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By: RiverOtterGS
Posted: 2/26/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Today I fished with one client for just a half day trip. We had a good day getting 3 steelhead. One steelhead was a wild fish so we released it unharmed. The other two steelhead one buck and one hen. ...
By: RiverOtterGS
Posted: 2/27/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Woke up to the sound of rain pounding on my roof, oh boy going to be a wet day on the river. Managed to roll out and after a shot of coffee I was on my way to meet my guys on the Cowlitz at Blue cree...
By: RiverOtterGS
Posted: 3/5/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/5/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Cowlitz river today a chilly start of 33 degrees with 4 guys and a 16 year old young man about to catch his first and soon to be hard to ever beat 18lb hatchery steelhead.
The water was co...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 3/7/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished all day with Gringo Pescador, his brother Gene, and friend Jim. We launched out of Toledo at 7am. I had to remind myself that this was Saturday as there were no rigs at the launch, unreal! As w...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 3/8/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Day 2 of our weekend fishing adventure. This time gringo and I fished with his friend Dan. Plan was the same, side drifting or bobber dogging the area around Mission Bar to downriver of Toledo. We l...
By: TahoeFisherman
Posted: 3/11/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/6/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on the Cowlitz on Friday. Lots of sleds on the river, no suprise there, so we ended up hitting most of the gravel brs below blue creek. Landed one hatchery about 6 or seven pounds but saw many...
By: nascarrich64
Posted: 9/11/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Took a day to fish the Cowlitz River. Left Castle Rock boat launch motoring down river working different areas side drifting eggs/shrimp. By the end of the day we had 21 hookups, 15 large Chinook/Coho...
By: lhouch1
Posted: 10/25/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/24/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Brenda and I went to the Cowlitz yesterday ...long day. Left Puyallup at about 430 am. Stopped by subway for sandwiches for lunch then headed to Blue Creek. After about a 90 minute drive we got the...
By: dad3lb
Posted: 8/8/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
First time steelhead fishing and first time at the Cowlitz, fished the blue creek below the dam and used corky and yarn. 0900 that I hooked a good size hatchery steelie 9 lb plus or minus . put up ...
By: Scheindogg
Posted: 8/11/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got to blue creek trout hatchery area around 630, lines in water by 645. Water was super low today for the cowlitz. I had to walk a solid 35 yards out into the river and was still only at my waist. Tr...
By: Snoop
Posted: 8/18/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
12 years ago as an 8th or 9th grader I fished the Cowlitz River with my dad. I haven't been back since, and avoided it because of the horror stories of combat fishing, and the long drive. With every...
By: Snoop
Posted: 8/18/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
After an awesome time re learning this river after 12 or so years the day before I made another 2.5 hour drive to blue creek. This time I took the more direct trail to the bank where all the action w...
By: dad3lb
Posted: 8/23/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
spend a day at the blue creek, saw some silver caught and a few steelhead. used black and orange corky on a drift. caught this beauty. beautiful day and had a bit of warden encounter, not towards me...
By: Scheindogg
Posted: 8/23/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/23/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Quite the interesting day... As a side note before I start with the rest of this, know that I just got back into fishing those year for the first time since being a little kid so therefore I'm quite t...
By: 66kma
Posted: 8/24/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/20/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Water was on drop. Bite was on up until midnight. Lost 5, got 2. One of my best fishing outing. Met with cool, nice people.
Learn a lot. Later is going to be better. Love that fishery. Just found out...
By: Scheindogg
Posted: 8/27/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/27/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went with my dad today. Got to barrier dam by 645, lines in water by 7.
Water was higher than Tuesday but still quite low.
Hooked into one around 8, still a novice fisherman I was walking him down t...
By: HookEmBoy
Posted: 9/18/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/17/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Hook 10 kings all together, landed 4 and 3 came off the hook and the other 3 snap my leader line so it was a very good day for me just below the barrier dam.
By: fish_4_coho
Posted: 9/25/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/24/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the barrier dam after reading reports of a few salmon being kept, including some coho on the wdfw sw Washington fish report. I was hoping the rain might entice some fresh fish upstream, but I w...
By: fish_4_coho
Posted: 8/23/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/22/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Back home, with a week of vacation left. Went to the barrier dam to see what's happening. Actually got to fish the hatchery intake swimming pool (I just made that up-but that's what it feels like I a...
By: catchanything66
Posted: 6/1/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/27/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Started early just at sunrise. Fished for about 3 hours with nothing on the hook. Only 2 fish being landed were up by the dam. Most likely they were using eggs under a float. Seen a number of floats g...
By: catchanything66
Posted: 6/1/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I was there early this time with my best friend and his son. Got there early again. This time I didn't hear anything coming from the dam area or even a whaa hoo. Fish on. Nothing this time. My friend ...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 5/21/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
So, this is a skunk report, but I got a lot of good info in the process and have decided to share with you all. Also, this report has absolutely nothing to do with fishing the barrier dam, so if you a...
By: sealegs
Posted: 4/18/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Felt " sick " on Thursday night and called in "sick" on Friday. Amazingly, I felt better as I was driving down to the Cowlitz River to try my odds at a second Chinook. I prepped Roe sacks the night be...
By: Gringo Pescador
Posted: 4/29/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with another WaLaker and headed south to the Cowlitz hoping for late B-run Steel or Early Springers. Started at Blue Creek around 7am and fished our way down to the old creek and back, threw e...
By: akfishgrl
Posted: 3/2/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the Blue creek hatchery. Got a couple bites and watched a spey caster catch a really nice bright ...maybe ~8-10lber on a streamer. Saw another two separate boats catch one each. This was fro...
