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Fishing report, 08/03

The Columbian
Published: August 3, 2017, 6:01am

No numbers were available on Wednesday from Tuesday’s Buoy 10 opener at the mouth of the Columbia River.

Catch reports by the Washington and Oregon departments of Fish and Wildlife for Buoy 10 will be posted online intermittently through the season.

The online address for Washington is http://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/creel/buoy10. The online address for Oregon is http://www.dfw.state.or.us/fish/OSCRP/CRM/sport_fishery_updates.asp

Salmon angling continues to improve off the southern Washington and north Oregon coast. Washington and Oregon report 2,908 anglers last week caught 3,358 coho and 501 chinook for an average of 1.33 salmon per rod.

Through Sunday, 36 percent of the coho coho and 25 percent of the chinook guideline had been landed for the ocean between Leadbetter Point in Washington and Cape Falcon in Oregon.

Northern pikeminnow catches in the sport reward program locally were best last week at Giles French Park near Rufus, Ore., with a catch average of 17.3 per angler. Runner-up was Beacon Rock State Park ramp at 14.2 and the Port of Camas-Washougal at 10.7 pikeminnow per trip.

Angler sampling by the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) department of Fish and Wildlife. Note: This sampling is from before the opening of the fall chinook season on Tuesday.

Lower Columbia — Astoria Bridge to Wauna power line, 22 boaters with three adult summer chinook kept and six adult chinook released. (ODFW)

• Downstream of Puget Island, 11 boaters with two steelhead released; 17 bank rods with one steelhead kept and one released. (WDFW)

• Cathlamet, 70 bank rods with two steelhead kept and two released; 44 boaters with one adult summer chinook and one steelhead kept plus four steelhead released. (WDFW)

• Westport, Ore., to Portland, 73 boaters with six adult summer chinook and six steelhead kept plus one adult chinook and two steelhead released; two boaters with one shad kept. (ODFW)

• Longview, 76 boaters with one jack summer chinook and 14 steelhead kept plus three steelhead released; 154 bank rods with four steelhead kept plus three steelhead and one adult summer chinook released; two bank rods with no sturgeon. (WDFW)

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• Cowlitz River mouth, 22 boaters with three steelhead kept and one adult summer chinook released. (WDFW)

• Kalama, 68 boaters with no salmon or steelhead; 152 bank rods with two adult summer chinook, one jack chinook and two steelhead kept plus six steelhead and four adult summer chinook released; 23 boaters with 18 legal and 55 sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)

• Woodland, 151 bank rods with four steelhead kept and six steelhead released; 56 boaters with three adult summer chinook and five steelhead kept plus one steelhead and four adult chinook released; nine boaters with 11 legal and 21 sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)

• Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 53 boaters with three steelhead kept and two adult summer chinook released; 58 bank rods with two steelhead kept and three released; three boaters with no sturgeon. (WDFW)

• Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, 42 bank rods with one steelhead kept and three released; two boaters with no catch. (WDFW)

• Troutdale, Ore., 75 boaters with two adult summer chinook, one jack chinook and one steelhead kept plus three adult chinook and two steelhead released; 20 boaters with 13 walleye kept. (ODFW)

• Camas-Washougal, 24 boaters with one adult summer chinook kept; nine boaters with three walleye released. (WDFW)

• North Bonneville, 41 bank rods with one adult summer chinook and three steelhead kept plus six steelhead and three adult chinook released. (WDFW)

• Columbia Gorge (downstream of Bonneville Dam), 35 boaters with four adult summer chinook and four steelhead kept plus four adult chinook and four steelhead released; 70 Oregon bank rods with four steelhead and one adult summer chinook kept plus 12 steelhead released; four boaters with six walleye kept. (ODFW)

Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, 10 bank rods with one steelhead released; three boaters with one sublegal and one oversize sturgeon released. (ODFW)

• The Dalles pool, three boaters with 19 walleye released; two boaters with 11 sublegal sturgeon released; two Oregon bank rods with two sublegal and one oversize sturgeon released. (ODFW)

• John Day pool, 54 boaters with 327 walleye kept and 176 walleye released. (ODFW)

Cowlitz — Downstream of Interstate 5, two boaters and one bank rod with no catch; upstream of I-5, 61 bank rods with seven adult spring chinook and two steelhead kept plus one adult spring chinook and one jack chinook released; 157 boaters with 48 steelhead kept plus one jack chinook and 10 cutthroat trout released. Three summer chum salmon returned in Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery last week. (WDFW)

Lewis — Two boaters with one steelhead kept. (WDFW)

Drano Lake — Twenty-two boaters with two adult chinook and six steelhead kept plus 13 steelhead and one adult chinook released. All steelhead must be released from Drano Lake in August and September. (WDFW)

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