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Fishing report 7/22

The Columbian
Published: July 22, 2010, 12:00am

It’s mostly a steelhead show in the lower Columbia as the summer chinook run is virtually done and fall chinook won’t be around in force for a few more weeks.

At the coast, ocean salmon anglers fishing out of the Columbia River ports averaged 1.02 fish per rod last week, with 75 percent of the catch coho. Through Sunday, 12.7 percent of the coho quota and 5.6 percent of the chinook guideline had been landed.

Kokanee anglers in Merwin and Yale reservoirs continue to find spotty results, with limits some days and only a few fish on others. Merwin appears to be producing a better catch rate than Yale, although the fish are at 40 feet and deeper in both lakes.

Walleye fishing is improving slowly in the Washougal area.

Boaters in the Blue Creek area in the Cowlitz River are doing very well for steelhead.

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

Lower Columbia — Cape Disappointment ramp, six boaters with no sturgeon. (WDFW)

Ilwaco, 95 charter anglers with 46 legal sturgeon kept plus 13 oversize and 47 sublegal released; 54 private boaters with nine legal sturgeon kept plus four oversize and seven sublegals released. (WDFW)

Clatsop Spit to Jones Beach, 83 bank rods with 17 steelhead kept plus six steelhead released. (ODFW)

Chinook, 124 boaters with 20 legal sturgeon kept plus five oversize and 18 sublegals released. (WDFW)

Tongue Point to Puget Island, 31 boaters with 10 steelhead kept and two released. (ODFW)

Knappton, Deep River ramps, 142 boaters with 39 legal sturgeon kept plus 16 oversize and 65 sublegals released. (WDFW)

Astoria Bridge to Cathlamet, 72 bank rods with 15 steelhead kept and one released; 15 boaters with six steelhead kept. (WDFW)

Cathlamet, 49 boaters with 20 steelhead kept and three released; 230 bank rods with 31 steelhead kept and 16 released. (WDFW)

Longview to Portland, 82 boaters with six steelhead kept and two released; 46 boaters with one legal sturgeon kept plus 39 sublegals released. (ODFW)

Longview, 169 boaters with 34 steelhead kept and 16 released; 679 bank rods with 93 steelhead and one sockeye kept plus 29 steelhead released; 13 boaters with 21 sublegal sturgeon released; nine bank rods with one legal sturgeon kept and two sublegals released. (WDFW)

Cowlitz River mouth, 23 boaters with no salmon or steelhead. (WDFW)

Kalama, 65 boaters with five steelhead and one summer chinook kept plus eight steelhead released; 372 bank rods with 43 steelhead, one adult summer chinook, and one jack kept plus 40 steelhead and two adult chinook released. (WDFW)

Woodland, 27 boaters with six steelhead kept and five released; 230 bank rods with 18 steelhead and one summer chinook kept plus 20 steelhead released; 13 bank rods with five sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)

Lewis River to Kelley Point, 31 boaters with 12 steelhead and one summer chinook kept plus 11 steelhead released; 155 bank rods with 16 steelhead and two summer chinook kept plus 10 steelhead released; two bank rods with no sturgeon. (WDFW)

Troutdale, 147 boaters with three summer chinook and 13 steelhead kept plus five summer chinook and 15 steelhead released; 22 boaters with one legal sturgeon kept plus one legal and 51 sublegals released; 19 boaters with 13 walleye kept. (ODFW)

Camas-Washougal, 26 bank rods with one steelhead kept and one released; 42 boaters with three steelhead and one summer chinook kept plus nine steelhead released; 28 boaters with 47 sublegal sturgeon released; 15 boaters with four walleye kept. (WDFW)

North Bonneville, 27 boaters with three steelhead kept plus 10 steelhead and one summer chinook released; 204 bank rods with 41 steelhead and four summer chinook kept plus 54 steelhead, two adult summer chinook, and one jack chinook released; two bank rods with one shad; three boaters with one walleye kept. (WDFW)

Columbia Gorge (downstream of Marker 82), three boaters with one oversize and 22 sublegal sturgeon released. (ODFW)

Columbia Gorge (downstream of Bonneville Dam), 88 boaters with two summer chinook and 13 steelhead kept plus one summer chinook and 31 steelhead released. (ODFW)

Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, four boaters with one steelhead kept and nine released. (WDFW)

The Dalles pool, 34 bank rods with nine steelhead and one summer chinook kept plus 13 steelhead released; two boaters with two walleye kept; four bank rods with two bass kept. (WDFW)

Several walleye have been taken by steelhead trollers off the mouth of the Deschutes River. (ODFW)

John Day pool, two bank rods with no salmon or steelhead; 53 boaters with 61 walleye kept and 15 released; seven boaters with two shad kept and 28 released. (WDFW)

Boardman to McNary Dam, 26 boaters with 76 walleye kept.

Cowlitz — Blue Creek, 34 bank rods with five steelhead; 48 boaters with 45 steelhead. (WDFW)

Drano Lake — Five boaters with one jack chinook kept. (WDFW)

Yale Reservoir — Three trollers with seven kokanee kept with a few smaller fish released.

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