SW Washington fishing update

The Cowlitz River continues to boot out fantastic catches of steelhead for boaters and spring Chinook fishing is good too. It may not be 25,000 returning adults good however. This writer is starting to speculate that the prediction of springers to the mouth may have been over-estimated. Bank anglers are doing well too, with both steelhead and springers hitting the bank.

There are some fish coming from the Kalama and pressure is much lighter here than on the Cowlitz.

The Wind and Drano Lake fisheries are under-performing, not unexpected given passage over Bonneville Dam. We should start to see numbers climb to 1,000 to 2,000 adults per day if this prediction is going to come through.

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