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Glacier-fed Tacoma-area river with fall Chinook, coho, chum, and odd-year pinks.
Nothing new — the 2026 run is done here.
It finished at 30 steelhead on May 29, 2026, and none have been counted since. The chart below shows how that run went next to a typical year.
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73°
Clear · feels 71°
Sun
Good
74°/52°
wind 7 kt · 6% rain
Mon
Good
71°/57°
wind 9 kt · 8% rain
Tue
Good
75°/53°
wind 8 kt · 1% rain
Wed
Favorable
84°/54°
wind 5 kt · 0% rain
Thu
Good
77°/55°
wind 8 kt · 4% rain
Fri
Good
65°/51°
wind 8 kt · 21% rain
Sat
Favorable
68°/49°
wind 5 kt · 15% rain
from the 11th St. Bridge to 400' downstream of Clark's CRC (804)
All species — Aug. 19-Oct. 31
Anti-snagging rule. Night closure. Barbless hooks required.
from 400' upstream of Clark's Creek to Carbon River CRC (804)
All species — Aug. 19-Oct. 31
Night closure. Anti-snagging rule. Barbless hooks required.
from the 11th St. Bridge to 400' downstream of Clark's CRC (804)
▸ All species — Aug. 19-Oct. 31: Anti-snagging rule. Night closure. Barbless hooks required.
▸ All species — Aug. 19-Sept. 30: CLOSED Sundays, Mondays, and Tuesdays.
▸ Trout — Aug. 19-Oct. 31: Statewide min. size/daily limit. Except: release cutthroat trout and wild rainbow trout.
▸ Other game fish — Aug. 19-Oct. 31: Statewide min. size/daily limit.
▸ Salmon — Aug. 19-Oct. 31: Min. size 12". Daily limit 6 includning no more than 2 adults. Release chum and wild Chinook.
from 400' downstream to 400' upstream of Clark's Creek
▸ All species: CLOSED WATERS.
from 400' upstream of Clark's Creek to Carbon River CRC (804)
▸ All species — Aug. 19-Sept. 30: CLOSED Sundays, Mondays, and Tuesdays.
▸ All species — Aug. 19-Oct. 31: Night closure. Anti-snagging rule. Barbless hooks required.
▸ Trout — Aug. 19-Oct. 31: Statewide min. size/daily limit. Except: release cutthroat trout and wild rainbow trout.
▸ Other game fish — Aug. 19-Oct. 31: Statewide min. size/daily limit.
▸ Salmon — Aug. 19-Oct. 31: Min. size 12". Daily limit 6 including no more than 2 adults. Release chum and wild Chinook.
from Carbon River upstream CRC (804)
▸ All species: Selective gear rules.
▸ Trout — Sat. before Memorial Day-Jan. 15: Statewide min. size/daily limit. Except: release cutthroat trout and wild rainbow trout.
▸ Other game fish — Sat. before Memorial Day-Jan. 15: Statewide min. size/daily limit.
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.
1,040 cfs
steady →
-36% vs the normal for this date (1,630 cfs)
gage height 10.2 ft