HOME VALLEY — Spring chinook salmon fishing restrictions in the Wind River in Skamania County were announced Friday by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
The restrictions include:
o Fishing will open April 1, two weeks later than the traditional March 15 start.
o The daily limit will be one hatchery chinook or hatchery steelhead, not two.
o Angling will be allowed from boundary markers at the mouth to 400 feet downstream of Shipherd Falls. No fishing in the upper Wind is anticipated this spring.
o Anglers will be limited to one rod. Two rods were allowed in May and June in 2012.
The expanded fishing area initiated in 2012 when the boundary markers were moved a bit south will continue. Monitoring in 2012 show no significant increase of catch of upper Columbia or Snake River salmon. Intensive monitoring is planned again in 2013.
