Fishing report 8/5.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Chinook fishing at Buoy 10 is off to its traditional slow start, with Washington checking 155 boaters on Sunday and Monday at the Chinook and Ilwaco ramps with just two chinook. No sampling was done on Tuesday.
There will be gillnetting in the Columbia River from the ocean to Beacon Rock tonight and Sunday night, plus on Tuesday night from the Pacific-Wahkiakum county line to Beacon Rock.
In the ocean, the catch average for the Columbia River ports was a poor four fish per five rods last week. Eighty-one percent of the catch was coho. Through Sunday, 23 percent of coho quota and 14 percent of the chinook guideline have been landed.
Steelhead fishing continues good in the lower Columbia, and has ramped up at Drano Lake, too. Columbia Gorge winds were high last weekend, but are forecast to be a bit better this weekend.
No salmon were in the weekly samping by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife of the Columbia upstream of Tongue Point to Bonneville Dam.
Kokanee fishing is good at Merwin and Yale reservoirs, but the fish are deep. Trollers are using 5-ounce sinkers and putting out 80 to 90 feet of line (50 to 55 pulls) to get to the fish.
Walleye fishing is gearing up, slowly, in the Washougal area.
Sturgeon retention is closed for the season downstream of the Wauna power lines and until Oct. 1 between the Wauna power lines and Bonneville Dam.
Angler checks from the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Lower Columbia — Megler-Astoria bridge to Cathlamet, 46 bank rods with 11 steelhead kept and two released; 23 boaters with three steelhead kept and one released. (WDFW)
Chinook to Knappton, seven bank rods with no sturgeon. (WDFW)
Knappton, Deep River ramps, 111 boaters with 28 legal sturgeon kept and 72 sublegals released. (WDFW)
Cathlamet, 180 bank rods with 38 steelhead kept and 13 released; 85 boaters with 39 steelhead kept and 13 released; five boaters with one legal sturgeon kept and one sublegal released. (WDFW)
Longview, 461 bank rods with 64 steelhead kept and 26 released; 206 boaters with 50 steelhead kept plus two chinook and 43 steelhead released; 66 boaters with three legal sturgeon kept plus one oversize and 38 sublegals released. (WDFW)
Longview to Portland, 153 boaters with 29 steelhead kept and 27 steelhead and one chinook released. (ODFW)
Cowlitz River mouth, five boaters with one steelhead released. (WDFW)
Kalama, 378 bank rods with 49 steelhead kept and 29 released; 51 boaters with five steelhead kept and six released; 25 boaters with three legal sturgeon kept plus two oversize and 89 sublegals released. (WDFW)
Woodland, 154 bank rods with 12 steelhead kept and 14 released; 16 boaters with one steelhead kept; 12 bank rods with one legal and seven sublegal sturgeon released. (WDFW)
Lewis River to Kelley Point, 241 bank rods with 61 steelhead kept and 33 released; 45 boaters with one chinook and 14 steelhead kept plus nine steelhead released; two bank rods with no sturgeon. (WDFW)
Davis Bar to Portland airport tower, four boaters with no salmon or steelhead. (WDFW)
Troutdale, 125 boaters with one fall chinook and six steelhead kept plus 10 steelhead released; 22 boaters with 13 walleye. (ODFW)
Camas-Washougal, 11 bank rods with no salmon or steelhead; 56 boaters with six steelhead kept and seven released; 10 boaters with six sublegal sturgeon released; four bank rods with no sturgeon; four boaters with four walleye kept. (WDFW)
North Bonneville, 190 bank rods with 62 steelhead and one jack chinook kept plus 49 steelhead released; 19 boaters with three steelhead kept and three released; seven boaters with one oversize and seven sublegal sturgeon released; five boaters with 10 walleye kept and four released. (WDFW)
Columbia Gorge (downstream of Bonneville Dam), 26 boaters with six steelhead kept and 12 released; 226 Oregon bank rods with 36 steelhead kept and 60 released. (ODFW)
Mid-Columbia — The Dalles pool, 66 bank rods with eight steelhead kept plus 35 steelhead and one chinook released; four boaters with no walleye. (WDFW)
John Day pool, 10 boaters with with two oversize and 10 sublegal sturgeon released; 45 boaters with 42 walleye kept and 12 released; three boaters with two bass kept. (WDFW)
Cowlitz — Twelve bank rods with no salmon or steelhead; 36 boaters with 10 steelhead kept. (WDFW)
Lewis — Two boaters with no salmon or steelhead. (WDFW)
Drano Lake — Fifty-nine boaters with 20 steelhead kept and 28 released. (WDFW)
White Salmon — Three boaters with four steelhead kept and two released. (WDFW)
Merwin Reservoir — Six trollers with 30 kokanee.
Yale Reservoir — Five trollers with 16 kokanee.
