Details about a sturgeon poaching are being sought after a witness told The Daily News this weekend that a man was fishing and keeping sturgeon out of the Cowlitz River on Saturday. Sturgeon ...

Catch and release fishing is open on all other days. The WDFW noted that enough fish remain on the harvest guideline of 675 sturgeon to ... A portion of the Cowlitz River will be open to ...

Since then fisheries have either been closed or extremely limited just like last year’s brief six-hour fishing period on Feb. 6 along the banks of the Cowlitz River in southwest Washington.

Anglers will be able to retain white sturgeon on the Columbia River from the Wauna powerlines upstream to Bonneville Dam (including the Cowlitz River ... first few days of fishing,” said ...

Adjacent Washington tributaries will also be open for sturgeon fishing those days ... Sturgeon retention will be allowed on the Cowlitz River on the same days for the fall fishery.

Something very fishy is happening on the Cowlitz River. The Cowlitz — a tributary ... On the saltwater salmon fishing scene south central Puget Sound from the north side of Vashon Island south ...

On the same call, the states adopted more retention fishing for legal-sized sturgeon ... crossing the Columbia River at Wauna upriver to Bonneville Dam, including the Cowlitz River.