SALKUM — A little after 8 a.m. Friday morning at the Cowlitz River Salmon Hatchery, about 800 coho idle in a narrow concrete channel impatiently leaping at the stainless steel grate barring their ...

The river fishing has been improving, especially on waters such as the Cowlitz and Nisqually. The coho action off Westport is said to be well worth the trip, both for numbers and quality. Fly fishing: ...

Dec. 30—The Lower Columbia Fish Recovery Board (LCFRB) is partnering with Tacoma Power to fund recovery of salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act in the upper Cowlitz and Cispus ...

LEWIS COUNTY, Wash. – It's a good year to be in the salmon business. A record number of coho salmon have worked their way up the fish ladder at Tacoma Power's hatchery on the Cowlitz River near Salkum ...

Cowlitz River – In between the late stock coho and late winter run steelhead runs. 14 boat anglers with 1 steelhead kept. 90 bank anglers kept 1 steelhead and 1 adult and 1 jack coho and released 1 ...

He may be a professional salmon guide, but Billy Swann couldn’t land his fish story. Swann, 52, was caught clubbing and finning wild coho salmon caught on the Cowlitz River in southwestern Washington.

Cowlitz River – 2 boat anglers with no catch. 68 bank anglers with 11 adult and 1 jack coho and 1 steelhead kept and 2 adult coho, 1 cutthroat, and 1 chum released. Last week Tacoma Power employees ...

This week in Southwest Washington, we’ve had sunshine and cold weather in the forecast dropping the rivers quickly and turning them clearer and clearer by the day. Steelheading is slowing on the ...