If your a bank bound angler like me, the St. Helens docks are a great place. Unfortunatly, it's a great place! Effective February 1 - April 30, 2012 angling is prohibited for all species in the area from a line between the upstream end of Sand Island and a marker on the Oregon shoreline, downstream to a line between the lower end of Sand Island and a marker on the Oregon shoreline. Gotta love Oregon! If ya got a boat, there is a good hole on the Washington side of Sand Island. There is a marker tower on the Washington side of the river and the hole is maybe 50 yards off the bank from it.
I've been fishing Diblee's beach in Rainier for metalheads and nooks until I can get back to the docks. Steelys are still outnumbering the nooks, but that should change pretty soon.