released; 153 bank rods with 20 steelhead and 18 adult spring chinook kept. (WDFW)
Wind — Two boaters with no spring chinook. (WDFW)
Drano Lake — Four boaters and one bank rod with no spring chinook.
Wednesday is the first of the scheduled Wednesday closures that run through June.
Also beginning Wednesday, only bank fishing is allowed west of the line from the eastern pillar of the Highway 14 Bridge to a marker on the north shore. (WDFW)
