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Fishing report Aug. 9: Current & Upcoming Fishing

By Terry Otto, Columbian staff writer
Published: August 8, 2018, 10:58pm

The fall salmon season is open from Buoy 10 upstream to the Oregon/Washington Border above McNary Dam (see Sport Fishing Regulations Updates page for retention details). An estimated 375,500 fall Chinook and 213,600 coho are expected to return to the Columbia River this fall.

White sturgeon retention is closed from Buoy 10 upstream to the Oregon/Washington Border above McNary Dam, but remains an option for catch-and-release fishing. Anglers are reminded that the Bonneville Dam spawning sanctuary is still in effect through Aug. 31 (see special regulations for details).

Walleye angling is excellent in the John Day Pool.

Trout fishing in the high elevation lakes is good, lowland lakes poor.

Panfish and bass fishing continues to be good in area lakes and the Columbia River.

Salmon and steelhead

Buoy 10: Fishing for coho salmon is good in the ocean off the mouth of the Columbia, but Chinook fishing is still only fair both outside and in the Buoy 10 fishery itself.

Fishing guides Bill Monroe of Bill Monroe Outdoors, and Brandon Glass of Team Hook-Up guide service report good catches in the ocean.

“The ocean is fishing pretty good out there,” Glass said. He reports good numbers of coho, but most of them are still outside the Buoy 10 mark.

Bill Monroe Jr., is also getting good results out in the salt, but he says fishing for Chinook is still slow, both inside and out. However, it does look like the numbers are increasing. He expects better fishing for Chinook soon.

“It’s not crazy good out there,” Monroe said, “but they are picking up a couple Chinook.”

Tongue Point to Buoy 10 Boats: Weekend checking showed 130 Chinook and one coho kept, plus 22 Chinook and one coho released for 191 boats (631 anglers).

Elochoman River: 1 bank angler had no catch.

Cowlitz River to Interstate 5 Bridge downstream: 1 bank angler had no catch.

Above the Insterstate 5 Bridge: 26 bank rods kept 2 steelhead. 44 boats/127 rods released 1 chinook and kept 53 steelhead and released 2 steelhead.

Drano Lake: 5 boats/7 rods kept 1 chinook, 4 steelhead and released 5 steelhead. (WDFW)

Oregon report: On Saturday’s Oregon flight , 145 salmonid boats and 47 Oregon bank anglers were counted from Tongue Point to Bonneville Dam; and 397 Oregon boats at Buoy 10. Anglers at Buoy 10 averaged 0.80 Chinook and 0.01 coho caught per boat.

Boat anglers fishing in Troutdale averaged 0.10 steelhead caught per boat, while anglers fishing the Portland to St. Helens area averaged 0.50 steelhead caught per boat.

In the Goble to Beaver area, boat anglers averaged 0.07 Chinook and 0.14 steelhead caught per boat. Bank anglers fishing in the Gorge averaged 0.41 steelhead caught per angler.

Gorge Bank: Weekend checking showed five steelhead kept, plus nine steelhead released for 34 bank anglers.

Gorge Boats: Weekend checking showed no catch for five boats (11 anglers).

Troutdale Boats: Weekend checking showed one steelhead kept, plus one steelhead released for 20 boats (36 anglers).

Portland to St. Helens Boats: Weekend checking showed two steelhead kept for four boats (seven anglers).

Goble to Westport Boats: Weekend checking showed one adult Chinook kept, plus two steelhead released for 14 boats (41 anglers).(ODFW)

Sturgeon

No report

Warm water report

Panfish is good almost everywhere. Bass is really good at Lacamas and Swofford Lakes, and Walleye is good in the Columbia.(WDFW)

Walleye

Troutdale: Weekend checking showed one walleye kept, plus one walleye released for seven boats (15 anglers).

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Columbian staff writer