Fly fishing is a good way to tackle cutthroat, but so is the use of spinning gear with spoons and spinners, and particularly, drifting nightcrawlers.

A fishermen in a fluorescent jacket (middle) sets the hook on a cutthroat trout near Blue Creek on the Cowlitz River on Saturday morning.

While most of sports fisherman were asleep, they pulled the rug out from under the Cowlitz River recreational steelhead fishery. “They” include American Rivers and Trout Unlimited, along with ...

River fishing has been best in places such as the Cowlitz and the Olympic Coast. The blackmouth fishing has been better to the north around Whidbey Island. Lake fishing is getting better each week.

Today we're going to talk about using spinners and tips on using spinners as we fish from shore for lake trout. If you want to get your own stingeye spinners, you can ...

Anglers can look forward to trout fishing in hundreds of lowland lakes throughout the state beginning Saturday and perhaps winning one of more than 800 trout derby prizes along with their catch.

For decades, the lower Cowlitz River reigned as king of winter steelhead fishing streams in Washington. It still does, but what once was an early winter fishery is now more of a say-hello-to ...

The Cowlitz River has been producing some winter steelhead and a few spring chinook. In the Lewis, the chinook run is just starting and a few have been caught, but overall fishing has been slow.

The research will look at how hook-and-release mortality varies by gear type (bait, lures, treble hooks, single barbless hooks), angling technique (gear and fly fishing) and water temperature.