Anglers will have one more weekend of Chinook salmon fishing in Idaho’s Upper Salmon River.

The section from the city of Salmon upstream to the Sawtooth Fish Hatchery weir will close at the end of fishing hours on July 26. It is the last part of the Salmon River to close to Chinook fishing.

Idaho Fish and Game made the announcement Tuesday afternoon.

Fishery managers for Fish and Game estimate that, by the end of fishing Sunday, anglers will have taken 100 percent of the state’s harvest share of adult hatchery Chinook salmon returning to the Sawtooth and Pahsimeroi hatcheries. The harvest is estimated by weekly angler surveys.

Overall for the season, Fish and Game estimates that the salmon fishery in the Salmon River drainage, which opened on June 20, will generate more than 60,000 angler hours of fishing and lead to the harvest of about 3,000 adult and 1,000 jack Chinook salmon.

A season remains open for Chinook in the Boise River until further notice.

I was up in the Stanley area last weekend and the river was packed with anglers at key locations like the Idaho 75 bridge downstream from the Sawtooth Fish Hatchery and near Redfish Lake Creek.

There were lots of anglers camped along the river in the section from Stanley upstream.