Salmon anglers at Buoy 10 in the Columbia River estuary are allowed to keep a wild chinook now through Tuesday, Sept. 3, then fishing switches to hatchery-coho only beginning on Wednesday, Sept. 4.
Fishing has been very good at Buoy 10. The most-recent sampling from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife tallied 1,037 boats/3,585 anglers with 1,065 chinook kept, 1,071 chinook released, 1,468 coho kept plus 648 coho and four steelhead released.
Fishery Reports
Lower Columbia River from Rocky Point/Tongue Point line upstream to Bonneville Dam. There were 939 salmonid boats and 215 Washington bank rods tallied during the Aug. 25 flight count.
MAINSTEM COLUMBIA
Salmon/Steelhead
Sec. 1 (Bonneville) — 92 bank anglers kept two Chinook, two jacks and released two jacks; 26 boats/59 rods kept 10 Chinook, one jack and released six Chinook.
Sec 2 (Camas/Washougal) — One bank angler had no catch; 80 boats/161 rods kept 25 Chinook, two jacks and released three Chinook, three jacks and two coho.
Sec 3 (I-5 area) — Two bank anglers had no catch; 11 boats/22 rods released two steelhead.
Sec 4 (Vancouver) — 157 bank anglers kept 16 Chinook; 114 boats/226 rods kept 26 Chinook, two jacks, two coho and released three Chinook and five steelhead.
Sec 5 (Woodland) — 149 bank anglers kept five Chinook; 85 boats/193 rods kept 29 Chinook, two coho, one coho jack and released four Chinook, one jack, four coho and eight steelhead.
Sec 6 (Kalama) — 319 bank anglers kept 31 Chinook, one coho and released three Chinook; 50 boats/113 rods kept 25 Chinook, one jack, three coho and released two Chinook and one coho.
Sec 7 (Cowlitz) — No report; 65 boats/167 rods kept 47 Chinook, four jacks, four coho, one coho jack and released six Chinook, one jack, four coho and two steelhead.
Sec 8 (Longview) — 191 bank anglers kept 32 Chinook, two jacks, two coho and released five steelhead; 144 boats/320 rods kept 85 Chinook, six jacks, 17 coho and released five Chinook and seven coho.
Sec 9 (Cathlamet) — No bank angler report; 39 boats/92 rods kept 22 Chinook, two coho and released two Chinook and two steelhead.
Sec 10 (Cathlamet) — Five bank anglers had no catch; one boat/three rods had no catch.
Sturgeon
Sec 6 (Kalama) — One boat/six rods released one oversize sturgeon.
COLUMBIA TRIBUTARIES
Salmon/Steelhead
Cowlitz River I-5 bridge downstream — 21 bank rods had no catch.
Cowlitz River above the I-5 bridge — 25 bank rods kept six steelhead; 14 boats/37 rods kept 20 steelhead and released two steelhead.
Lewis River — Nine boats/18 rods kept four Chinook, one coho, one steelhead and released two Chinook.
Drano Lake — 11 bank rods kept one Chinook and released two steelhead; 47 boats/100 rods kept 83 Chinook, four Chinook jacks and released 20 steelhead.
ODFW CREEL CHECKS
Bonneville pool — 44 boats/115 rods with 23 adult chinook and three jack chinook kept, nine adult chinook, one coho and three steelhead released.
The Dalles pool — 42 boats/110 anglers with 34 adult chinook, one jack chinook and a steelhead kept plus one chinook released.
John Day pool — 11 boats/23 rods with 16 walleye kept and nine released.
