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By: jens
Posted: 11/8/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I arrived at Barrier Dam a little after 1p. Matt and I met up with Jerry who had been fishing all morning. He had a nice Chromer already banked, gorgeous fish. Using my hot color and set up I foun...
By: jens
Posted: 11/14/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I met up with Jerry at daybreak, there were only 5 of us on the river a little after 6:15am when I approached the drift...It was cold out today, the action was even colder. I really had to work at my...
By: donman
Posted: 11/14/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Yeah it was rough out there on the Cowlitz today. Very beautiful with the fog and sunrise, but thats it. Saw a guide service catch a nice chrome silver and we saw a couple of jumpers. Tried looking fo...
By: Jhuynh2
Posted: 12/3/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Not a whole lot of fish. No jumpers, lots of snags, need a boat to get to the other side where fish are. Fish on next time!
By: jtrapier
Posted: 12/10/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/6/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I know this report is late, I've been busy lately. My uncle and I hit up the Barrier on Sunday, and to our surprise silvers were rollin EVERYWHERE! The water was pretty high so we fished the hole up n...
By: dmangler69
Posted: 11/9/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This fishery reminded my wife and I of a trout pond. Excited grown men going nutsos over the Silvers like a kid at a trout pond. Cast and set your hook for every little bump. TIP411 sure got my text...
By: Jhuynh2
Posted: 11/11/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Water was running higher than normal, didn't get one take down, neither did my fishing buddies, all 4 of us, not many taken down today, maybe the run is slowing quite a bit down
By: dhokes
Posted: 11/11/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished @ barrier dam from about 10-1 before the rain came. Went 2 of 5. 1st was about a 12# wild coho in ok shape that I C&R. One guy wanted to keep it if I wasn't going to and I told him no, it was a...
By: chromerss
Posted: 11/13/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went back out with my dad and hooked into lots of fish. It wasn't as hot as sunday but still managed 15 or so hookups landing about 8 between the two of us. It is gettin really snaggy out there. Pops ...
By: Fish_Bait111397
Posted: 11/13/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I didnt get skunked today :) but, did not catch a salmon. Got out to Barrier dam at about 9:00 a.m. It was NOT combat fishing, there was maybe 20 people from the boat launch all the way up all day. W...
By: natetreat
Posted: 9/29/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the cowlitz yesterday. After all of the fishing in these loacaql rivers it felt nice to have a familiar river. It was perfect. No snags in your drift, fishing rolling. Current was perfect and ...
By: spokey9
Posted: 10/2/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
went down to cowlitz to fish the pool at barrier dam, got there around 6am. started of glow balling til sunrise, hooked up 7 or 8 fish (i think they were all kings) but they kept snapping off. at sun...
By: bluebullitt2003
Posted: 10/3/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
went out to the cowlitz with some buddies. we caught fish all day, the first 3 i caught were all native, so that was frusturating, but the last hook up I had was this huge hawg! it weighed in at 20.06...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/18/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Cowlitz is hot ...! The silvers were litterally eating corkies like trout on opening day ..
Check it out...CHROME CHROME CHROME.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/18/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
cowlitz pics for those non-believers.
By: phishOn
Posted: 10/18/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Priceless !!!!
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/27/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
hit barier dam with a buddy,got there around noon.between us we walked outn with 8,bright to bright enough and released quite a few.Driftin eggs and corkie and yarn.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/2/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
One nice afternoon on the cowlitz just beautiful.Pulled up at the river at like 12:00am tons of people so i had to stick with combat fishing the cowlitz. Fish are every where. Hooked bout 35 fish land...
By: Jhuynh2
Posted: 11/5/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Not a lot of fish in the river, it is very high, blown out, very narrow space to fish at the dam with everyone, not many fish landed - too much gear lost for such a high river right now
By: Toni
Posted: 10/9/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This is for Thursday 10-7 on the Cowlitz. We worked hard. Very hard.Well Phil always works hard.
I found out and Phil pointed out that I have TO SET THE HOOK! I have spent the last 7 months looking ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/26/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today was a very memorable day for me on the Cowlitz! A day of fishing unlike any other. We started fishing early morning with a few fish between 5 guys. The bite slowed down come daylight, and i fin...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 5/29/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
River was WAY TO HIGH today. Runnin at 9350 CFS I was told. Lost my Keys in the water.. then found em. Lucky I have like 15 keys on my set. Threw everything I had at em....... Just not fun, when you t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/9/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great start too the day started out at 6:30Am and by 6:50 had the first fish on 10min later a nice 24lbs springer in the boat on 8 pound test line great fight.fished until noon no other takers. ...
By: Jhuynh2
Posted: 5/3/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the barrier, no luck, saw 1 fish caught only all day, saw a few jumpers but no biters, lots of smelt, water levels too low. Threw everything in the books at them and no biters
By: jonfishin
Posted: 11/14/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
on sunday morn went to the cowlitz and hooked up five times and brought home this big boot 45lbr good for smoking i rate my day a 10
