I've talked to a key state guy and he says the Columbia will stay open through the end of the month. The stuff you might have heard about the commercials taking 4,000 too many was BS, he said. As for mark rates, the state checker at Bonneville checked 172 bank anglers there Monday and they had 48 marked springers and 24 unmarked ones. I've heard that mark rates down low around Cathlamet lately have been more like 55 or 60 percent marked.