November 14, 2005
Cowlitz Fish Report
During the past week, Tacoma Power and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife employees recovered 2,665 coho salmon adults, 365 coho jacks, 121 fall chinook adults, two jacks, 199 summer-run steelhead, 11 winter-run steelhead and 64 cutthroat trout during seven days of separator operations at Tacoma Power’s Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery.
Tacoma Power employees released 1,410 coho salmon adults and 181 jacks into the upper Cowlitz River at the Lake Scanewa Day Use site above Cowlitz Falls Dam during the week. They also released 260 coho adults and 43 jacks at the Franklin Bridge in Packwood, and they released 127 coho adults and 29 jacks into the Cispus River above the mouth of Yellowjacket Creek.
During the week Tacoma Power employees recycled 81 steelhead adults and ten cutthroat trout downstream to the Interstate-5 boat launch, and they recycled 407 summer steelhead adults and 58 cutthroat trout downstream to the Olequa boat launch.
Also during the week a total of 612 coho adults, 79 jacks and six cutthroat trout were released into the Tilton River at Gust Backstrom Park in Morton, Washington.
River flows at Mayfield Dam are 7,590 cubic feet per second (cfs) on Monday, November 14. Water visibility at Mayfield Dam is over four feet. Flows may change at any time so boaters and anglers should remain alert for this possibility.
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Current river flow information on the Cowlitz, Nisqually, Wynoochee and Green
rivers, plus lake levels for Riffe, Alder, Wynoochee and Cushman lakes, are
available on Tacoma Power’s Fishing Line, toll free at 1-888-502-8690