i bet this decrease in hatchery fish and increase in unretainable fake wild fish is just gonna make the river worse than it has been in the last few years

guess my kids may never know about how great the cowlitz was in the 80's and early 90's, i caught my first steelie from blue creek when i was 6.

the cowlitz should be managed as more of a meat run, when compared to a river like the nisqually which used to have a lot of wild fish until the indians did them in