Summer chinook fishing in the lower Columbia is past its peak and the mark rate is declining, too.
During the first few days of July, just 41 percent of the adult chinook sampled were fin-clipped and able to be retained. The catch of steelhead soon will eclipse salmon until fall chinook arrive. The mark rate for steelhead was 73 percent last week.
Gillnetting from Beacon Rock to the ocean is scheduled from 9 p.m. Monday night until 5 a.m. Tuesday. The netters are expected to catch about 500 chinook.
Council and Takhlakh lakes on the west side of Mount Adams have been stocked. Council got 4,300 rainbow trout, while Takhlakh for 4,300 catchable-size rainbow and 400 4-pounders.
Angler checks from the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Downstream of Puget Island, 21 boaters with one summer chinook, one sockeye and 11 steelhead kept plus two summer chinook and three steelhead released; 12 bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Cathlamet, 50 boaters with 16 steelhead kept plus one chinook, one sockeye and five steelhead released; 30 bank rods with two adult chinook and one steelhead kept plus one steelhead released. (WDFW)
Westport, Ore., to Portland, 118 boaters with seven summer chinook and five steelhead kept plus six summer chinook released; 49 bank rods with three steelhead kept and one jack chinook released. (ODFW)
Longview, 67 boaters with two chinook and six steelhead kept plus four chinook released; 148 bank rods with 23 steelhead and four sockeye kept plus seven steelhead released; two boaters with one sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Cowlitz River mouth, two boaters with one steelhead kept. (WDFW)
Kalama, 146 boaters with three summer chinook, two sockeye and two steelhead kept plus seven chinook and three steelhead released; 146 bank rods with four summer chinook, one sockeye and one steelhead kept plus 14 chinook and one steelhead released; two boaters with one legal and two sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Woodland, 135 boaters with nine summer chinook and one steelhead kept plus 12 summer chinook and one steelhead released; 127 bank rods with four summer chinook and three steelhead kept plus five adult chinook and one jack chinook released. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 32 boaters with one chinook and three steelhead kept plus one chinook and three steelhead released; 129 bank rods with nine summer chinook and three steelhead kept plus seven chinook, four steelhead and a sockeye released. (WDFW)
Davis Bar to Portland airport, nine boaters with no catch; 18 bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Troutdale, Ore., 99 boaters with two summer chinook and one sockeye kept plus one chinook, one steelhad and one sockeye released. (ODFW)
Camas-Washougal, 34 boaters and six bank rods with no catch; seven boaters with one legal and one sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
North Bonneville, seven boaters with no catch; 40 bank rods with six summer chinook and one sockeye kept plus five adult chinook released; 22 bank rods with 28 shad kept. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge (downstream of Bonneville Dam), 47 boaters with three chinook kept plus seven chinook and one steelhead released; 32 Oregon bank rods with seven chinook and one steelhead kept plus five chinook released; 87 Oregon bank rods with 351 shad kept. (ODFW)
Cowlitz — Forty-one boaters with two adult spring chinook and 27 steelhead; 49 bank rods with 12 adult spring chinook, two jack chinook and six steelhead. (WDFW)
Kalama — Twelve boaters with one steelhead kept; 42 bank rods with two hatchery steelhead kept and one wild steelhead released. (WDFW)
East Fork Lewis — Two bank rods with no steelhead. (WDFW)
Drano Lake — Four boaters with one steelhead released; one bank rod with no catch. (WDFW)
Mayfield Reservoir — The lake behind Mayfield Dam has been stocked with 4,000 rainbow trout with 4,000 more coming next week.
