Friday, July 30, 2010

Summer season for chinook ends Aug. 4

Fishing on the Boise continues through September

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A spawning chinook salmon swims in the Salmon River near Stanley. Photo by Mountain Express

     Chinook salmon anglers will have to hang up their rods at the end of legal fishing hours on Aug. 4, as the summer salmon season comes to an end.

     Chinook fishing on all waters of the Snake, Salmon and Clearwater rivers will end Wednesday, though it will continue on the Boise River through Sept. 30.

     Fishing will close because anglers are close to reaching the non-tribal share of the spring and summer salmon runs. In addition, spring and summer chinook are beginning to spawn and migrate to hatchery areas inaccessible to anglers.

     Ed Mitchell, public affairs officer for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, said that though some anglers have caught spawning fish, the fish are not particularly desirable either for sport or as table fare.

     Until the season closes, the daily limit remains at two chinook per angler, regardless of size, with a possession limit of six. The statewide limit for chinook is a total of 40 fish per angler over both seasons.

    Full chinook seasons and rules can be found at fishandgame.idaho.gov.

     Luckily, anglers still itching to catch a chinook won’t have long to wait—fishing for fall chinook salmon on the Snake River opens Sept. 1.

KatherineWutz:kwutz@mtexpress.com

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