Anglers in Southwest Washington have lots of choices this weekend, although none of them appear to be particularly hot.
The lower Columbia will be open Friday through Sunday again.
Last weekend’s three-day opener included 8,392 anglers trips with 399 chinook kept, 295 chinook released, 116 steelhead kept and 18 steelhead released.
Biologist John North of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said the catch was under expectations and thought the poor weather likely contributed.
The best catch-per-rod for boaters came in the area between the eastern tip of Reed Island and Beacon Rock, although only 24 percent of the chinook there were kept. The next best catch rate came in the Columbia River estuary, but the numbers include summer steelhead.
The Columbia from Rocky Point-Tongue Point upstream to Interstate 5 is open daily for hatchery steelhead and hatchery jack chinook.
Shad fishing also is open from Buoy 10 upstream to Bonneville Dam.
Spring chinook fishing was tough last weekend at Wind River due to the strong east winds. Drano Lake was good initially, but has slowed.
The catch rate for boaters in the Willamette River downstream of the St. Johns Bridge plus in Multnomah Channel was a chinook per eight rods.
Kidney Lake at North Bonneville was stocked recently with 2,100 rainbow trout. Spearfish Lake in Klickitat County got 1,500 trout.
Bass and walleye fishing has been fair to good in The Dalles and John Day pools.
Angler checks from the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Tongue Point to Wauna power lines, 46 boaters with two spring chinook and three steelhead kept plus one chinook released. (ODFW)
Downstream of Puget Island, 93 boaters with eight adult spring chinook and two jack chinook kept plus two adult chinook released; five bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Cathlamet, 31 boaters with two steelhead kept and one released; 29 bank rods with one spring chinook kept. (WDFW)
Westport, Ore. to Portland, 622 boaters with 26 adult spring chinook and five jack chinook kept plus 16 adult chinook and three jack chinook released. (ODFW)
Longview, 209 boaters with six adult spring chinook, three jack chinook and five steelhead kept plus one adult chinook released; 73 bank rods with five steelhead kept; two boaters with nine legal, four oversize and 25 sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Cowlitz River mouth, 12 boaters with six steelhead kept and one released. (WDFW)
Kalama, 161 boaters with five adult spring chinook, three jack chinook, four steelhead and five shad kept plus five adult chinook and one steelhead released; 56 bank rods with no catch; three boaters with 10 legal sturgeon released(WDFW)
Woodland, 74 boaters with one adult chinook and one jack chinook kept plus four adult chinook released; 41 bank rods with two steelhead and one jack chinook kept; six boaters with 47 shad kept and 10 released. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 131 boaters with five adult chinook and two jacks kept plus four adult chinook released; 31 bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, 151 boaters with five adult spring chinook and four jacks kept plus seven adult chinook, two jack and a shad released. (WDFW)
Troutdale, Ore., 190 boaters with five adult spring chinook and one jack kept plus six adult chinook and a jack released. (ODFW)
Camas-Washougal, 96 boaters with two adult chinook kept plus three adult chinook and a jack released. (WDFW)
North Bonneville, 25 boaters with two adult chinook and two jacks kept plus three adult chinook released; 371 bank rods with 43 adult chinook, 29 jack chinook and one steelhead kept plus 26 adult chinook and two jacks released; 13 bank rods with nine shad kept. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge (downstream of Beacon Rock), 89 boaters with three adult spring chinook and three jack chinook kept plus 13 adult chinook released. (ODFW)
Columbia Gorge, 84 Oregon bank rods with 11 adult spring chinook, four jack chinook and one steelhead kept plus four adult chinook released; 24 shad rods with 223 shad kept. (ODFW)
Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, 18 bank rods with three hatchery spring chinook kept and five wild chinook released; two boaters with five walleye kept. (WDFW)
The Dalles pool, 35 bank rods with three spring chinook kept and one released; 75 boaters with 21 spring chinook kept and six wild chinook released; 13 boaters with 14 walleye kept; eight boaters with 19 bass kept and 47 released. (WDFW)
John Day pool, 26 bank rods with three spring chinook kept; 37 boaters with seven spring chinook kept, one chinook released and one steelhead released; 94 boaters with 168 walleye kept and 198 released; 54 boaters with 117 bass kept and 564 released. (WDFW)
Cowlitz — Eighty-eight boaters with 33 adult spring chinook, six jack chinook and two steelhead kept plus one adult chinook and 22 sturgeon released. (WDFW)
East Fork Lewis — Six bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Kalama — Thirty-six boaters with three adult spring chinook kept; 175 bank rods with seven adult chinook and three steelhead kept. (WDFW)
Wind — At the mouth, 101 boaters with eight adult spring chinook and three jacks kept plus one chinook released. (WDFW)
Drano Lake — Three-hundred-one boaters with 82 adult spring chinook and three jacks kept; 16 bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Klickitat — Forty bank rods with nine adult spring chinook. four jacks and two steelhead kept plus two adult chinook released. (WDFW)
Yale Reservoir — Two boaters with 12 kokanee and two trout kept, plus four trout released. The kokanee are about 9.5 to 10.5 inches.
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