Cowlitz River Steelheading

Without a doubt the Cowlitz is the place to go if you are wanting to do a little spring steelhead fishing. We have had good reports coming from this SW Washington stream for the past few weeks. There are still good numbers of late winter run steelhead coming into the system as well a a few early summer runs. The winter fish have been a mixture of colored winter fish with still a few dollar bright fish mixed in. The summer runs of course are just little streamlined silver bullets. Though not numerous at the present time their numbers should just continue to build into the summer.

For both the boaters and the bank fishermen the Blue Creek /Clay Banks/Mission Bar areas have been the place to be.

There are some spring Chinook still being caught at the Barrier Dam as well as some steelhead.