The Cowlitz River is widely considered to be one of Western Washington’s ... The Cowlitz Trout Hatchery collected nearly 2,000 ... will take a wide range of bait and lures ...

Each year the Cowlitz River Trout Hatchery releases around 90,000 more juvenile cutthroats so that they can make their run to the ocean. But that’s not the end of the good news.

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.

The 2007 Southwest Washington trout plants can be found on the Department of Fish and Wildlife's web site www.wdfw.wa.gov. Long Lake Park waters will open April 21 for a one-day youth fishing event.

But it’s a new world on the Cowlitz River today. Through 2011, the Cowlitz was stocked with about 300,000 early-returning winter steelhead smolts, 350,000 late-returning winter smolts and ...