Fall Chinook Harvest Season Closed

Salmon fishing in Idaho will be over for the year when the fall Chinook harvest season on the Snake River ends Saturday, October 31. The season opened September 1 on the Snake River between Lewiston and Hells Canyon Dam. As of October 18, anglers had caught 105 marked adult and 514 jack fall Chinook in the Snake River, for a total of 619 fish. Hatchery-origin fish are marked with a clipped adipose fin. This year more than 15,000 adult fall Chinook and more than 40,000 jacks crossed Lower Granite Dam, most of them returning to the Snake River upstream of Lewiston. The adult return is lower that the pre-season forecast, but the jack return is the largest ever counted at Lower Granite Dam. The fall Chinook run in the Snake River was protected as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act in 1992.