Thursday, Sep. 25, 2008

Chinook seasons set on Snake, Columbia rivers

From Herald news services

For the first time in more than 20 years, anglers will be allowed to catch and keep fall chinook from the Snake River in Washington, starting today.

The catch limit also was increased for fall chinook in the season that opens today along the Columbia River between Washington and Oregon from the mouth of the Lewis River north of Vancouver about 60 miles eastward to Bonneville Dam.

The daily limit is one adult hatchery chinook at least 2 feet long and two hatchery jacks of 10 inches to 2 feet.

In the lower Columbia, the limit was raised to allow two adult chinook within a total of six salmon.