Summer chinook angling in the lower Columbia continues — not great, but not bad — plus steelhead and sockeye are adding to the catch.
The catch per unit of effort, including steelhead and sockeye, was fairly consistent between different areas of the river this week, although highest in the Cathlamet and Kalama stretches.
The Columbia River is 3.5 degrees cooler at this point in the summer than a year ago.
June 30 is the final day to fish for spring chinook in the Wind River upstream of Shipherd Falls. It also is the final day for two poles, barbed hooks and boat limits in both Wind River and Drano Lake.
Drano Lake will be open daily beginning July 1 and the bank-only restriction near the mouth will be lifted.
Goose Lake in the southern Gifford Pinchot National Forest has been stocked with an additional 2,500 rainbow trout, plus a 100 large rainbow. Battle Ground Lake was stocked with 250 large rainbow, while Kress Lake near Kalama got 2,500 big trout.
Angler checks from the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Tongue Point to Wauna power lines, 18 boaters with no salmon or steelhead. (ODFW)
• Downstream of Puget Island, 22 boaters with one steelhead kept and one adult chinook released; three bank rods with one steelhead kept. (WDFW)
• Cathlamet, 22 boaters with three adult chinook, three steelhead and two sockeye kept plus two adult chinook and two steelhead released; 14 bank rods with one adult chinook kept. (WDFW)
• Westport, Ore., to Portland, 317 boaters with 25 adult summer chinook, six jack chinook, 22 hatchery steelhead and 10 sockeye kept plus 16 adult summer chinook, one jack chinook, three steelhead and three sockeye released; 115 Oregon bank rods with five adult summer chinook, four steelhead and five sockeye kept plus one adult chinook, three jack chinook, one steelhead and three sockeye released. (ODFW)
• Longview, 164 boaters with 18 adult chinook and 10 steelhead kept plus 17 adult chinook and one steelhead released; 167 bank rods with 12 steelhead and one adult chinook kept; two boaters with nine legal and six sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
• Cowlitz River mouth, seven boaters with three steelhead kept. (WDFW)
•Kalama, 109 boaters with 21 adult chinook, one jack chinook and five steelhead kept plus one steelhead released; 145 bank rods with five adult chinook and one steelhead kept plus five adult chinook released; 14 boaters with nine legal snd 56 sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
• Woodland, 103 boaters with six adult chinook and five steelhead kept plus eight adult chinook and three steelhead released; 182 bank rods with 13 adult chinook, one steelhead and one sockeye kept plus 17 adult chinook released; five boaters with 25 legal sturgeon and 13 sublegals released; five boaters with 11 walleye kept. (WDFW)
• Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 147 boaters with 20 adult chinook, one jack chinook, three steelhead and three sockeye kept plus 15 adult chinook and one jack chinook released; 150 bank rods with seven adult chinook, one jack chinook, two steelhead and two sockeye kept plus 15 adult chinook, one jack chinook and three steelhead released. (WDFW)
• Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, 23 boaters with two steelhead and four sockeye kept plus one steelhead released; 59 bank rods with 12 sockeye kept. (WDFW)
• Troutdale, Ore., 126 boaters with six adult chinook kept plus six adult chinook released; three boaters with no walleye. (ODFW)
• Camas-Washougal, 13 boaters with one adult chinook kept; three bank rods with no catch; three boaters with no shad. (WDFW)
• Columbia Gorge (downstream of Bonneville Dam), 42 boaters with three adult chinook kept and eight adult chinook released; 13 boaters with 42 shad kept; 18 Oregon bank rods with one adult chinook kept and two released; seven bank rods with eight shad kept. (ODFW)
• North Bonneville, 19 boaters with one adult chinook, two jack chinook and a sockeye kept plus three adult chinook released; 57 bank rods with four adult chinook and one steelhead kept plus two adult chinook and one steelhead released; one boater with 20 shad kept; 263 bank rods with 505 shad kept. (WDFW)
Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, nine bank rods with with one adult summer chinook kept; 143 bank rods with two legal sturgeon kept and 54 sublegals released; 281 boaters with 52 legal sturgeon kept plus seven legal, 15 oversize and 589 sublegal sturgeon released; two boaters with two walleye kept. (WDFW)
• The Dalles pool, 11 boaters with 29 walleye kept and three released. (WDFW)
Cowlitz — Forty-eight bank rods with 15 adult and four jack spring chinook plus six summer steelhead kept; 15 boaters with two adult spring chinook and five summer steelhead kept. (WDFW)
