Fall chinook catches are building and steelhead catches waning in the lower Columbia River, as is the norm as September arrives.
Buoy 10 remains open for hatchery coho. Sampling Monday at the Washington ports checked 161 rods with 21 coho. Sampling on Tuesday tallied 74 rods with 13 coho.
In the ocean, the fleet averaged a salmon per rod last week. Seventy percent of the coho quota for the Columbia River ports has been landed. One chinook a day is again allowed in the ocean bag limit.
Kokanee fishing is fair at Merwin Reservoir, but anglers will need to troll at depths of around 50 feet.
Angler checks from the Washington (WDFW) department of Fish and Wildlife and the Oregon (ODFW) department of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Estuary, six bank rods with one steelhead released. (WDFW)
Cathlamet, eight bank rods with one adult chinook kept. (WDFW)
Longview, 322 boaters with 67 adult chinook, two jack chinook and five steelhead kept plus one adult chinook, two adult coho and one steelhead released; 317 bank rods with six adult chinook and 13 steelhead kept plus seven steelhead released. (WDFW)
Longview to Portland, 604 boaters with 97 adult fall chinook, nine jack chinook and 13 steelhead kept plus one fall chinook, four coho and 18 steelhead released. (ODFW)
Cowlitz River mouth, 177 boaters with 35 adult chinook and 12 steelhead kept plus two adult chinook, one jack chinook and eight steelhead released. (WDFW)
Kalama, 377 boaters with 42 adult chinook, two jack chinook and two steelhead kept plus one adult chinook released; 249 bank rods with 24 adult chinook and seven steelhead kept plus one adult chinook and one steelhead released. (WDFW)
Woodland, 269 boaters with 40 adult chinook, two jack chinook and three steelhead kept plus one steelhead released; 171 bank rods with 11 adult chinook, one jack chinook and eight steelhead kept plus one jack coho and six steelhead released; one boater with two walleye kept. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 210 boaters with 13 adult chinook, one jack chinook and four steelhead kept plus five steelhead released; 146 bank rods with 13 adult chinook, two jack chinook and 11 steelhead kept plus three steelhead released. (WDFW)
Troutdale, 85 boaters with two fall chinook kept plus one steelhead released; 13 boaters with 18 walleye kept. (ODFW)
Camas-Washougal, 66 boaters with three adult chinook and one steelhead kept; 15 bank rods with one steelhead released; two boaters with seven walleye kept. (WDFW)
North Bonneville, 170 bank rods with four adult chinook, two jack chinook and 33 steelhead kept plus 19 steelhead released. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge (downstream of Bonneville Dam), 23 boaters with two adult chinook, one jack chinook and two steelhead kept plus one coho released; three boaters with seven walleye kept. (ODFW)
Mid-Columbia — Seven boaters with five adult chinook and two steelhead kept. (WDFW)
Cowlitz — Twenty-two bank rods with no salmon or steelhead; 41 boaters with six adult chinook, four jack chinook, one adult coho, 21 steelhead and three cutthroat trout kept plus eight steelhead released. (WDFW)
Lewis — Four bank rods and two boaters with no salmon or steelhead. (WDFW)
North Fork Lewis — Thirty bank rods with six steelhead kept. (WDFW)
Drano Lake — Sixty boaters with three adult chinook and 55 steelhead kept plus 22 steelhead, three adult chinook, one jack chinook and two adult coho released. (WDFW)
White Salmon — Eleven bank rods with one jack chinook and one adult coho released. (WDFW)
Merwin Reservoir — Two boaters with 10 kokanee.
