Hatchery steelhead fishing will be open on the Columbia River mainstem from Buoy 10 to the Highway 395 Bridge at Pasco from Friday to the end of the year.  While this year’s improved return of approximately 170,000 A-/B-Index summer steelhead passing Bonneville is still below historic averages, it is an improvement over the very low returns since 2016.  Based on in-season information, fishery managers were comfortable providing harvest opportunity for hatchery summer steelhead in November and December above The Dalles Dam.  The daily adult bag limit in all areas of the mainstem during November and December is two salmon/steelhead, but no more than one may be a Chinook.  Any wild coho caught downstream of the Hood River Bridge must be released.  With the improved summer steelhead return, the John Day arm closure is also lifted as of Friday, reopening steelhead fishing from the mainline railroad bridge at the mouth upstream to a marker ¼ mile downstream of Tumwater Falls.