Sturgeon anglers get the rare opportunity to keep a fish on Saturday, one of two retention days scheduled in the Bonneville pool of the Columbia River.
The daily limit is one sturgeon between 38 and 54 inches fork length. Fishing is closed the spawning sancturary, which is from The Dalles Dam downstream for 1.8 miles to a line from the east dock at the Port of The Dalles straight across to a marker on the Washington shore.
The other sturgeon retention day in Bonneville pool will be July 1.
A bit of catch-and-release sturgeon fishing continues in the lower Columbia. Washington sampled 29 anglers with 59 legal sturgeon released between Woodland and Longview last week.
Chinook fishing continues in the lower Columbia with a catch rate of about a salmon per 10 rods and a 50 percent mark rate. More steelhead were sampled than chinook. The steelhead mark rate was 88 percent.
Steelhead catches have been decent downstream of Longview.
Sampling by the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Tongue Point to Wauna power lines, 10 boaters with three adult chinook and one steelhead kept. (ODFW)
Downstream of Puget Island, 60 boaters with six adult chinook and five steelhead kept plus four adult chinook and two jacks released; 28 bank rods with eight steelhead kept. (WDFW)
Cathlamet, 172 boaters with 83 steelhead and five adult chinook kept plus five adult chinook and 12 steelhead released; 88 bank rods with 10 steelhead kept and two released. (WDFW)
Westport, Ore., to Portland, 239 boaters with 19 adult chinook and 21 steelhead kept plus 14 adult chinook, four steelhead and one sockeye released. (ODFW)
Longview, 320 boaters with 11 adult chinook, one jack chinook and 75 steelhead kept plus nine adult chinook, eight steelhead and four sockeye released; 235 bank rods with 13 steelhead and one adult chinook kept plus one steelhead and one sockeye released. (WDFW)
Cowlitz River mouth, 19 boaters with four adult chinook and one steelhead kept plus one steelhead released; five bank rods with one steelhead kept and three released. (WDFW)
Kalama, 124 boaters with five adult chinook, two jack chinook and 17 steelhead kept plus four adult chinook, one steelhead and one sockeye released; 195 bank rods with nine adult chinook and one steelhead kept plus 18 adult chinook, one jack chinook and two steelhead released. (WDFW)
Woodland, 52 boaters with one adult chinook and one steelhead kept plus two adult chinook released; 163 bank rods with 10 adult chinook and three steelhead kept plus 11 adult chinook released; three boaters with nine walleye kept. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 83 boaters with four adult chinook and one steelhead kept plus three adult chinook and one steelhead released; 63 bank rods with 13 adult chinook kept and 13 adult chinook released. (WDFW)
Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, 24 boaters with no catch; 28 bank rods with one adult chinook and one steelhead kept plus one adult chinook and one sockeye released; two boaters with one shad kept. (WDFW)
Troutdale, Ore., 119 boaters with seven chinook kept and 11 released; 12 boaters with two shad kept. (ODFW)
Camas-Washougal, 80 boaters with five adult chinook, one jack chinook and one steelhead kept plus five adult chinook and one jack released; 10 bank rods with no catch; 10 boaters with no shad; nine bank rods with eight shad kept; two boaters with one walleye kept. (WDFW)
North Bonneville, 31 boaters with one adult chinook kept and six released; 192 bank rods with 30 adult chinook and four jack chinook kept plus 16 adult chinook released; 17 boaters with 93 shad kept and 20 released; 729 bank rods with 2,421 shad kept and 48 released. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge, 16 boaters with one chinook kept; 26 boaters with 250 shad kept; 246 Oregon bank rods with 1,050 shad kept. (ODFW)
Cowlitz — Forty-one boaters with nine adult chinook, one jack chinook and 13 steelhead kept plus one steelhead released; 168 bank rods with 31 adult chinook, 14 jack chinook and seven steelhead kept. (WDFW)
East Fork Lewis — Nine bank rods with no steelhead. (WDFW)
Kalama — Six boaters with one chinook kept; 66 bank rods with two chinook and one steelhead kept plus three steelhead released. (WDFW)
Lower Willamette — Fifty-two boaters with 172 shad kept; 1,149 angler trips with 179 spring chinook kept and 30 released. (ODFW)
