The Cowlitz River is widely considered to be one of Western Washington’s major sport ... If you’re lightly rigged for trout fishing, you could easily hook a 10-pound coho or 15-pound ...

For decades, the lower Cowlitz River reigned as king of winter steelhead fishing streams in Washington. It still does, but what once was an early winter fishery is now more of a say-hello-to ...

River fishing has been best in places such as the Cowlitz and the Olympic Coast. The blackmouth fishing has been better to the north around Whidbey Island. Lake fishing is getting better each week.

Dozens of Eastern Washington lakes open today for the early trout fishing season, and depending on the weather — warm one day and ...

Anglers can look forward to trout fishing in hundreds of lowland lakes throughout the state beginning Saturday and perhaps winning one of more ... Cowlitz River I-5 Bridge downstream — 25 bank ...

COWLITZ: Bank anglers are catching fall chinook at the barrier dam and steelhead near the trout hatchery. Boat anglers are catching chinook and coho from Castle Rock downstream to the river mouth.

Each year the Cowlitz River Trout Hatchery releases around 90,000 more juvenile cutthroats so that they can make their run to the ocean. But that’s not the end of the good news.

Trout fishing keeps getting better and better as local lakes continue to get stocked. I stopped by Lacamas on April 13, and several anglers had lines in the water along Leadbetter Road. Several ...

The recent unusually warm weather should increase trout-fishing activity in open lakes on both sides of the Cascades. Despite the presence of hungry birds on many lakes, Puget Sound region ...

While most of sports fisherman were asleep, they pulled the rug out from under the Cowlitz River recreational steelhead fishery. “They” include American Rivers and Trout Unlimited, along with ...