Sturgeon anglers in the Bonneville pool continue to get a few legal-size fish, but angling is far from good. Weather conditions also have not been conducive to fishing in the Columbia River Gorge.
Several local waters have been stocked with rainbow trout recently.
Silver Lake in Cowlitz County got 3,000 trout. In Klickitat County, Rowland Lake got 3,000 rainbow, Spearfish Lake got 2,000 and Maryhill Pond got 500.
Kress Lake near Kalama was planted with 14 steelhead from Kalama Falls Hatchery.
Angler checks from the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, 43 boaters with one legal sturgeon kept plus two oversize and 64 sublegals released; six bank rods with three sublegals released. (WDFW)
• The Dalles pool, four boaters with one oversize and one sublegal sturgeon released; 19 bank rods with three sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
• John Day pool, two boaters and three bank rods with no sturgeon; five boaters with six walleye kept. (WDFW)
Cowlitz — Fourteen bank rods with no salmon or steelhead. (WDFW)
Seven winter steelhead were collected at Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery during four days of separator operation. Streamflow on Wednesday was 9,860 cubic feet per second at Mayfield Dam. Visibility is 9 feet and the water temperature is 42.1 degrees.
