The Columbia River is open to the retention of hatchery coho salmon and hatchery steelhead from Buoy 10 up to the Bonneville Dam. Only one steelhead may be retained as part of a two-fish limit. Chinook retention is closed.
Fishing for salmon or steelhead from Bonneville Dam to the Hwy. 395 Bridge in Pasco is closed for the year.
White sturgeon retention is closed from Buoy 10 at the mouth of the Columbia upstream to McNary Dam but remains an option for catch-and-release fishing.
Coho are available in local tributaries.
Holdover trout are available and biting in lowland lakes.
Walleye fishing has slowed considerably.
Salmon/Steelhead
The salmonid creel program on the lower Columbia has ended for the year and will resume in February.
Columbia River Tributaries
Grays River — Four bank anglers had no catch
Elochoman River — Two bank anglers had no catch.
Cowlitz River — I-5 Bridge downstream: 84 bank rods kept five coho and one coho jack; 42 boats/110 rods kept 28 coho, three coho jacks and released four Chinook and 42 coho.
Above the I-5 Bridge: 44 bank rods kept three coho and released 37 Chinook. Five boats/15 rods kept five coho, three coho jacks and released one Chinook and four coho.
Kalama River — 10 bank anglers had no catch.
Lewis River — 32 bank anglers kept one coho. 16 boats/43 rods kept four Chinook, two Chinook jacks, 10 coho, one coho jack and released five Chinook and three coho.
Klickitat below Fisher Hill Bridge — 39 bank anglers kept 15 Chinook, 13 coho, two coho jacks and released 15 Chinook and 11 coho.
Klickitat above No. 5 Fishway — one bank angler had no catch.
Walleye
Bonneville Pool — Weekly checking showed no catch for five boats (seven anglers).
The Dalles Pool — Weekly checking showed no catch for three bank anglers; and no catch for three boats (seven anglers).
John Day Pool — Weekly checking showed one walleye released for five boats (eight anglers).
