My partner & I fished the Cowlitz on Friday. We went from I-5 to Olequah, without a strike, where we usually pick up fish. We used plugs, Divers w/ shrimp or eggs, drifted eggs, everything we could think of short of dupont. Nada.
The river is pretty low, and milky. I think what current is coming through the lakes (Reiffe & Mayfield) is picking up silt off the bottoms, & blowing it on through.
And for a river that alegedly has no natives, we've been getting a lot of unmarked fish. So far this year we've kept no fish. Go figure.