Flows below Merwin Dam were expected to be 5,000 cfs today. Klickitat River - Adult Coho are being caught. Bonneville Pool - Boat anglers at the mouth of the Klickitat River continue to catch adult Coho. John Day Pool - Anglers are catching some hatchery steelhead. Sturgeon Lower Columbia below Bonneville Dam - Anglers are catching some legals just downstream from Bonneville Dam.
Water level is low.
No in-sample catches were observed last week. An organization dedicated to passing an initiative to ban all commercial fishing nets from Washing State waters. There is ample data which will convince you that commercial drift net fishing, and bottom dragging are harmful environmental practices and should be unlawful in the State of Washington. Habitat has become the whipping boy and focus of all salmon recovery. There is little doubt that habitat is a problem.