FISHING -- Uh-oh.  Not only have the steelhead been slow to come up the Columbia River and in to the Snake -- many of the fish we thought would be coming won't be coming at all.

Fish managers from Washington and Oregon have downgraded their forecast of A-Run steelhead moving up into the Columbia system.

Despite that, there's a bunch of steelhead already in the system and many of them are ready to start pouring over Lower Granite Dam any day.

But here's the not-so-great news just released by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.

• The Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) met Monday August 27 to review steelhead stock status.  TAC updated the forecast for Group A upriver summer steelhead to 191,000, or 61.3% of the 311,800 fish preseason forecast. 
• The 191,000 Group A steelhead return would be the lowest since 1999 (176,500). 
• TAC agreed it was too early to update the Group B run size, but recognized Group B passage was tracking less than expected, indicating the Group B run may also be less than forecast.