Lacamas Lake has been stocked with almost 8,500 rainbow trout and Klineline Pond received more than 3,100 rainbow to provide winter opportunities.
Seventy-one winter steelhead returned to the Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery last week.
In the Cowlitz, anglers still are catching coho between the trout and salmon hatcheries, while steelhead fishing is best near the trout hatchery.
On Wednesday after, the Cowlitz River at Mayfield Dam was flowing at 14,200 cubic feet per second, compared to an average of 7,970 cubic feet per second for the date.
The North Fork of the Lewis at Ariel was flowing at 8,020 cubic feet per second, while average is 7,310.
The North Fork reopens beginning Tuesday from Colvin Creek upstream to the power lines downstream of Merwin Dam for chinook, hatchery coho and hatchery steelhead.
The East Fork of the Lewis River at Heisson was 1,370 cubic feet per second. Normal is 956 cubic feet per second.
The Washougal River at Hathaway Park was flowing 1,700 cubic feet per second on Wednesday.
Angler checks from the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Mid-Columbia — Klickitat River mouth, 15 boaters with seven adult coho kept. (WDFW)
John Day River mouth, 18 boats with nine steelhead kept and 19 released. (ODFW)
Cowlitz — Seventeen boaters with eight adult coho and 10 steelhead kept plus two steelhead released; 123 bank rods with 11 adult coho, one jack coho and six steelhead kept plus one steelhead, one adult chinook and one jack coho released. (WDFW)
North Fork Lewis — Fourteen boat rods with five adult chinook kept plus two adult chinook and one jack chinook released; 57 boat rods with one adult coho and one steelhead kept plus one adult chinook, two adult coho, one jack coho and one steelhead released. (WDFW)
Klickitat — Sixteen bank rods with 20 adult coho kept and seven jack coho released. (WDFW)
