On the lower Columbia River from Rocky Point/Tongue Point line upstream to Bonneville Dam there was no flight count available.

Dozens of fishermen from Oregon and Washington test their luck during a one-day chance for smelt dipping on the Cowlitz River on Tuesday afternoon. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian) Smelt dipping will ...

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-spring ...

Mar. 8—Smelt dippers will return to the banks of the Cowlitz River as the Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife has approved recreational fisheries for Wednesday, March 12, and Saturday, ...

The Cowlitz River was slightly deeper in 2013 than it was in 2012, and cities along the river are a tad safer because of that. The finding by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers also may hint that the ...

Thousands of Northwesterners were disappointed when they failed to meet up with some hooligans in March. These hooligans don’t make much trouble, except when they don’t show up. They’re a species of ...