Estuary Salmon

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Estuary Salmon fishing report for July 2008

Lower Columbia — Fort Canby, 35 private boaters with nine legal sturgeon kept and five sublegals released.

Ilwaco, 274 charter anglers with 251 legal sturgeon kept plus five legal sturgeon, 24 oversize and 267 sublegals released; 244 private boaters with 70 legal sturgeon kept plus three legal, eight oversize and 67 sublegals released.

Chinook Salmon, 379 private boaters with 118 legal sturgeon kept plus 11 legal, 19 oversize and 158 sublegals

released.

Steve Beattie catching a Salmon (above photo)

Chinook Salmon to Knappton, 86 bank rods with seven legal sturgeon kept plus two oversize and three sublegals released.

Knappton, Deep River ramps, 423 boaters with 213 legal sturgeon kept plus 23 legal, 28 oversize, two green and 376 sublegals released.

Estuary, seven boaters with five steelhead kept and three released; 19 bank rods with four steelhead kept.

Cathlamet, five boaters with four steelhead kept and one released; 34 bank rods with two steelhead kept plus one steelhead and one summer Chinook Salmon released; three boaters with no sturgeon.

Longview, 95 bank rods with 19 steelhead kept and 16 released; 53 boaters with five steelhead kept plus two steelhead and summer Chinook Salmon Chinook Salmon released; 13 bank rods with six sublegal sturgeon released; four boaters with 17 sublegal sturgeon released.

Kalama, 167 bank rods with 33 steelhead and one jack Chinook Salmon kept plus 12 steelhead released; eight boaters with five steelhead kept and seven released.

Woodland, 43 bank rods with three steelhead kept and two released; one boater with no catch.

Warrior Rock to Frenchmen’s Bar, 34 bank rods with two steelhead kept plus 10 steelhead and two summer Chinook Salmon released.

Camas-Washougal, three bank rods with no steelhead; 13 boaters with one steelhead kept and two summer Chinook Salmon released; four bank rods with no sturgeon; 14 boaters with one oversize and 25 sublegal sturgeon released; three boaters with five walleye kept.

North Bonneville, 65 bank rods with 12 steelhead kept and 15 released; 10 boaters with three steelhead kept and six released; four boaters with eight sublegal sturgeon released.

Cowlitz — Eleven bank rods with three steelhead kept; 76 boaters with 63 steelhead kept.

Lewis — Five boaters with one steelhead kept.

Drano Lake — Seventeen boaters with 18 steelhead kept and five released.

White Salmon — Thirteen bank rods with two steelhead kept; four boaters with six steelhead kept and two released.