Battle Ground Lake was stocked with 3,000 rainbow trout last week, while Klineline Pond at Salmon Creek Park got 2,200 rainbow.
Streamflows in Southwest Washington steelhead fishing waters all were on the rapid rise on Wednesday, as anticipated, except those regulated by dams.
The East Fork Lewis River jumped from 350 cubic feet per second to more than 3,100 cfs at Heisson between late Tuesday and mid-day Wednesday. The Washougal at Hathaway Park went from 467 cfs to 2,000 in the same time frame.
Flow on the Cowlitz River was a moderate 6,190, cubic feet per second. However, the Cowlitz’s winter steelhead don’t return in good numbers until March.
On the North Fork of the Lewis downstream of Merwin Dam, the flow was a low 2,100 cfs on Wednesday.
Angler sampling from the Washington (WDFW) and Oregon (ODFW) departments of Fish and Wildlife:
Cowlitz — Nine bank rods with no catch. No boaters sampled. (WDFW)
Four winter steelhead returned to Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery last week.
Coweeman — Three bank rods with no catch. (WDFW)
Kalama — Nine boaters with no catch; 102 bank rods with five hatchery steelhead kept and six wild steelhead released. (WDFW)
East Fork Lewis — Fifty-six bank rods with one hatchery steelhead kept and three wild steelhead released. (WDFW)
Mid-Columbia — Bonneville pool, two bank rods and five boaters with no sturgeon. (WDFW) Forty-three boaters with one legal sturgeon kept plus two oversize and 64 sublegals released; six bank rods with three sublegals released. (ODFW)
• The Dalles pool, four boaters with one oversize and one sublegal sturgeon released; 19 bank rods with three sublegal sturgeon released. (ODFW)
• John Day pool, 10 bank rods with no sturgeon; one bank rod with no bass. (WDFW) Five boaters with six walleye kept. (ODFW)
