Smelt are coming.

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Mom lives on the lower Columbia river just down from the Cowlitz/Wahkiakum county line.  Big pods of sea lions and birds just started rolling upriver past her place today.   Not sure if they will give us a season but it's nice to see that a large school of them things is still around.   

[nontypical176]

Looked this morning.   Already a big group of sea lions clogging the mouth of the Coweeman river, looks like they are on vacation without a care in the world, and another bunch of lions made it up to Castle Rock, so there's already some smelt in the Cowlitz.  I still don't see a lot of birds up here though.