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Fishing report 9/30

The Columbian
Published: September 30, 2010, 12:00am

Sturgeon retention in the Columbia River between the Wauna power lines and Bonneville Dam reopens on Friday.

Through July, anglers caught 2,463 sturgeon, which is 51 percent of the quota of 4,835. The catch is ahead of the rate of past years, fueled by the unique fishery near Rooster Rock this spring.

Sturgeon may be kept Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. The minimum size is 38 inches fork length and the maximum is 54 inches.

Another regulation change beginning Friday:

o All chinook must be released from the Lewis River and the North Fork of the Lewis and fishing from any floating device is prohibited on the North Fork from Johnson Creek upstream to Colvin Creek. The water from Colvin Creek to Merwin Dam is closed to all fishing through mid-December.

Angler checks from the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:

Lower Columbia — Cathlamet, eight bank rods with one steelhead kept. (WDFW)

Longview, 21 bank rods and five boaters with no salmon or steelhead. (WDFW)

Cowlitz River mouth, 31 boaters with four coho kept and two released. (WDFW)

Kalama, 33 bank rods with one steelhead kept. (WDFW)

Longview to Portland, 160 boaters with 12 adult fall chinook, one jack chinook, and five coho kept plus 10 adult chinook, one jack chinook, and three coho released. (ODFW)

Woodland, 25 boaters with two coho and one steelhead kept; 13 bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)

Lewis River to Kelley Point, 166 boaters with 44 adult chinook, one jack chinook, and two adult coho kept plus four adult coho and one steelhead released; 73 bank rods with 11 adult chinook and one jack chinook. (WDFW)

Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, 12 boaters with seven adult chinook. (WDFW)

Troutdale, 301 boaters with 32 adult chinook, four jack chinook, nine adult coho, one jack coho, and two steelhead kept plus two fall chinook and eight coho released; 10 boaters with 20 walleye kept and eight released. (ODFW)

Camas-Washougal, 82 boaters with seven adult chinook, one jack chinook, six adult coho and one steelhead kept plus five adult coho released; seven boaters with six walleye released. (WDFW)

North Bonneville, 153 boaters with 58 adult chinook and two jack chinook; 18 bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)

Columbia Gorge (downstream of Bonneville Dam), 167 boaters with 65 adult chinook, eight jack chinook, and two coho kept; 97 Oregon bank rods with 21 adult chinook, five jack chinook, and one steelhead kept plus one coho and two steelhead released; six Oregon bank rods with two legal and 11 sublegal sturgeon released; nine boaters with two legal, 10 oversize, and 35 sublegal sturgeon released. (ODFW)

Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, 48 boaters with 41 adult chinook, five jack chinook and one coho kept. (WDFW)

Grays — Eleven bank rods with five adult chinook and one adult coho released. (WDFW)

Cowlitz — One-hundred-fifty-two boaters with 41 adult chinook, 13 jack chinook, 42 adult coho, and 18 jack coho kept plus four adult chinook, two jack chinook, five adult coho, and one jack coho released; 119 bank rods with 11 adult chinook and 14 adult coho kept plus one adult chinook and one adult coho released. (WDFW)

Kalama — Five boaters with one adult coho kept plus one adult chinook, one adult coho and one steelhead released; 48 bank rods with three adult coho and one steelhead kept plus two adult and one jack chinook released. Chinook retention is closed. (WDFW)

Lewis — Six bank rods with no catch; 20 boaters with four adult coho kept plus seven adult chinook, two jack chinook, and one adult coho released. (WDFW)

North Fork Lewis — Eight boaters with three adult and one jack coho kept plus one adult chinook, 10 adult coho, and one jack coho released; 154 bank rods with 14 adult coho and three steelhead kept plus one adult chinook and five adult coho released. (WDFW)

Washougal — Seventeen bank rods with one adult chinook kept. (WDFW)

Klickitat — Twenty-five bank rods with 19 adult and one jack chinook kept. (WDFW)

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