Angling pressure is getting intense at the mouth of the Wind River and Drano Lake, with good catches of about a hatchery adult spring chinook per 4.5 boat rods reported.
Since Sunday, 35,000 spring chinook have passed Bonneville Dam.
Summer steelhead have showed up in the past week in the Cowlitz and Lewis rivers plus at Drano Lake.
Bank anglers also are getting a few spring chinook at the mouth of Drano Lake.
Washington and Oregon officials are scheduled to meet at 10 a.m. today to review the spring chinook catches between Bonneville Dam and the state boundary, east of Umatilla, Ore., and determine if an extension is possible. The season was scheduled to close beginning Saturday.
Walleye fishing remains good in The Dalles pool.
• In the lower Willamette, the catch average last week was a chinook per seven rods. Oregon estimates there were 4,501 angler trips with 510 spring chinook kept and 124 released.
The lower Willamette’s catch-and-release sturgeon fishery is good with 156 anglers releasing 288 legals, 55 oversize and 447 sublegals.
The water temperature at Willamette Falls is 58 degrees, with 6 feet of visibility.
Angler checks from the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, 65 bank rods with three adult spring chinook kept. (WDFW)
• The Dalles, 94 bank rods with eight adult spring chinook kept and four wild chinook released; 82 boaters with nine spring chinook kept and three released; 13 boaters with 32 walleye kept and 14 released; four boaters with nine bass kept and 18 released.(WDFW)
• John Day pool, 87 boaters with three adult spring chinook kept; 65 bank rods with three spring chinook kept and one released; 34 boaters with 58 walleye kept and 84 released; 14 boaters with 23 bass kept and 101 released; 46 boaters with nine legal sturgeon kept plus nine oversize and 24 sublegals released. (WDFW)
Cowlitz — Eight boaters with eight adult spring chinook; 261 bank rods with 88 adult spring chinook, 10 jack chinook and one steelhead kept plus one adult chinook released. (WDFW)
Wind — At the mouth, 285 boaters with 63 adult chinook kept and five released; 13 bank rods with one adult spring chinook. In the gorge, 16 bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Drano Lake — Thirty-four bank rods with two adult spring chinook and two summer steelhead kept; 336 boaters with 76 adult spring chinook kept and five released. (WDFW)
Klickitat — Sixteen bank rods with one adult spring chinook released. (WDFW)
