An angler shows off a big hatchery steelhead taken on the Cowlitz River. While hatchery winter steelhead are tough to forecast, the wild return of Columbia River winter steelhead is expected to be ...

Emily Fitzgerald, The Chronicle, Centralia, Wash. Sep. 30—Six males between the ages of 15 and 23 accused of breaking into the Cowlitz River Salmon Hatchery in Salkum on Sunday and snagging salmon out ...

A multi-year salmon and steelhead hooking mortality study began earlier in June in the lower Cowlitz River, research that state officials hope to use in managing sport fisheries throughout the ...

The fall salmon season is heading into its final weeks, with the late run of coho driving these last days. Anglers are doing well in some tributaries of the Columbia, but low water has slowed the bite ...

This week in Southwest Washington, we’ve had sunshine and cold weather in the forecast dropping the rivers quickly and turning them clearer and clearer by the day. Steelheading is slowing on the ...