01/23/2026

Chehalis, here's what I know........ I'm retired, don't like to fish brrrrrrr weather. Just about every day I go for a "lookie lou". I live in Central Park, so I go down the old hiway so I can check lower Wynoochee at "twin bridges", then I head East, look at boat launch by the Freeway......then go to Fuller boat launch.

Some days of the week, I drive the Satsop Loop. past cemetery, to Sheafer Park, continue to West Fork(now the main river), because the river cut thru about a half mile up from the boat launch.

Short bit on what I've been seeing, then I'll do Wynoochee.............

Satsop Hiway launch, not many rigs at all, somedays 0, big log jam below Cook creek, would be a tough pull walking drift boat around. Not many cars parked around "S corners", West Fork not many rigs there, some jet boats and a few drift boat.......I did talk with 1 drift boat person at Hiway launch, couple of days ago, NO Fish, not even a bite. If you don't know this, below the freeway, the Satsop "cut a new channel" no water goes by Keys road anymore, river is West "quite a ways"

Wynoochee......lot's of people, and boat traffic from Crossover down, to Black Ck.,
White Bridge area has some boats, drift and jet, not many.

I don't think the "fish catching" has been good, in the Chehalis or Satsop compared to many years in my past years since 1968........

No comment, from me on Wynoochee, sorry Live too close and too many know me, that fish it all the time........can tell you this, friends of mine JUST AREN'T FISHING!!!!!!