It’s Memorial Day weekend there are lots of angling options available in Southwest Washington.
For beginners, the lower Columbia will be open for chinook Friday through Monday, then closed for three days, then reopens June 3. When the June 3 reopener arrives, it is anticipated fishing will stay open through June 15, the end of the spring period.
Summer chinook season opens June 16.
• Several streams open for the season on Saturday. The most notable in Clark and Skamania counties are Canyon Creek, which is being stocked with 5,500 rainbow trout, and the upper Little White Salmon River, which will get 3,000 rainbow. Spring Creek in Klickitat County is getting 3,000 rainbow.
• Goose Lake is accessible from the east, although not from the west via Carson and Red Mountain. The lake is being stocked this week with 6,000 cutthroat trout and 1,500 browns.
There are a couple of large logs blocking the boat ramp at Goose Lake, so launching with a trailer is not possible.
• Yale Reservoir is producing decent kokanee catches. The fish are about 11 inches, which is not a bad size at Yale. Saddle Dam boat ramp opens Friday. Yale Park ramp already is open.
• Mayfield Lake on the Cowlitz River was stocked with 4,000 rainbow trout last week
Angler checks from the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Downstream of Puget Island, 11 boaters with two adult spring chinook and one steelhead kept plus one chinook released; 10 bank rods with one steelhead kept. (WDFW)
Cathlamet, 17 boaters with one spring chinook and three steelhead kept; 28 bank rods with one spring chinook and one steelhead kept. (WDFW)
Longview, 111 boaters with seven spring chinook and 14 steelhead kept put two chinook released; 69 bank rods with no catch; four boaters with 52 shad kept. (WDFW)
Cowlitz River mouth, five boaters with one steelhead kept. (WDFW)
Kalama, three boaters with no catch; 60 bank rods with two spring chinook and two steelhead kept. (WDFW)
Woodland, 36 boaters with two spring chinook kept; 73 bank rods with one spring chinook and one steelhead kept plus one steelhead released; five boaters with 12 walleye kept. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 97 boaters with nine spring chinook kept and three released; 65 bank rods with two spring chinook and one steelhead kept plus one chinook released; two boaters with no shad. (WDFW)
Davis Bar to Portland airport, 43 boaters with one spring chinook kept and one released; five bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Camas-Washougal, 36 boaters with three spring chinook released; 10 bank rods with two spring chinook released; 11 bank rods with nine shad kept; one boater with no walleye. (WDFW)
North Bonneville, 12 boaters with three spring chinook kept and one released; 288 bank rods with 39 adult chinook and seven jacks kept plus 16 adults and three jacks released; five boaters with 40 shad kept and 45 released; 60 bank rods with 51 shad kept. (WDFW)
Lower Willamette — Downstream of St. Johns Bridge and Multnomah Channel, 1,657 boaters with 115 spring chinook kept and 19 released. (ODFW)
Mid-Columbia — John Day pool, 118 boaters with 262 walleye kept and 118 released; 22 boaters with 77 bass kept and 419 released; 55 boaters with 13 legal sturgeon kept plus one legal, nine oversize and 50 sublegals released. Saturday is the final day of sturgeon retention in the John Day pool.
Cowlitz — Sixty-nine boaters with 14 spring chinook and one steelhead kept plus two steelhead released; 189 bank rods with 23 adult chinook, 11 jack and three steelhead kept plus 12 sturgeon released. (WDFW)
East Fork Lewis — Nine bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Kalama — Nineteen boaters with one spring chinook and two steelhead kept plus one steelhead released; 92 bank rods with one spring chinook and one steelhead kept plus one steelhead released. (WDFW)
Wind — Twenty-seven boaters with one spring chinook kept. In the gorge, 17 bank rods with one spring chinook kept and one chinook released. (WDFW)
Drano Lake — One-hundred-forty boaters with 15 adult spring chinook, two jack chinook and two steelhead kept; five bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Klickitat — Three boaters with no catch; 44 bank rods with two adult spring chinook and seven jacks kept. (WDFW)
