Fishing report, Sept. 13

The fall salmon season is closed from Buoy 10 upstream to U.S. Highway 395 in Pasco, starting as of Thursday. The river was closed by emergency order. Chinook retention is still allowed in Washington tributaries.

White sturgeon retention is closed from Buoy 10 upstream to the Oregon/Washington Border above McNary Dam, but remains an option for catch-and-release fishing. White Sturgeon retention will be allowed from the Wauna Powerlines to the Bonneville Dam on Sept. 15 and 22.

Walleye fishing is fair in the John Day Pool.

Steelhead retention is closed in the main stem Columbia River, and is also closed in Drano Lake, the Wind River, and the White Salmon River.

Trout fishing continues to be good in high elevation lakes, and is improving with the cooler temps.

Bass and panfish are still biting in the Columbia River and local lakes.

Salmon/Steelhead

Buoy 10 to Tongue Point — from Sept. 1-2, 398 anglers kept 70 coho.

Tongue Point to Bonneville Dam — 107 bank angers kept seven adult and one jack Chinook. They released one adult and 1 jack Chinook, and one steelhead. 703 boat anglers kept 172 adult Chinook, 11 jack Chinook and six coho. They released 14 adult and six jack Chinook, one steelhead, and three coho.

Elochoman River — 1 bank angler had no catch.

Cowlitz River — I-5 Bridge downstream: Nine boats/25 rods kept six chinook, six jacks, two steelhead and released 26 chinook, five jacks and two steelhead. Above the I-5 Bridge: Three boats/six rods kept two steelhead.

Kalama River — No anglers sampled.

Lewis River — No anglers sampled.

Wind River — Two bank anglers had no catch. Two boats/three rods had no catch.

Drano Lake — Five boats/nine rods kept three chinook, one jack.

Klickitat River — 19 bank anglers kept four chinook.

Sturgeon

Lower Columbia below Bonneville Dam — Light effort and catch during the current catch-and-release fishery.

The 2018 Wauna-Bonneville Dam Recreational White Sturgeon Fishery is open the next two Saturdays.

Area: Mainstem Columbia River from the Wauna powerlines upstream to Bonneville Dam.

Daily bag limit: One fish

Legal size: 44-inch minimum and 50-inch maximum fork length (Fork length is measured in a straight line from the tip of the nose to the fork in the caudal fin (tail) with the fish laying on its side on a flat surface, with the tape measure/ruler positioned flat under the fish).

Annual bag limit: Two fish.

Retention of green sturgeon is prohibited.

Recent trout plants

Fall trout stockings have begun, and these trout are much larger than those that are stocked in the spring and summer.

Goose Lake, (Skamania County) 1,100 cutthroat stocked on Aug. 29 at over a pound each.

Mayfield Reservoir, (Lewis County) 7,840 rainbows at 1.3 per pound were stocked from Aug. 15-30

Walleye

Bonneville Pool — Five anglers kept one walleye

John Day Pool — 66 anglers kept 20 walleye and released three.