Lacamas Lake has been planted with 7,000 catchable-size rainbow trout and Klineline Pond got 2,000 trout offering a couple of opportunities in what’s otherwise very meager fishing locally.
The East Fork of the Lewis River was flowing at 1,670 cubic feet per second on Wednesday and the North Fork at 13,200 cubic feet per second.
Ideal on the East Fork is 1,100 to 1,400 cfs, while prime in the winter on the North Fork is 5,000 to 6,000 cubic feet per second.
Streamflow in the Cowlitz is a high 18,600 cubic feet per second.
The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for today and Friday, so another weekend during the prime time for hatchery-origin winter steelhead is a goner.
Last weekend, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife checked 10 bank rods on the Cowlitz with one adult and three jack coho released.
Six winter steelhead were recovered at the Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery separator.
Swift Reservoir is open for fishing through Dec. 31, however PacifiCorp has closed Swift Forest Camp so it can remove acres of wood debris floating on the lake.
Merwin Reservoir is muddy and could take a month or more to clear enough for kokanee fishing.
Oregon sampled six boats in the John Day River backwater with five steelhead kept and nine released.
