Wow!!!! Have you guys been fishing the Columbia River? Not to be outdone by the big hoopla over all the coho, what about all the summer steelhead? Holy buckets! Currently these metal heads have run over 13,000 for the last four days, with a total approaching 200,000 hatchery and 74,000 wild for the month. Last year for the month of July there where only 74,000 hatchery and 33,000 wild for this month.
It looks as if there will be the largest summer steelhead run on file this year adn no press to go along with it. Last week according to the ODF&W estuary boats averages 1.33 fish/boat, and gorge boats averaged a unheard of 5.5 fish/boat! There are more summers over The Dallas Dam for this month than Bonniville last year at this time. The Columbia river tributaries should be red-hot!
But where is all the hoopla for the steelhead?

ty, the general steelhead count includes the wild count too. If you read above the counts line 2 will tell you. The duck

Well, the numbers I stated above where the wild and hatchery numbers that are siplayed seperately at the US Army of Corps of engineers site: https://www.nwp.usace.army.mil/op/fishdata/adultfishcounts.htm and the University of Washington site: http://www.cqs.washington.edu/index.html
The above mentioned totals are correct and they are not a combined total, I challenge someone to find a stronger run of steelhead recorded in the last 30 years on the Columbia. The Willamette River also had an incredible run that is just now surpassing a amazing 25,000 fish, with the South Santiam Hatchery recycling over 11,000 summers from the dam.

Ty, I've used both sites and this site is more current and informative http://www.fpc.org-currentdailey-7day.ytd_adults.html

so what two keepers and one released nate in an hour listen to the thriller.FISH ON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are the rivers around Chelan going to be
open for steelhead this year ?

I get it Tramp!
Ring My Bell will ya!
CHOMP! CHOMP!
See you Saturday!

GutZ