Chinook fishing reopens Friday in the lower Columbia River, plus trout angling opens for the season on Saturday at Swift Reservoir on the upper North Fork of the Lewis River.
Chinook retention is expected to stay open now through June 15. The summer chinook period then begins June 16 and continues through July 31, when fall chinook retention opens.
Swift Reservoir has been stocked with about 50,000 rainbow trout for Saturday’s opener. The reservoir on Wednesday was 9 feet below full pool.
Kokanee fishing continues to be very hit-and-miss at Merwin Reservoir, but 16-fish limits of kokanee are not uncommon this spring at Yale Reservoir. The Yale fish are averaging 10.5 to 11 inches.
Angler sampling from the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Tongue Point to Wauna power lines, 16 boaters with one adult chinook and one jack chinook kept plus one steelhead released; seven bank rods with one steelhead kept and one released. (ODFW)
Downstream of Puget Island, 37 boaters with four adult chinook and one steelhead kept plus two chinook released; 25 bank rods with eight steelhead kept. (WDFW)
Cathlamet, 32 boaters with two adult chinook and four steelhead kept; 64 bank rods with two steelhead kept and two released. (WDFW)
Westport, Ore., to Portland, 163 boaters with 13 adult chinook, two jack chinook and 12 steelhead kept plus nine adult chinook, one jack chinook and one steelhead released; two boaters with one shad kept. (ODFW)
Longview, 175 boaters with seven adult chinook, one jack chinook and 23 steelhead kept plus two adult chinook released; 189 bank rods with 12 steelhead and one adult chinook kept plus one adult chinook released; three boaters with one legal, one oversize and one sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Cowlitz River mouth, 14 boaters with no catch. (WDFW)
Kalama, 52 boaters with four adult chinook and one steelhead kept plus one adult chinook released; 88 bank rods with two steelhead kept plus one adult and one jack chinook released. (WDFW)
Woodland, 15 boaters with no catch; 89 bank rods with five adult chinook kept and three released. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 73 boaters with four adult chinook kept plus three adult chinook and one steelhead released; 78 bank rods with five adult chinook kept plus three adult chinook and a steelhead released; three boaters with three legal and seven sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, four boaters with no catch; four boaters with eight legal sturgeon, three oversize and five sublegals released. (WDFW)
Troutdale, Ore., 90 boaters with eight adult chinook kept and eight released. (ODFW)
Camas-Washougal, 26 boaters with two adult chinook released; three bank rods with no salmon or steelhead; three bank rods and three boaters with no shad. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge (downstream of Beacon Rock), 10 boaters with two adult chinook kept and four chinook released; eight boaters with 85 shad kept. (ODFW)
Columbia Gorge, 114 bank rods with 710 shad kept and two released. (ODFW)
North Bonneville, five boaters with no salmon or steelhead; 264 bank rods with 36 adult chinook, three jack chinook and one steelhead kept plus 25 adult chinook released; four boaters with 32 shad kept; 280 bank rods with 686 shad kept. (WDFW)
Mid-Columbia — John Day pool, 151 boaters with 436 walleye kept and 246 released; one bank rod with one walleye released; seven boaters with 80 bass kept and 454 released; 76 boaters with 21 legal sturgeon kept, two legal sturgeon released, 10 oversize sturgeon released and 62 sublegals released. Sturgeon retention is now closed in John Day pool. (WDFW)
Cowlitz — Thirty-seven boaters with seven adult spring chinook, three jack chinook and one steelhead kept; 173 bank rods with 26 adult spring chinook, eight jack chinook and one steelhead kept plus three sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Wind — At the mouth, four bank rods with no catch. In the gorge, three bank rods with no catch. In the upper river, three bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Drano Lake — Six boaters with no catch. (WDFW)
Klickitat — Twenty-seven bank rods with six adult chinook, three jack chinook and one steelhead kept plus two jacks released. (WDFW)
