Spent a great day on the Columbia fishing for smallies. Not a ton of fish this year, but a little larger ones. Started out throwing tubes on 3/8 oz. jig heads in green and crawfish colors. Caught a few and the about 11:00 or so switched over to spinner-baits and crank-baits, and eventually settled in on crank-baits in craw-dad colors. A total of 47 to the boat between the 3 of us in 8 hours. Had an interesting incidental catch at about 1:00 in the afternoon, I hooked and got to the boat, then quickly netted to remove the hooks and released to watch swim away a 15# or so spring chinook. It pegged the guides scale at it's 12# limit so we figured 15-18 lb's. It took an orange diving crank-bait and took about 15 minutes to land on 8# test Maxima and a Ugly Sick Lite rod. Wish I could have kept it but the guide said it was not legal to keep even though it was a hatchery fish. What a thrill to hook, let alone get that fish to the boat.