Cowlitz River - From the I-5 Bridge downstream, 13 bank and 3 boat anglers had no catch. From the I-5 Bridge upstream, 42 bank anglers kept 1 and released 1 steelhead while 34 boat anglers kept 5 steelhead and 1 cutthroat and released one cutthroat. Steelhead kept were winter runs.
Last week, Tacoma Power recovered 1,215 coho salmon adults, 146 jacks, 198 winter-run steelhead, 118 cutthroat trout, ten summer-run steelhead, and one fall Chinook adult during seven days of operations at the Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery separator.
During this past week Tacoma Power employees transported a total of 630 coho adults, 40 jacks and six winter-run steelhead to Lake Scanewa above Cowlitz Falls Dam on the upper Cowlitz River, 106 coho adults, 12 jacks, one fall Chinook adult and six cutthroat trout into the Tilton River at Gust Backstom Park in Morton, 367 coho adults and 47 jacks into the upper Cowlitz River at the Skate Creek Bridge in Packwood, Washington, 28 coho adults and three jacks into the Cispus River above the mouth of Yellow Jacket Creek and recycled 221 sea-run cutthroat trout to the Interstate-5 boat launch.
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife employees and volunteers transported a total of 168 winter-run steelhead to Kress Lake near Kalama, Washington during the past week.
River flows at Mayfield Dam are approximately 5,460 cubic feet per second on Monday, December 8.
Blue Creek (tributary to Cowlitz River) - In the creek, 6 bank anglers kept 3 steelhead and 1 cutthroat and released one cutthroat. Steelhead were summer runs
