Salmon and steelhead fishing in the lower Columbia River remains fair for steelhead, but fairly slow for fall chinook.
Last week, anglers made 5,424 trips to catch 389 adult chinook, 359 summer steelhead and three coho. Of the chinook, 379 were kept and 10 released. Of the steelhead, 232 were kept and 127 released.
About half the chinook were caught at Tongue Point, east of Astoria and just upstream from the Buoy 10 fishery.
State, federal and tribal biologists on Monday downgraded the Columbia River steelhead forecast from the initial 256,200 to 149,200. Group A steelhead, the smaller, early-returning group, have been far below expectations.
Angler sampling by the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Tongue Point to Portland, 226 boaters with 28 adult chinook, seven jack chinook, one adult coho and four steelhead kept plus two adult chinook released. (ODFW)
Downstream of Puget Island, seven boaters with no catch; two bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Cathlamet, 25 boaters with seven steelhead kept and two released; 19 bank rods with three steelhead kept. (WDFW)
Longview, 81 boaters with four steelhead kept and one released; 177 bank rods with two adult chinook and seven steelhead kept plus two steelhead released; two boaters with seven legal and 17 sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Cowlitz River mouth, 33 boaters with five adult chinook and two steelhead kept. (WDFW)
Kalama, 76 boaters with four adult chinook kept; 297 bank rods with 16 adult chinook and seven steelhead kept plus three steelhead released; four boaters with 16 sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Woodland, 70 boaters with two adult chinook kept and two steelhead released; 115 bank rods with four adult chinook and one steelhead kept plus one steelhead released. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 82 boaters with 10 adult chinook kept and two jack chinook released; 51 bank rods with four adult chinook and one steelhead kept plus one steelhead released. (WDFW)
Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, four boaters and 10 bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Troutdale, Ore., 71 boaters with three adult chinook and one jack chinook kept; seven boaters with 10 walleye kept. (ODFW)
Camas-Washougal, 23 boaters with one steelhead released; six boaters with two walleye kept and three released. (WDFW)
North Bonneville, 43 bank rods with seven steelhead and one jack chinook kept plus six steelhead released. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge, 23 boaters with one jack chinook and four steelhead kept plus one steelhead released; 50 Oregon bank rods with one jack chinook and five steelhead kept plus four steelhead released. (ODFW)
Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, 18 boaters with two adult chinook and seven steelhead kept plus five steelhead released. (WDFW)
The Dalles pool, seven boaters with one chinook kept; 13 bank rods with no catch; nine boaters with one walleye kept; two bank rods with one walleye. (ODFW)
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Cowlitz — Sixty-nine boaters with two adult chinook, one jack chinook and 48 steelhead caught plus two adult chinook released; 70 bank rods with two adult chinook and five steelhead kept plus two adult chinook, two jack chinook and one steelhead released.
Most of the fish came from Mission Bar upstream although some were caught by boaters near the mouth.
North Fork Lewis — Nine bank rods with four steelhead kept. (WDFW)
Kalama — Sixteen bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Drano Lake — Nine bank rods with two steelhead released; 186 boaters with 22 adult chinook, four jack chinook and 71 steelhead kept plus one adult chinook and 52 steelhead released. (WDFW)
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