Summer Salmon

[allen]

I sure miss fishing for summers.  I notice the count going over Bonneville is over two thousand a day, but I don't know how that compares to previous years.  Does anyone know how many they'd need before they'd give us a season?

[Fishmaker57]

The issue that complicates this is the Snake River Summer / Falls. This stock hasn't done well in recent years, so authorizing a fishery impacts those returns. Once above the confluence of the Snake, Summers are typically above escapement and can sustain a sports fishery. Same with Sockeye.....

[Blacklab]

Columbia River is open until 07/31. Wdfw hotline 360-696-6211

[Stein]

I'm hoping for a good chinook and sockeye season at Brewster, we have relatives on the river and it would be a great change from getting pounded by wind waves and rain on the Sound.

[huntnnw]

hopefully summer run opens in the upper Columbia.

[BigCutty3]

I thought the Colvillles highly touted Chief Joe Hatchery was supposed to be kicking in and producing fish for every year fisheries by now?

[Fishmaker57]

Chief Joseph Hatchery has been producing Summer Chinook since 2014, their first release year, so returns began showing up in 2018. 60% of the fish harvested in the Brewster pool that year, were returns from Chief Jo. Again, the issue with allowing a lower river fishery is the weak Snake River returns, not upper Columbia Summers. Above Priest Rapids Dam, you have 4 major hatcheries producing Summer Chinook; Eastbank, Entiat, Wells, and Chief Jo, all "for harvest" programs - 100% AD clipped.

[Caseyd]

I'm hoping for a good chinook and sockeye season at Brewster, we have relatives on the river and it would be a great change from getting pounded by wind waves and rain on the Sound.

Looking like it could be one   

[dilleytech]

Summer counts are currently trending with the 10 year average which gives e me hope of some seasons opening.

[hunthard]

I'm hoping for a good chinook and sockeye season at Brewster, we have relatives on the river and it would be a great change from getting pounded by wind waves and rain on the Sound.
    That makes two of us

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Chief Joseph Hatchery has been producing Summer Chinook since 2014, their first release year, so returns began showing up in 2018. 60% of the fish harvested in the Brewster pool that year, were returns from Chief Jo. Again, the issue with allowing a lower river fishery is the weak Snake River returns, not upper Columbia Summers. Above Priest Rapids Dam, you have 4 major hatcheries producing Summer Chinook; Eastbank, Entiat, Wells, and Chief Jo, all "for harvest" programs - 100% AD clipped.

Thanks for the info! Great stuff for sure!

[dilleytech]

They just opened back up my local summer chinook spot. But usually gets better in July. A big summer is my favorite Columbia salmon. Tied in quality to a springer but averaging much larger 😁

[huntnnw]

On Columbia? Just came out yesterday that all the way to wells dam projected opener mid July and Brewster mid August. Complete joke! 11,000 more fish this year over bonneville as this time last year. Can’t fix stupid

[dilleytech]

On Columbia? Just came out yesterday that all the way to wells dam projected opener mid July and Brewster mid August. Complete joke! 11,000 more fish this year over bonneville as this time last year. Can’t fix stupid

A Columbia trib, I don’t fish the mainstream for summers.

[shadowless_nite]

Plenty of sockeye are hitting the bank on the lower columbia this year. Typically we are hoping for a summer chinook or steelhead but so far most of the fish being caught from the bank have been sockeye with only  incidental chinook and steelhead.  It really sucks that they haven't given us a summer chinook season for 2 years now. All the sockeye we've landed have been caught off the bank plunkkng.