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Whatcom County's glacial river — spring Chinook at Kendall Creek and fall runs near Deming.
Nothing new — the 2026 run is done here.
It finished at 72 steelhead on Feb 3, 2026, and none have been counted since. The chart below shows how that run went next to a typical year.
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Currently
59°
Clear · feels like 58°
Mon
Fair
66°/56°
wind 13 kt · 36% rain
Tue
Good
70°/51°
wind 6 kt · 1% rain
Wed
Favorable
71°/55°
wind 5 kt · 1% rain
Thu
Favorable
67°/51°
wind 5 kt · 4% rain
Fri
Favorable
65°/49°
wind 5 kt · 15% rain
Sat
Good
72°/52°
wind 8 kt · 21% rain
Sun
Favorable
69°/48°
wind 5 kt · 10% rain
from the Lummi Indian Reservation boundary to the Yellow marker approx. 0.65 miles upstream of the Slater Rd. Bridge CRC (794)
All species — Aug. 1-Oct. 26
Anti-snagging rule. Night closure.
from the Yellow marker approx. 0.65 miles upstream of the Slater Rd. to the yellow marker at the FFA high school barn in Deming CRC (794)
All species — Aug. 1-Dec. 31
Anti-snagging rule. Night closure.
from the Lummi Indian Reservation boundary to the Yellow marker approx. 0.65 miles upstream of the Slater Rd. Bridge CRC (794)
▸ All species — Aug. 1-Oct. 26: Anti-snagging rule. Night closure.
▸ Trout — Aug. 1-Oct. 26: Statewide min. size/daily limit. Except: Cutthroat trout and wild rainbow trout: min. size 14".
▸ Steelhead (hatchery) — Aug. 1-Oct. 26: Closed.
▸ Other game fish — Aug. 1-Oct. 26: Statewide min. size/daily limit.
▸ Salmon — Aug. 1-Sept. 30: Min. size 12". Daily limit 6 including no more than 2 each of wild coho, chum, and hatchery Chinook. Release wild Chinook.
▸ Salmon — Oct. 1-Oct. 26: Min. size 12". Daily limit 6 including no more than 2 each of Chinook, wild coho, and chum.
from the Yellow marker approx. 0.65 miles upstream of the Slater Rd. to the yellow marker at the FFA high school barn in Deming CRC (794)
▸ All species — Aug. 1-Dec. 31: Anti-snagging rule. Night closure.
▸ Trout — Aug. 1-Dec. 31: Statewide min. size/daily limit. Except: Cutthroat trout and wild rainbow trout: min. size 14".
▸ Steelhead (hatchery) — Aug. 1-Dec. 31: Closed.
▸ Other game fish — Aug. 1-Dec. 31: Statewide min. size/daily limit.
▸ Salmon — Aug. 1-Sept. 30: Min. size 12". Daily limit 6 including no more than 2 each of wild coho, chum, and hatchery Chinook. Release wild Chinook.
▸ Salmon — Oct. 1-Dec. 31: Min. size 12". Daily limit 6 including no more than 2 each of Chinook, wild coho, and chum.
from yellow marker at the FFA high school barn in Deming to confluence of North and South forks CRC (794)
▸ All species — Oct. 1-Dec. 31: Night closure. Anti-snagging rule.
▸ Trout — Oct. 1-Dec. 31: Statewide min. size/daily limit. Except: Cutthroat trout and wild rainbow trout: min. size 14".
▸ Steelhead (hatchery) — Oct. 1-Dec. 31: Closed.
▸ Other game fish — Oct. 1-Dec. 31: Statewide min. size/daily limit.
▸ Salmon — Oct. 1-Dec. 31: Min. size 12". Daily limit 6 including no more than 2 each of Chinook, wild coho, and chum.
There is no tide here, so the windows are first and last light — the hour either side of sunrise and sunset, when river fish move and feed. Wind, the chance of rain during the window, and how much rain fell in the previous day separate one morning from the next; the river's flow and what the hatchery is counting apply to the whole period.
Only legal hours are considered — one hour before sunrise to one hour after sunset — so a turn in the middle of the night is left out entirely, and a window running past the boundary is trimmed to the part you may fish.
Times come from NOAA and Open-Meteo, counts from WDFW. The ranking is ours — it is a read on conditions, not a promise of fish, and it does not account for regulations. Check the rules for the section you are fishing before you go.
USGS publishes what the river is doing now, not what it will do — so flow is read as a condition on the whole period, and a heavy rain day can change it.
1,020 cfs
steady →
-29% vs the normal for this date (1,430 cfs)
gage height 3.8 ft