Sooner or later, fall chinook catches in the lower Columbia will plummet as the run draws to a close, but through last weekend angling remained strong from Woodland upstream.
Boaters upstream from Woodland averaged a chinook per two rods last week.
Coho are a no-show. Returns of adult coho to lower Columbia hatcheries are 7 percent of the numbers seen at this time in 2014. Coho jack returns are 54 percent of those from a year ago at this date.
Angling effort remains heavy at the mouth of the Klickitat River with 65 boats on Saturday and 55 boats on Sunday.
Angler sampling by the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Tongue Point to Portland, 128 boaters with 21 adult fall chinook, one jack chinook, four adult coho, one jack coho and one steelhead kept plus one steelhead and three coho released. (ODFW)
Longview, 13 boaters with no salmon or steelhead; 10 bank rods with one adult coho released. (WDFW)
Cowlitz River mouth, 22 boaters with five adult chinook, two adult coho and a jack coho kept plus two adult coho released. (WDFW)
Kalama, 45 boaters with three adult chinook and three adult coho kept plus one adult chinook, one jack chinook and two adult coho released; 125 bank rods with 18 adult chinook, one jack chinook and three adult coho kept plus one adult chinook and one adult coho released. (WDFW)
Woodland, 22 boaters with 14 adult chinook kept; 16 bank rods with four adult chinook kept. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 163 boaters with 85 adult chinook, six jack chinook and five adult coho kept plus three adult chinook released; nine bank rods with one adult chinook kept; three boaters with six walleye kept. (WDFW)
Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, three boaters and four bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Troutdale, Ore., 139 boaters with 26 adult fall chinook and three jack chinook kept along with one adult chinook and one adult coho released; three boaters with nine walleye released. (ODFW)
Camas-Washougal, 54 boaters with 27 adult chinook, four jack chinook, one adult coho and one jack coho kept plus one adult chinook released. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge (downstream of Bonneville Dam), 103 boaters with 79 adult fall chinook, six jack chinook, two adult coho and two steelhead kept plus two adult chinook and one adult coho released; 42 Oregon bank rods with five adult and one jack chinook kept plus one adult coho released. (ODFW)
North Bonneville, two boaters with one adult chinook kept; 78 bank rods with 20 adult chinook and four jack chinook kept plus one adult chinook and one adult coho released.
Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, 39 boaters with 23 adult chinook and one jack released plus two sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
John Day pool, 32 boats with three steelhead and two chinook kept plus five steelhead released. (ODFW)
Cowlitz — Ninety-three boaters with 11 adult chinook, 16 adult coho, two jack coho and one steelhead kept plus 19 adult chinook and seven adult coho released; 221 bank rods with 20 adult chinook, one jack chinook, two adult coho, two jack coho and 14 steelhead kept plus 46 adult chinook, three jack chinook, three adult coho, one jack coho, two steelhead and one cutthroat trout released. (WDFW)
Kalama —Thirty-three bank rods with one adult chinook and one adult coho kept plus three adult chinook, one jack chinook and four steelhead released. (WDFW)
East Fork Lewis — Four bank rods with no steelhead. (WDFW)
Washougal — Sixteen bank rods with no steelhead. (WDFW)
Drano Lake — Five boaters with three adult chinook kept. (WDFW)
