Jan. 16—The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has announced a new tentative schedule approach for the Cowlitz River recreational smelt fishery. "This approach is designed to provide ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 8—Smelt dippers will return to the banks of the Cowlitz River as the Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife has ...

Mar. 12—Anglers from across the Pacific Northwest took to the banks of the Cowlitz River on Wednesday, March 12, for the opening of the state's brief smelt dipping season. All it took was a few empty ...

This week in Southwest Washington, we have water levels coming down and the Columbia clearing up, all while chinook numbers are increasing over Bonneville and into the tributaries. Tributary steelhead ...

LONGVIEW — This year’s Cowlitz River smelt dipping season went out a lot like it started: without much happening. The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife said Friday that no one caught ...

In 2015, over 25,000 spring chinook returned to the Cowlitz River in Southwest Washington. However, in 2020 and 2021, returns to the Cowlitz River were expected to be so poor that fisheries managers ...