Hello,I live in washougal,its growing in leaps and bounds,as far as fishing the washougal not what it used to be by a long shot it still has winter steehead and summer steelhead and fall chinook and silvers but not in the quantities of old.We do get a decent fall salmon run if they would let us fish it.We have good sturgeon fishing here if you have a boat even off the bank,I do off the bank at bonniville dam,they do catch them off a fishing dock right by the town.I honestly believe the kalama has a better fishery as far as steelhead and spring salmon of which the washougal has none,its also better fished from a boat(drift),I've only fished it that way,I don't know about bank fishing,I understand its good also.Hope this helps.From what I've read on this post tho the area up on the sound has a lot more rivers and better fishing.

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Bob Dawson


[This message has been edited by dawhunt (edited 05-19-2000).]