Updated 1:32 after receiving info that the numbers were in kilometers not miles.

FISHING -- It's no wonder some salmon don't bite in certain stretches of the Columbia River: They don't have time.

Some adult spring and summer chinook detected at Bonneville Dam were detected at The Dalles Dam the very next day, a distance of 46 miles!

The information comes from recoveries of recent Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) tags implanted into salmon of hatchery origin, said Joe Hymer, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife salmon specialist in Vancouver. 

Hymer said more fish are swimming faster this year, perhaps because of lower flows.

Here's another observation from Hymer:

A Coleman National Fish Hatchery Chinook with a coded-wire tag (verified) was recovered in a fishery on the lower Columbia mainstem just downstream from Bonneville this week. 

The hatchery is located on a tributary to the Sacramento River in California.  Not only was the fish lost, it was also a fall Chinook.