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Willamette Valley/Metro - The current minus tide series is dovetailing nicely with run timing for the upriver bright Chinook run on the lower Columbia River. Metro anglers are scoring excellent results from the mouth of the Sandy River to Longview using chrome and rainbow wobblers fishing near the shipping channel ledges. With a 5-foot leader and nearly as long of a dropper lead line, working the 35 to 52 foot depths, multiple opportunities are likely on the outgoing tides this upcoming week. The last part of the outgoing tide has been productive using Kwikfish to draw strikes reports pro guide Brandon McGavran (360-607-1327). Brandon has been one of the most consistent guides in this fishery. The limit remains one Chinook salmon per angler but fin-clipped steelhead or coho are also allowed but making up only a fraction of the catch. This will be the peak week for the lower Columbia River below Bonneville Dam.