The Columbia RiverDated October 31,11Salmon/Steelhead
Cowlitz River – Anglers at the barrier dam are catching fall chinook and coho while at the trout hatchery the catch is mostly steelhead and sea run cutthroats. Most of the fall chinook were released (wild or dark fish). The lower river has slowed.
Eight hatchery and 2 wild winter run steelhead had returned to the salmon hatchery as of October 26.
Kalama River - Bank anglers are catching coho and some fall chinook. The majority of the fall chinook were released (wild or dark fish) as were about a third of the coho.
Lewis River – Anglers on the mainstem and North Fork Lewis are catching some fall chinook and coho though nearly half the fish were released.
Klickitat – Bank and boat anglers on the lower river are catching some coho.
Lower Columbia below Bonneville Dam - Last week we sampled 70 salmonid anglers (including 10 boats) with 2 adult and 1 jack fall chinook, all of which were kept.
Today is the last day of the 2011 lower Columbia mainstem creel census program though some limited sturgeon creel checks will continue through the end of the year. The creel census program will resume in February 2012.
Bonneville Pool – Boat anglers averaged about ½ coho per rod.
Sturgeon
Lower Columbia mainstem from the Wauna power lines to Bonneville Dam - Boat anglers in the Camas/Washougal, Woodland, and Kalama areas were catching some legals. Overall, 84 boat anglers kept 7 legals. Bank angling was slow with 167 anglers and just 2 keepers.
Trout
Klineline Pond – 60 bank anglers had 18 nice looking brown trout. The fish were caught in the NW corner of the pond by anglers using biscuit dough suspended under a bobber. Dated 7/11/11  Some really nice large mouth bass caught by Dale McDaniel Dated 7/11/11
DATED 6/6/11 George and Ray with a few fish from the Columbia River.  George Foshee with a nice summer steelie off the Columbia River at Dibblies Point. Dated 6/6/11  George Foshee with a nice Jack Salmon from Dibblies point about 5 pounds. Dated 6/6/11  Ray Johnson with a nice summer steelie from Dibblies Point in Oregon . Dated 6/6/11 Dated 6/3/11  Big Ray with another fish from the Columbia River off Dibbles Beach in Oregon. A Chrome Chinook salmon about 17 pounds. Dated 5/27/11 The Columbia river is very high but fishing is happening their for spring salmon.  Ray Johnson with a nice Columbia River Steelie caught 5/25/11. Dated 5/5/11 Bonneville Dam passage of Chinook through May 3 totals 68,752 adult fish. Daily counts have dramatically increased, with the counts for the past three days accounting for nearly half the total passage. Based on the recent 5-year average, which includes four late-timed years, passage is typically about 35% complete by May 3 and the average 50% passage date is May 8. · The U.S. v Oregon Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) has been reviewing the status of the upriver spring Chinook run on a weekly basis. With the strong counts at Bonneville Dam in recent days, TAC is more optimistic about the run status now compared to one week ago. TAC has not updated the run size; TAC prefers to be closer to the 50% cumulative arrival date at Bonneville Dam before updating the run size.
Closing in on 40 pounds !!!!!!! Caught on the cowlitz April 21st, 2011. Thanks for the photo Sean thats one springer to be proud of . Dated 3/28/11  Jon Bates with a nice 25# springer from the Columbia River 3/28/11
Dated 3/27/11  George Foshee with a nice 23 pound springer from the Columbia River. Dated 3/26/11 The Columbia River has had a good number of winter steelies and spring salmon being caught the last few days. The Bank anglers at Ranier and off the Cowlitz have been catching a few fish.  Photo supplied by George Foshee Dated 3/26/11 Dated 12/20/10
 The mouth of the Cowlitz has been very busy for Chinook, Steelhead and Silvers as can be seen by this picture. Dated 8/31/10  Bob Brown with a nice Columbia River Sturgeon. Dated 4/7/10  Larry Short with an Atlantic Salmon from Nova Scotia . One of ten fish caught that day. Dated 3/20/10  Larry Short with a beautiful Blue Shark caught on the fly. Dated 3/20/10 Dated 8/15/09  Ed Rabinowe with a gorgeous summer steelie from the Columbia River. Dated 8/15/09 Dated 7/28/09  An over sized sturgeon caught and released by Bruce Marshall on The Columbia River. Dated 7/25/009  Bob Buchman with a golden bone fish caught on a fly from the Columbia River near Boardman Dated 7/8/09.  Walter Pistor with a nice Columbia River Sturgeon. Dated 7/8/09 Dated 7/3/09  A nice fish caught by Skyler Masters on 6/29/09 from the Columbia river just east of Longview, Washington.  Walter Pistor with a nice spring salmon from the Columbia River. 4/21/09  Larry Reynolds and friends after their Columbia River adventure this morning with some chrome spring chinook. Dated 4/16/09  Bob Buchman with a nice 24# Columbia River Springer.  Larry Reynolds first springer of the year from the Columbia River. 1/27/09 
Teresa Collins with a nice 32# Columbia River Chinook salmon. DATED 9/8/08  Salmon/Steelhead
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