Monthly Archives: August 2011
Buoy 10 update 8/26
Thursday’s sampling from the Washington ports: 126 private boaters with 33 chinook and 15 coho; 13 charters boaters with five chinook and one coho. Monday is the final day of chinook retention.
Buoy 10 update 8/25
Washington creel sampling for WEdnesday: 85 rods with 35 chinook and 11 coho. Note: Chinook catches were excellent on Wednesday and Thursday just upstream of the Astoria Bridge on the Washington side.
Buoy 10 update 8/20
Thursday’s creel check from the Washington side was 42 boaters with 16 chinook and two coho. There are no numbers yet from Friday, but the fleet of boats in Blind Channel was huge and the bite was very good. It was as fast a chinook bite as I’ve ever seen at Buy 10. There was […]
Buoy 10 update 8/18
Here are the creel sampling results from Wednesday: Oregon, 291 anglers with 70 chinook, 15 coho. Washington 146 anglers with 27 chinook, 6 coho. I’ll be fishing at Buoy 10 on Friday, Sunday and part of next week and will try to update whenever I can get to a computer.
Buoy 10 update 8/17
Tuesday sampling from the Washington ports at Buoy 10: 115 anglers with 28 chinook and 6 coho. Buoy 10 numbers for Aug. 1-14: 4,711 trips with 662 chinook kept, 22 chinook released and 41 coho kept.
Columbia steelhead catch sets record 8/16
Anglers have caught a record number of summer steelhead this month in lower Columbia River with two weeks still remaining. Through Sunday, 11,639 steelhead had been handled (kept or released) between Bonneville Dam and the ocean. That tops 11,049 in August of 2009, said Joe Hymer of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. He […]
Buoy 10 8/16 update
Here are Monday’s Washington and Oregon creel summaries from Buoy 10: Oregon: 132 anglers with 40 chinook and two coho; Washington 36 boaters with one coho. Oregon biologists report the catch on their side of the river in the first two weeks of August was mostly bright chinook headed for the net pens in Youngs […]
Buoy 10 update 8/15
Chinook catches are improving slowly with almost a fish per every other boat on Sunday. A few more coho also are showing. Oregon’s creel estimate for Sunday was 456 boaters with 71 chinook and seven coho.