SW Washington fishing report

SW Washington – The Cowlitz River is a district highlight with both bank and boat anglers catching fair numbers of steelhead in the primed system. Effort and catch is highest around the trout hatchery.

As for spring chinook, they are a rare catch in SW Washington streams. The Cowlitz and Lewis systems are seeing a few however.

Boaters are anxiously waiting for salmon numbers at Bonneville to improve to stimulate catches at Drano Lake and Wind River. Effort is low and so it the catch. Fishing will improve here in early May, assuming passage at Bonneville begins to ramp up.