Fishing Lake/Stream
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Drove up to the East Fork Lewis yesterday. River is in good shape and saw 5 anglers, one of whom said he heard there were fish being taken there. It's north of Vancouver but you have a resident license and tag which will keep you from having to spend roughly $150 for non resident license and tag in Oregon. Which I seem to do every year. Good luck. By the way the east fork and the Washougal close on the 15 of March every year. As the soothsayer said to Caesar, beware the Ides of March.
Divad
Whitefish
It’s going to be a cold end of Feb/Mar so I’d go with stocked lakes over trying some of the harder stillwater. And the ones along the way to Portland stocked with steelhead are a blast: Fort Borst (no boats allowed, can walk around it and backcast fairly easily) and Kress Lake are both stocked with steelhead Jan-Mar.
Aside from those your stillwater will be more of a struggle for fly fishing until we get warmer weather.
You could swing the Cowlitz and get ready to call someone XYZ expletives, EFL gets hit kind of hard along with SFT but they have good access, Kalama (nymph water with a couple swing spots down low by the park). Couple others I’ll let you discover, focus on the less big name winter run waters for less crowds.
Various skinny water west of i5 going out towards Cathlamet that are fun. Just depends what fly rod weights you have/want to use, if you want to swing, nymph, how far you want to walk/drive etc.
Aside from those your stillwater will be more of a struggle for fly fishing until we get warmer weather.
You could swing the Cowlitz and get ready to call someone XYZ expletives, EFL gets hit kind of hard along with SFT but they have good access, Kalama (nymph water with a couple swing spots down low by the park). Couple others I’ll let you discover, focus on the less big name winter run waters for less crowds.
Various skinny water west of i5 going out towards Cathlamet that are fun. Just depends what fly rod weights you have/want to use, if you want to swing, nymph, how far you want to walk/drive etc.