Fishing report 9/11

Labor Day is long gone, but Buoy 10 is yielding coho for the smattering of anglers still fishing in the Columbia River estuary.

East winds today and Friday probably will make the river too rough for comfortable fishing, but when the weather pattern shifts it might be worth one more trip to the coast.

One caveat: Coho angling at this time of year at Buoy 10 can be exceptional one day, then a bust the next if the fish decide it’s time to head upstream.

Oregon sampled 394 boaters on Sunday with 430 coho. Saturday’s count was almost as good with 339 rods and 307 coho. Washington’s sampling for Friday through Sunday was 273 boaters with 284 coho kept, three coho released and three chinook released.

Chinook retention is closed in the Columbia beginning Monday downstream of Warrior Rock.

Sampling by the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:

Lower Columbia — Tongue Point to Portland, 860 boaters with 309 adult fall chinook, 29 jack chinook, 136 adult coho, two jack coho and five steelhead kept plus 17 adult chinook, 17 jack chinook, 125 adult coho, five jack coho and three steelhead released. (ODFW)

Cathlamet, 13 boaters with one coho kept; three bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)

Longview, 323 boaters with 69 adult chinook, one jack chinook, one coho and two steelhead kept plus three adult chinook and one coho released; 203 bank rods with 27 adult chinook and one jack chinook kept. (WDFW)

Cowlitz River mouth, 270 boaters with 95 adult chinook, eight jack chinook, five coho and nine steelhead kept plus 15 adult chinook, 11 coho and six steelhead released. (WDFW)

Kalama, 196 bank rods with 64 adult chinook and two jacks kept plus two adult chinook released; 192 boaters with 86 adult chinook and two jack chinook kept plus one adult chinook and one coho released. (WDFW)

Woodland, 248 boaters with 132 adult chinook and three jack chinook kept plus five adult chinook released; 102 bank rods with 25 adult chinook kept and one released. (WDFW)

Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 130 boaters with 51 adult chinook and one jack chinook kept plus one coho released; 119 bank rods with 39 adult chinook and one jack chinook kept. (WDFW)

Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, six boaters with four adult chinook kept; 30 bank rods with nine adult chinook and one steelhead kept. (WDFW)

Troutdale, Ore., 324 boaters with 103 adult chinook, one jack chinook and one steelhead kept plus one adult chinook, two jack chinook and one adult coho released; five boaters with five walleye kept. (ODFW)

Camas-Washougal, 97 boaters with three adult chinook and one jack kept plus one adult chinook released; three bank rods with no catch; two boaters with no walleye. (WDFW)

North Bonneville, 50 bank rods with 15 adult chinook and two jack chinook kept; three boaters with two adult chinook kept.

Columbia Gorge (downstream of Bonneville Dam), 57 boaters with 91 adult chinook and three jack chinook kept plus one coho released; 94 Oregon bank rods with 26 adult chinook and three jack chinook kept.

Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, 127 boat rods with 34 adult fall chinook, one jack chinook, one adult coho and three steelhead kept plus two adult chinook and seven steelhead released. (WDFW)

Cowlitz — Sixty-four bank rods with three adult chinook, one adult coho and eight steelhead kept plus three adult chinook and five adult coho released; 62 bank rods with one adult chinook, one jack chinook and one steelhead kept plus two adult chinook released. (WDFW)

Kalama — Two boaters with two adult chinook released; five bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)

North Fork Lewis — Six bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)

Washougal — Sixty-seven bank rods with 13 adult chinook and one jack chinook kept and 16 adult chinook released. (WDFW)

Drano Lake — Forty-nine boater with five adult chinook and 10 steelhead kept plus seven steelhead released. (WDFW)

Klickitat — Three boaters with one adult chinook kept; 22 bank rods with two adult chinook kept. (WDFW)