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Mark Yuasa covers fishing and outdoors in the Pacific Northwest.

March 11, 2013 at 5:24 PM

State Fish and Wildlife Southwest Washington fish checks

State Fish and Wildlife Southwest Washington river and lake fish checks:

Columbia River below Bonneville Dam – March 4-10: 212 bank anglers caught three steelhead and released one; 422 boats with 901 anglers caught 30 spring chinook and one steelhead, and released eight spring chinook; 28 bank anglers caught no sturgeon; 11 boats with 27 anglers released 14 sturgeon; one bank angler caught no walleye; three boats with three anglers caught one walleye.

Columbia River in The Dalles Pool – March 4-10: 22 bank anglers released four sturgeon; 14 boats with 35 anglers caught two sturgeon and released 35; seven bank anglers caught one steelhead and released one; 19 boats with 52 anglers caught 20 walleye and released one.

Columbia River in John Day Pool – March 4-10: 20 bank anglers released one sturgeon; 29 boats with 66 anglers caught eight sturgeon and released 34; six bank anglers caught no steelhead; 23 boats with 43 anglers caught six walleye and released 10; seven boats with 12 anglers released 10 bass.

Cowlitz River – March 4-10: 26 bank anglers released one steelhead, and six boat anglers caught no fish.

Kalama River – March 4-10: Four bank and three boat anglers caught no fish.  Closed for Chinook.

Washougal River – March 4-10: 29 bank anglers caught two hatchery steelhead and released three wild steelhead; 11 boat anglers caught three steelhead and released two hatchery steelhead and three wild steelhead.

Klineline Pond – March 9: 34 bank anglers caught one rainbow trout.

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A Seattle native, Mark Yuasa is a lifelong angler who grew up near the banks of Lake Washington and has been covering fishing and outdoors for more than 21 years for The Seattle Times. Read his regular fishing report every Thursday and the outdoor notebook every Sunday.
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