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By: fish_4_coho
Posted: 11/11/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
With part of the morning and afternoon free, I headed for the barrier dam. Its close and convenient and a spot you can catch a fish from time to time. I wasn't expecting the number of people I saw wh...
By: Johnny Darter
Posted: 11/25/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/25/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went out fishing the last few days on the upper cowlitz by Packwood. Water was really clear but found some holes to catch a few coho from. Caught a quite a few jacks but finally reeled in this nice ...
By: HookEmBoy
Posted: 10/9/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/9/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Below Barrier Dam what a good day alot of fish and hookups
Hook up 1 coho a very nice size and land it as well as a king but it was a native. Lost 3 kings
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: 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: linh.uw
Posted: 11/21/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Posting for Saturday Nov 14th, 2014
Hi everyone. I fished the Cowlitz River by the Barrier Dam last Saturday and it was an overall great day. Got to the river early, squeezed into a spot, and lin...
By: ilikefish
Posted: 11/27/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Took my son down to the cowlitz since it was not going to rain. Water was super high, but the clarity was good. We found some soft water and floated eggs. We both landed one beautiful coho but they we...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 10/14/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Cowlitz at the barrier dam with some friends. We were standing in the water ready to go when the clock registered an hour before daylight. Started the day off drifting glow corkies and imme...
By: tele_maniac
Posted: 10/18/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/17/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Took a vacation day Friday and hit the Cowlitz river in pursuit of chrome. Had a great time! There were a lot of fishermen out for a weekday. Caught some nice fish, but had to work for them and put in...
By: c_saeteurn
Posted: 10/20/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/19/2014
Hot Spots: 0
hmmm. lewis county, barrier dam doesnt seem to be an fishing option on the location selection. Well Headed out Sunday with a couple friends this morning in search of some coho at barrier; since the re...
By: seattlesteban
Posted: 10/24/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Got my first fish out of the cowlitz!
Went down to Lamiglas HQ to get a replacement rod. Got to barrier dam about 1/2 hour after quitting time and got myself a spot in the rotation.
I had been h...
By: seattledan
Posted: 11/1/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/24/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Weather: Mostly overcast and no rain. Heavy rains the previous day.
Location: Below barrier dam boat launch. I crossed the creek just below the boat launch and walked down the bank as far as I coul...
By: rmerikle
Posted: 11/3/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
All times are before time change since I refused to switch time until after fishing. Left home at 3:30AM and arrived barrier dam @ 5:30AM. Foggy Dark, but darn glad I got there so early. Got a great s...
By: djw0414
Posted: 11/10/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I was fortunate to be invited on a guided trip to the Cowlitz by a good friend who was picking up the tab. You gotta love that. We met at Barrier and launched around 7:30 am and started side-drifting ...
By: birdjazz10
Posted: 9/26/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the mouth of the Toutle for three days. They were rolling everywhere but no hang ups. I threw everything I had at them...different color corkies, different color Vibrax, jigs, Dick Nites...noth...
By: natetreat
Posted: 10/22/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I had an opportunity to fish down on the Cowlitz the other day, and it was a blast! Lots of fish, lots of hookups. Chinook and silvers both were willing to play!
We got our fish on eggs, drifted an...
By: GRIZZ55
Posted: 7/5/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/22/2013
Hot Spots: 3
While fishing the Cowlitz River between the Cowlitz River Dam and Riffe Lake we caught many Kokane in the 10" to 16" range trolling the river with 00 dodgers and wedding ring spinners tipped with very...
By: natetreat
Posted: 4/29/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
We fished out on the Cowlitz this Saturday. The weather was cooperative, but the fish weren't. We started at Blue Creek searching out steelhead. Threw everything in the bag at them, and didn't find an...
By: rephresh
Posted: 4/29/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Great day on the river. 5 fish hooked and 1 landed. These guys are very big and bright. Eggs are the ticket. Few steelhead still coming thru too. Saw one guy leave with 2 and buddy hooked 1.
By: natetreat
Posted: 4/22/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/20/2012
Hot Spots: 0
We worked the Cowlitz at the barrier dam, trying for some of the springers that have been showing up lately. Went through the assorted techniques for barrier dam success, drift fishing, float fishing ...
By: schu7498
Posted: 5/29/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the morning and afternoon at the cowlitz trying for springers. Started out between the hatcherys at a quiet spot. Saw lots of boat traffic, and no fish. Then went up to the barrier dam, lots of ...
By: blurock
Posted: 9/17/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
What a fun day! We went out with Bruce Warren to learn the lower Cowlitz and have a fun day as well as hopefully catch some fish. Got up at 2:30 to meet at 5:30AM in Castle Rock.
We fished the ge...
By: blurock
Posted: 9/18/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I was suppose to go to the Potholes this weekend for some Walleye, Bass, and Trout action, but it didn't happen. So we packed up and headed for the Cowlitz instead.
Saturday we fished Blue Creek ...