The action in area rivers seems to have slowed for those hoping to catch salmon. The best reports have come from the Green and Carbon rivers. The saltwater salmon fishing has been best in the North Sound. Lake anglers pursuing trout are having mixed success.

RIVERS

Carbon: Reports have been mixed. People are catching a mix of pinks and some silvers using corkies and yarn.

Columbia: Fishing has been slow overall, but the salmon fishing in the lower river was showing some improvement. Sturgeon fishing is very slow.

Cowlitz: Fishing has been fair to good. There are a lot of coho salmon throughout the system now, said Marshall Borsom of Fish Country. More than 4,800 fish returned to the hatchery last week. The challenge has been getting them to bite. Boat anglers are running divers with eggs, shrimp and/or coon shrimp, or side drifting and back bouncing eggs. Bank anglers are using eggs and shrimp together, corkies and yarn or spinners, he said.

Green: A lot of pinks are being caught in the Auburn stretch of the river. Most people are using corkies and yarn in orange, red and pink. A few coho are being caught as well.

Lewis: Anglers are catching a mixture of fall chinook and coho, said a state report.

Methow: The fishing remains good for both swinging a fly or using a nymph setup, said a report from Red’s Fly Shop. Flows are higher than normal, so be wary if you are wading.

Nisqually: The fishing has slowed a bit, but people are still catching coho and an occasional dark chinook.

Olympic Coast: The coho action has been good to very good, based on several reports. Anglers also are hooking some chinook and late summer-run steelhead.

Puyallup: The action has slowed quite a bit. The river was rising Tuesday; perhaps that will bring more fish upriver.

Skokomish: The river was in good shape over the weekend, but reports indicate the fish weren’t cooperating.

Tilton: Tacoma Power employees last week released 1,044 fall chinook adults, 33 jacks, 179 coho adults, 16 jacks and seven cutthroat trout into the river at Gus Backstrom Park in Morton.

LAKES

American: The lake is still producing limits of kokanee. An angler on Washingtonlakes.com reported catching his limit on the south side of the island. Try trolling with a corn-tipped spinner. The fish seem to be holding about 30 feet down.

Mayfield: The pressure has been very light.

Potholes: The bass fishing has been good to very good. Look for the largemouth in the dunes and the smallmouths off the face of the dam. Trout fishing has been fair.

Riffe: The fishing has dropped off in the last week or so, but the action should be picking up soon for silvers, Borsom said.

SALTWATER

North Sound: Catch rates seem to be down, but people are still catching a fair number of coho near Everett. The average was about one fish per two anglers, according to a state report.

Tacoma: The salmon fishing was very slow over the weekend and early this week. On the weekend, there were 27 anglers checked at Point Defiance, and they had only one coho.

Jeffrey P. Mayor, staff writer blog.thenewstribune.com/adventure