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It's Official: Steelheaders Set Catch Record on Lower Columbia by Rich Landers Spokesman Review, August 19, 2011

FISHING -- Record and near record steelhead catches from the Lower Columbia mainstem sport fishery last month have just been reported by Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife:

New record steelhead harvest for the month of July. An estimated 8,549 steelhead were kept last month. The old record was 8,200 steelhead taken home in 2009.

Last month's 15,897 total steelhead handled (kept and released) missed the record by just 37 fish (15,934 in 2009).

AUGUST 17 reporting

FISHING -- Anglers on the lower Columbia records are setting records with the number of steelhead they're catching on the lower Columbia, according to a detailed report by Northwest Sportsman.

It's not clear whether that's a good omen or a bad one for upstream anglers waiting for those fish to head up the Snake and arrive above Lower Granite Dam. But I can tell you that anglers are catching steelhead in the Clearwater. Game on.