Sounds like you were one of the lucky ones. Check out these creel census stats posted in the Seattle paper:

Lower Columbia River — Last week, 136 bank anglers caught no salmon or steelhead; 153 boats with 305 anglers caught nine chinook, and released two chinook and one steelhead
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"If you don't kill them, they will spawn." (Carcassman)


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