Klineline Pond at Salmon Creek Park has been stocked with 2,000 rainbow trout to provide some holiday fishing.
Battle Ground Lake was stocked Tuesday with 68 adult winter steelhead from the Washougal River.
Horseshoe Lake in Woodland has been planted with 30 winter steelhead from Merwin Hatchery, while Kress Lake near Kalama got 18 steelhead from Kalama Falls Hatchery, a mix of winter and summer fish.
Sturgeon retention opens Sunday in the Bonneville, The Dalles and John Day pools of the Columbia River Gorge.
The daily limit is one fish. Size limits are 38 inches to 54 inches fork length in Bonneville pool and 43 inches to 54 inches fork length in The Dalles and John Day pools.
State officials will meet in early 2017 to adopt winter quotas.
Worth noting is the high temperature is forecast to be 35 degrees on Sunday and 26 degrees by Monday.
Streamflows on Wednesday were moderate levels of 5,940 cubic feet per second on the North Fork of the Lewis and 6,220 on the Cowlitz at Mayfield Dam.
The East Fork of the Lewis River was 958 cubic feet per second on Wednesday. Ideal for drift boat fishing in winter is 1,100 to 1,400 cubic feet per second.
The Washougal on Wednesday was a nice 1,380 cubic feet per second.
Angler checks from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife:
Cowlitz — Four boaters with one steelhead released; 41 bank rods with two coho kept. Six winter steelhead and 14 cutthroat trout returned during the week to Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery.
Coweeman — Twenty bank rods with two hatchery steelhead kept and one released.
Kalama — Seventy-five bank rods with six hatchery steelhead kept plus three wild steelhead released; 12 boaters with one hatchery steelhead, three wild steelhead and one hatchery coho released.
East Fork Lewis — Fifty-eight bank rods with two hatchery steelhead kept and four wild steelhead released.
