Bill McKee wrote:

I think they closed all of the Columbia to salmon fishing. So area 10 is
out. Too many fur bags. They are now eating the sturgeon


A sea lion took a spring chinook away from my wife a few weeks ago on
Multnomah channel. I broke it off without giving chase but then
wondered if I could have harassed it into letting go. That notion was
dispelled the next week after watching a boat chase one around for about
20 minutes. The damn thing still got away with his fish.

The Columbia spring chinook run is coming in under 30% of expected but
the Willamette run is about as predicted. One major difference is the
series of dams on the Columbia. When these fish migrated out in '02 we
had low flows and they held back water for power generation. Fish need
rivers to flow.

-rick-

ps. I think you mean bouy 10 (at the Columbia mouth).