Here are the weekly angler checks from the Washington and Oregon departments of Fish and Wildlife.
Note: The Columbia River is closing beginning Saturday to salmon and steelhead fishing from Buoy 10 upstream to the Highway 395 Bridge in Pasco.
The Cowlitz River at Mayfield Dam is a manageable 9,830 cubic feet per second, but the North Fork of the Lewis at Merwin Dam is a high 11,200 cubic feet per second.
Lower Columbia — Tongue Point to Portland, 54 boaters with four adult coho kept. (ODFW)
Longview, one boater and two bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Cowlitz River mouth, 16 boaters with two adult chinook and four adult coho kept plus one coho released. (WDFW)
Kalama, seven boaters with one adult chinook, one jack chinook and one adult coho kept plus three adult coho released; seven bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Warrior Rock to Kelley Point, 33 boaters with six adult chinook and 10 adult coho kept plus one jack chinook released; 17 bank rods with one adult chinook and one adult coho kept; three boaters with one oversize and one sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Troutdale, Ore., 85 boaters with nine adult chinook, one jack chinook, three adult coho and one steelhead kept plus one adult chinook released; two boaters with no walleye. (ODFW)
Camas-Washougal, 23 boaters with five adult chinook, one jack chinook and one adult coho kept plus one jack chinook released. (WDFW)
North Bonneville, six boaters with two adult chinook kept; 20 bank rods with one adult chinook and one adult coho kept. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge (downstream of Bonneville Dam), 50 boaters with 26 adult chinook and two jack chinook kept plus one adult chinook released; 12 Oregon bank rods with no catch. (ODFW)
Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, 142 boaters with 46 adult chinook, five jack chinook, 15 adult coho and two steelhead kept plus one steelhead released; 11 bank rods with three chinook kept. (ODFW)
The Dalles pool, five boaters and four bank rods with no catch; two boaters with four walleye kept and five released. (ODFW)
John Day pool, 63 boaters with two adult chinook, one adult coho and three steelhead kept plus one steelhead released; 50 boaters with 119 walleye kept and 205 released. (ODFW)
Cowlitz — Five boaters with five adult coho and kept plus three adult coho and three adult chinook released; 123 bank rods with two adult chinook, 11 steelhead, 33 adult coho and six jack coho kept; plus 18 adult chinook, one steelhead, 12 adult coho and 13 jack coho released. (WDFW)
North Fork Lewis — Eight boaters with five adult coho kept plus one adult chinook and one adult coho released; 102 bank rods with 27 adult coho and one adult chinook kept, two adult chinook, one jack chinook and four adult coho released. (WDFW)
East Fork Lewis — Three bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Kalama — Twenty-two bank rods with one coho kept plus one coho and one chinook released. (WDFW)
Drano Lake — Eight bank rods with one adult chinook kept; eight boaters with one adult chinook and two adult coho kept plus one steelhead released. (WDFW)
Klickitat — Thirteen bank rods with one jack coho kept. (WDFW)
Streamflow at Pitt was 1,390 cubic per second late on Wednesday, almost double the average of 732 cubic feet per second for the date.
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