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By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/23/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
another day on the cowlitz......fished 2-9 am no hits. globall yarn corky spoon sand shrimp...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/7/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
went to blue creek area today to try my luck at one of them late steelies or early springers, i had been reading reports saying the fishing was good, at its peak and what have you. i must say this is ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/29/2008
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the cowlitz on Saturday ,figured it should pretty good .There has been very light pressure last week because of the snow. Launched the boat at first light and fished hard until 1:30, never saw ...
By: cant sleep
Posted: 3/24/2008
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/24/2008
Hot Spots: 0
just got back from the cowlitz lunched at blue creek........ wheres the fish?...... waiting for the b run to show... either it is really late. or its completely a no show.... they have been ...
By: Toni
Posted: 6/1/2008
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
The place was the Cowlitz River Blue Creek Area. Weather was cloudy and very cool. Water temp was cold. I don't know what the flow was like since I don't have anything to compare it with. Fishing wa...
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: 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: Anonymous
Posted: 10/18/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
cowlitz pics for those non-believers.
By: chromerss
Posted: 11/7/2010
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
had a awesome three hours of fishing with the fasha. the water was high but still lots of fish. caught 8 fish nice and chrome too. have fun its worth a try! also let go about a five pound nat steelie....
By: Matt
Posted: 3/21/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at Blue Creek around 630-700 am, had to get in line with about 10 other boats waiting to launch. As we readied my rig for the water the boats just kept pouring in to the parking lot. The wo...
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: Acefishon
Posted: 7/6/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well hit Cowlitz 5am-3pm not even a bite it really slow the stupid power company keeps messing with river levels up down drastically started day at 6630 ended at 8900 major up swing and day before wa...
By: Acefishon
Posted: 6/25/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the river at 2:00-8:00 not a thing saw one fish caught river level is up but were are the fish late this year hopfully gets going soon .mabe dozen boats and dozen on banks really slow.
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: 'OL GREY DOG
Posted: 3/12/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
well our trip to the Columbia to try 'n murder a few poor defenceless springers was planed a few weeks ago.....conditions on the big C at daylight..winds blow'n bout 30 mph gust'n higher temp tr...
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: 6/5/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the cowlitz today, wow it is so blown out. What a waste of time, i advise anyone thinking of hitting it any time soon the reconsider, check the flows. I got washed away ha
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: 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: Blackstarfishing
Posted: 7/8/2019
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/1/2019
Hot Spots: 0
We have been fishing the Cowlitz River targeting summer steelhead the first week of July and experiencing some moderate success. We have been mainly covering the area between the town of Toledo all th...
By: Blackstarfishing
Posted: 7/22/2019
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/21/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Cowlitz River summer steelhead fishing has been steadily improving over the past week or so, disproving any previous theories about it going to be an average to less than average run size by yours tru...
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: CDL
Posted: 10/1/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/27/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Another afternoon of Spey rod fishing using the ultra sophisticated spey loops C, D and L - (chuck/duck/ & luck) to cast and hook some fish. 2 cooperated by swimming up onto the shore for me. One ge...
By: Tylerpearson19
Posted: 10/9/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Started about 645am today down in Castle Rock area to see if I could catch me a silver. Saw alot jumping first thing sun uprotection was only able to get one to bite for 3 hrs. Watched a kid across r...
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 ...
