Summer becomes fall on Monday in the main Columbia River with the arrival of August.
The biggest change, of course, is that anglers can keep any chinook, not just fin-clipped chinook, in most circumstances.
Several regulations in Columbia River tributaries also begin Monday. Among them:
• The Lewis River including the North Fork upstream to the power lines near Merwin Dam, opens for hatchery chinook and hatchery coho. The daily salmon limit will be six fish, of which no more than two can be adults. Wild chinook retention in the Lewis will begin on Sept. 24.
• Wind River will be open with a six-fish limit, of which no more than two may be adult salmon or hatchery steelhead, or one of each. Wild coho must be released and wild chinook upstream of the state Highway 14 Bridge must be released
• Drano Lake will have a daily limit of six salmon, of which no more than three may be adults and only two may be hatchery steelhead. Only fish hooked inside the mouth may be retained.
• The Klickitat River from the BNSF railroad bridge upstream to Fisher Hill Bridge and from Fishway No. 5 upstream to markers below Klickitat Salmon Hatchery opens. The daily salmon limit is six fish, of which no more than three may be adults and no more than two may be coho.
Angler sampling by the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Tongue Point to Wauna power lines, two boaters with no catch. (ODFW)
Downstream of Puget Island, 49 boaters with one adult summer chinook and 20 steelhead kept plus one adult chinook and eight steelhead released; 16 bank rods with no catch; four boaters with 30 legal, three oversize and 10 sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Cathlamet, 80 boaters with one adult summer chinook, two sockeye and 36 steelhead kept plus one adult chinook and nine steelhead released; 87 bank rods with eight steelhead kept and six released. (WDFW)
Westport, Ore., to Portland, 142 boaters with one adult summer chinook, 21 steelhead and two sockeye kept plus one adult chinook, two jack chinook and 10 steelhead released; 31 Oregon bank rods with one jack chinook kept. (ODFW)
Longview, 128 boaters with 35 steelhead kept plus 19 steelhead and two adult chinook released; 302 bank rods with 38 steelhead and three sockeye kept plus 12 steelhead released; six boaters with six legal and six sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Cowlitz River mouth, 17 boaters with one steelhead kept. (WDFW)
Kalama, 82 boaters with two adult summer chinook and three steelhead kept plus one adult chinook and four steelhead released; 325 bank rods with 13 adult summer chinook, nine steelhead and one sockeye kept plus 14 adult chinook and six steelhead released; four boaters with one legal, one oversize and 10 sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Woodland, 85 boaters with one adult chinook, one jack chinook, one sockeye and three steelhead kept plus one adult chinook released; 368 bank rods with one adult chinook, two sockeye and 19 steelhead kept plus two adult chinook, one jack chinook and 28 steelhead released; six boaters with six legal, one oversize and 10 sublegal sturgeon kept. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 86 boaters with two steelhead kept plus six adult chinook, one jack chinook, four steelhead and two sockeye released; 186 bank rods with six adult chinook and five steelhead kept plus six adult chinook, one jack chinook and five steelhead released; two boaters with two walleye kept and one released. (WDFW)
Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, 14 boaters with one steelhead released; 42 bank rods with two steelhead kept and one released. (WDFW)
Troutdale, Ore., 73 boaters with two adult chinook and two jack chinook kept plus six adult chinook released. (ODFW)
Camas-Washougal, 36 boaters with two adult chinook released; two bank rods with no salmon or steelhead; 21 boaters with 20 walleye kept; two boaters with three sublegal sturgeon kept. (WDFW)
North Bonneville, four boaters with one steelhead kept and three released; 75 bank rods with three adult chinook and two steelhead kept plus one adult chinook and 14 steelhead kept. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge (downstream of Bonneville Dam), 66 boaters with two adult chinook, one jack chinook and two steelhead kept plus three adult chinook, one jack chinook and one steelhead released; 53 Oregon bank rods with two steelhead and one sockeye kept plus one adult chinook and two steelhead released. (ODFW)
Cowlitz — Fifty-nine boaters with 30 steelhead kept and two released; 22 bank rods with two adult spring chinook and two steelhead kept. Almost all of the steelhead were sampled near the trout hatchery. (WDFW)
Kalama — Five boaters with three steelhead kept and one released; 35 bank rods with eight steelhead kept and two released. (WDFW)
Drano Lake — Twenty-two bank rods with five steelhead kept and three released; 151 boaters with one adult chinook and 100 steelhead kept plus 67 steelhead released. (WDFW)
Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, three boaters with no salmon or steelhead. (WDFW)
