Fishing report for May 13

SALT WATER

South Sound: Puget Sound is closed indefinitely to recreational salmon fishing. The Point Defiance Boathouse Marina staff reports lingcod fishing is fair but pressure has been light this week.

Shrimp: The race to set pots starts at 7 a.m. Saturday. In the Tacoma area, the pots must be set before 3 p.m. South of the Narrows Bridges, shrimp season is scheduled for Saturday, Wednesday, May 21 and 31.

Razor clams: No coastal digs this weekend. The next dig is proposed for May 20-22 at Mocrocks and May 20-21 at Copalis.

LAKES

American: Rainbow were biting even before the lake was stocked again Monday. On Tuesday, David Anderson of Bill’s Boathouse recommended using orange Power Eggs.

Bradley: Recently stocked with 1,000 rainbow trout from the nearby Puyallup hatchery.

Black: The lake near Olympia has been stocked with more than 34,000 rainbow trout this spring and plans call for adding another 5,000 by the end of May. No Thurston County lake will be stocked with more fish this spring.

Hicks: Stocked Wednesday with more than 3,300 rainbow trout.

Long: More than 28,000 catchable trout have been released this spring in this Thurston County lake.

Mineral: Mineral Lake Resort reports anglers are doing quite well. A couple hit their limit using yellow and green Power Eggs. White Power Eggs have worked from the dock. White Power Eggs and worms were used by one angler to land a 3-pound, 10-ounce brown trout.

Rapjohn: Stocked Tuesday with 2,000 rainbow trout

Spanaway: Trout were biting at the southern end of the lake early in the week. Trolling and still fishing were both doing the trick.

Tanwax: The state added 1,500 catchable trout on Monday.

Chelan: Anton Jones of Darrell and Dad’s Guide Service recommends trout fishing Manson Bay and along Colyar Ledge. Between Fields and Rocky points, anglers are catching some kokanee but success is spotty, Jones said. At nearby Wapato Lake, rainbow trout fishing has been phenomenal, Jones said. He suggests dropping anchor and using Pautzke’s Fire Bait in American Wildfire on a slip sinker rig with a 30-inch leader.

RIVERS

Columbia: Spring chinook fishing reopened Friday-Sunday between the Tongue Point-Rocky Point line upriver to the Washington-Oregon state line. Boat anglers aren’t allowed to fish between Beacon Rock and Bonneville Dam. The John Day Pool has been good for sturgeon, walleye and bass.

Cowlitz: A recent WDFW report stated that spring chinook have been biting for bank anglers at the barrier dam and for boat anglers on the lower river.

Lewis: Steelhead fishing has been slow according to recent reports.

This story was originally published May 13, 2016 at 11:22 AM with the headline "Fishing report for May 13."