Coho continue to provide some action in the Cowlitz, North Fork of the Lewis and lower Klickitat rivers, but salmon season is virtually complete.
Walleye fishing in The Dalles pool has been excellent.
Several regulations will change on Dec. 1.
Among them:
• Fishing for hatchery steelhead, hatchery coho and adipose or ventral fin-clipped chinook begins in the Grays River from the Highway 4 Bridge to the South Fork and in the West Fork of the Grays from the mouth to 300 yards downstream of the hatchery road bridge.
• Angling closes in Swift Reservoir on the upper North Fork of the Lewis River.
The reservoir on Tuesday was 21 feet below full pool, so plenty of water for launching at Swift Forest Park.
• Fishing opens in Mill Creek, a Cowlitz River tributary, for hatchery steelhead, hatchery sea-run cutthroat trout and hatchery salmon from the mouth to the salmon hatchery road crossing culvert.
Selective gear rules along with night closure and anti-snagging rules apply for the one-month season.
• Fishing closes in the Toutle River from the mouth to the forks, in the North Fork of the Toutle and the Green River.
Angler checks from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. No Washington sampling was available this week.
Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, eight boaters with 18 sublegal and one oversize sturgeon released; eight boaters with six walleye released. (ODFW)
• The Dalles pool, two boaters with one steelhead kept; two bank rods with no catch; seven boaters with four legal, seven sublegal and two oversize sturgeon released; 51 boaters with 528 walleye kept and 140 released. (ODFW)
• John Day pool, 13 boaters with one steelhead kept and two released; 13 bank rods with one steelhead kept and four released; nine boaters with 21 sublegal sturgeon released; 65 boaters with 57 walleye kept and five released. (ODFW)
• John Day River arm, five boaters with three steelhead released. (ODFW)
