Mallahan reports that the fish can be found throughout the Cowlitz River, in both the lower and upper reaches. He likes to fish the Interstate 5 area to start, as well as the Toledo area, but each ...

People dip for smelt at Gerhart Gardens Park in February 2024 along the Cowlitz River in Longview. The state opened a one-day, six-hour recreational fishery Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, for the first ...

Recycling of hatchery summer steelhead in the lower Cowlitz River presents minimal risk to wild fish in the system, a preliminary U.S. Geological Survey study says. “Intensive monitoring of the ...

The Cowlitz run is well known, and so are occasional runs in the North Fork Lewis River. However, when the fish appeared in other streams, they were thought to be strays from the mainstem Columbia.

COWLITZ: Good fishing for steelhead at Blue Creek. ... The Cowlitz River at Castle Rock has been running in the high 11,000-cubic-feet per second, which is normal for this time of the year.

The states are focusing on smelt in the Columbia River while the tribe, fittingly, is doing much of its work in the Cowlitz River. For decades, fish managers admitted that they didn't know much ...

They’re not smelt at all. They’re eulachon, and in the vernacular of way back when, they were “hooligans.” ...

The Cowlitz River is widely considered to be one of Western Washington’s major sport-fishing factories, and this time of year anglers have their choice of several overlapping species.

Mar. 6—Crowds from across the state gathered along the Cowlitz River on Tuesday afternoon for the second day of smelt-dipping approved by the Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife ...