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By: Blackstarfishing
Posted: 9/5/2019
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/2/2019
Hot Spots: 0
The lower Cowlitz river, below the Toutle river, is currently fishing well for fall chinook salmon and summer steelhead, although chinook retention is, at the time of this report, not allowed. The maj...
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: 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: Jhuynh2
Posted: 10/26/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
no one fishing, only saw 4 to 5 brown old boot kings, no fish sad to see this year, went home to the Skokomish and hit 2 chums!
By: kinghunter
Posted: 4/6/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the Cow with my two kids in around 11am. It was not crowded, it was a beautiful day. I actually got sun burn on my arms and face. The kids had a great time also. Well I fished alittle bit ...
By: goin_postal
Posted: 10/16/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
and another good day fishing.a little cold and rainy but nothing wrong with that.this is the fish i kept and there is a lot more being landed the whole time i was there.the first fish i hooked was the...
By: jens
Posted: 10/17/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with Goin_postal. We fished Barrier Dam slightly below the spillway. I was using chartreuse corky and tuft of peach yarn 1/2 oz weight and 5 feet of leader. I was running 15lb main and 12lb ...
By: goin_postal
Posted: 10/17/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
hell yea, jens and i got into the fish today but it wasnt anything like last night.by the time i got there he had a good 10-12lb silver and all i hooked into were a hole bunch of dark kings.i never th...
By: wescooper2003
Posted: 10/18/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Did very good caught 3 kings, and 4 silvers, great night of fishing but thing when to crap. We were at the mouth of the Toutle somebody broke in to my SUV stole bunch of fishing gear and personal ite...
By: ivebenfishin
Posted: 10/19/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Cowlitz on sunday..barrier dam to be more specific to try and catch some silvers and maybe play with some dark kings.
Started around 6:25-6:30am and the line had already formed so me and my...
By: jens
Posted: 10/20/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I took the day off today and my son begged to go. I'll let him play real hooky today. We met up with Goin_postal and hit the water right before 7am. The river wasn't too crowded compared to the w...
By: goin_postal
Posted: 10/20/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
good day at the river like always.no coho liked planed but i landed a 30lb+ chinook,i just cant figure out how to get the pic.jens took the pic at the river and emailed it to me but when i saved it it...
By: goin_postal
Posted: 10/23/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/23/2009
Hot Spots: 0
so the silvers must have made it threw the dam since the last couple days i decided to try eggs at the spillway since last time i was there everybody was nailing them.and when i got there it was reall...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 10/25/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I've never seen so many big kings. Went to Barrier Dam and fished from 7am to 1:30pm. I didn't get any fish, but there are plenty of fish jumping. People around me had better luck. Saw five silver and...
By: goin_postal
Posted: 10/25/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Made it down there with jens,d-wizzle,kinghunter and some others and started off hooking them but nothing landed.so after the longest time being wasted there i walked over to the spillway and there we...
By: jens
Posted: 10/26/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Picked up D-wizzle by 4:15am with Kinghunter and Goin_postal not too far behind us. We wanted to get to the hotspot early for those reports of the b-run of Silvers. I had another buddy meet us ther...
By: kinghunter
Posted: 10/26/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
What an awesome day of fishing, Jens was right about the hug pigs in the river, I don't care if they are boots, they were still fun to catch. Met Jens and Dwizzle early in the morning and on my secon...
By: jens
Posted: 10/29/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I fished from 1-4 today. Not many people out fishing. The river was a lot higher compared to over the weekend. I found a nice spot amongst the line and had some nice battles with Kings. I switched...
By: goin_postal
Posted: 10/31/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/31/2009
Hot Spots: 0
not to bad today.had to work hard for these two.i landed the most and the biggest,not to brag or anything,but a total of about 8-9 coho was landed today in the drifting area.caught some kings as well....
By: jens
Posted: 11/1/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I arrived at Barrier Dam a little before 5:30am. Met up with Bigsmooth and his bud Jeff. Goin_postal, Kinghunter, and Jerry were also fishing along side of us as well. I think numerous...
By: kinghunter
Posted: 11/1/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
First of all my wife took horrible pics of my catch today so not able to post it. Met with the usual group and more today. I arrived around 6am and on my second cast landed a nice chrome Silver, she...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 11/1/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Great time down on the Cowlitz with the boys. Thanks guys for the good time. Once again I didn't walk away with a fish, but I sure did have a few good fights. The last of which took all my line.
Jens...
By: goin_postal
Posted: 11/2/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
went to the cow with all the walakes guys and more and had a blast.took home 2 silvs.i was to lazy to take pics.got home and crashed.that drive is horrible
By: gpc
Posted: 11/4/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the cow yesterday from 6am - 1pm. My buddy caught a small steelhead and hooked into 3 kings, landed a 20 -25lber. I still cant figure out this river, but I did have a couple fish on, so thats a...
