Fishing report

• Nearly 1.5 million salmon are expected to return to the Columbia River this fall.
• South Sound salmon fishing has been slow, but coho are sometimes biting near shore.
• The American Lake otter is still canceling out some anglers’ hard work.

RIVERS

CARBON: Anglers have been catching salmon (cohos and pinks).

COLUMBIA: A Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife sampling of 933 salmonid anglers last week below the Lewis showed a catch of 335 adult and 17 jack fall chinook, four adult coho, and nine steelhead. Anglers kept 310 (92.5 percent) of the adult Chinook. Anglers are doing well catching fall chinook at the mouth of the Klickitat. Anglers are catching some walleye below Bonneville Dam. Salmon season is open from Buoy 10 upstream to just above McNary Dam. An estimated 925,300 fall chinook and 539,600 coho are expected to return to the Columbia this fall.

COWLITZ: The WDFW reports anglers are catching a mix of fall chinook, coho, steelhead and cutthroat trout. Steelhead and cutthroat are biting near the trout hatchery. Coho are biting on the lower river. Chinook are being caught throughout the river, but the wild ones (about half at last count) must be released.

CISPUS: Last week Tacoma Power reports releasing 73 chinook adults near the mouth of Yellow Jacket Creek.

LEWIS: Bank anglers are catching coho and summer-run steelhead near the salmon hatchery according to the WDFW.

OLYMPIC COAST: The upper Bogachiel and Sol Duc are among the rivers that reopened last week.

TILTON: Tacoma Power last week released 403 fall chinook adults, 71 jacks, with 77 coho adults, 18 jacks and five cutthroat near Morton’s Gust Backstrom Park.

YAKIMA: Salmon fishing picked up on the lower river last week, according to Paul Hoffarth, a WDFW biologist.

SALT WATER

SOUTH SOUND: Salmon fishing has been quiet, according to the Point Defiance Boathouse Marina staff. However, they report some coho being caught near shore around Gig Harbor.

NORTH SOUND: Nearly 2,000 anglers combined to catch 851 fish during last week’s Everett Coho Derby despite less than ideal conditions Sunday, according to a Seattle Times report.

WESTPORT: Coho and tuna fishing have been good, according to the Westport Charterboat Association. On Monday, coho were biting 13 miles south of Westport at a depth of 20-40 feet.

LAKES

AMERICAN: Anglers are still catching fish, but that’s not the end of their work. David Anderson of Bill’s Boathouse says bring a bucket because the infamous otter that patrols the lake has been swiping fish. One angler lost four catches last week.

MAYFIELD: Anglers have been doing well trolling for trout.

MINERAL: No report of angling success, according to the WDFW. Sept. 30 is the last day of the season.

TANWAX: Trout fishing is still picking up, according to the staff at Rainbow Resort. PowerBait is recommended.

DRANO: Boat anglers are catching chinook and summer-run steelhead.

This story was originally published September 22, 2015 at 8:28 AM with the headline "Fishing report."