One person missing near Castle Rock. It was just on Portland news and not many details. Anyone else see this?

Like you said Stew not much info, just that a boat was down with 5 people aboard and that they were still looking for one of them. Said it was around the confluence of the Cow and Toutle.

Edit: Link to story Boat down/ One man missing

Here is the KGW link, it doesnt say much either though http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_0121_news_boat_capsizing.46aa0a02.html

Every boaters worst nightmare!

Just saw the morning news and they suspended the search last night and will start again this morning. Not looking good for the Father. Article said it was a 20' boat and they still don't know what happened.

I wonder if the 2000 cfs releases of water that Tacoma let go yesterday morning around 9:30 had anything to do with this accident? It would take about 6 hours for that water release to reach the Toutle area, and that would make the Cowlitz rise about a foot and a half or more. The area that they are talking about is really slow water with some really big submerged logs that will lay jus inches below the service and are almost impossible to see do the lack of moving water. My guess, he probably hit one of those submerged logs or he might have run into a floater with that kind of a water rise.

Hard lesion to learn; you can never turn your back on a river. Luckily, it appears that his family all had life jackets on when the accident occurred. Unluckily for the guy, it appears that he did not!

People that don't fish the Cowlitz very often need to remember that the flows are not controlled by rainy events during the day…they are controlled by some money hungry company that decides to pull the plug whenever they fill like making a little more profit from 70 miles away.


Cowlitzfisherman

it probably wont help the search any now, because they boosted the water up to 7500cfs yesterday.

Now they have it up to 8500. There's only 3400 coming in up at riffe. Why so much water? Guess they gotta empty the lake to justify price hikes.