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By: salmonlander
Posted: 3/9/2014
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Headed South for the Smelt dip on Saturday morning not really knowing what to expect as I had never experienced one. After a coaching and some general info from a great friend, and a borrowed net from...
By: Toni
Posted: 3/25/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
It rained, it was windy, and some sun showed up. I don’t know exactly where we were but Phil knew where some fish were.
We were happy!
We are in a battle! Angler against fish! We need an arsena...
By: catchanything66
Posted: 11/17/2014
Species: Other
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Started early by boat launch at Blue creek by throwing glo corkies. Then went to floats and eggs and spinners. Nothing. Worked my way down the river to Blue creek hitting any number of open spots and ...
By: Elcalamar
Posted: 3/16/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing with my buddy yesterday on the Cowlitz. took our time and launched late, which was awesome since we completely missed the rain. We launched at blue creek and boy were there a lot of boats...
By: flyfisherguy
Posted: 2/7/2016
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
What a fantastic day on the Cowlitz River near Longview fishing for smelt! The fish were so plentiful (and so was the crowd!) I'm sure that no one who was dipping went home empty handed. The DFW reall...
By: 4n6fisher
Posted: 4/12/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The day started off with high hopes, as we were walking in about 6:15 we see some guy walking out with six fish for him and his buddy. We jumped into their spot thinking it would be a good location, ...
By: c_saeteurn
Posted: 5/28/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/28/2015
Hot Spots: 0
headed down to barrier early this morning. got there around 3am, waited on the banks at 4am. good crowd. Was able to hook and land one 15 lbs buck. bright, very oily springer. had a 11foot rod and cou...
By: 4n6fisher
Posted: 6/1/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Heading back home after the skunk at Scanewa, I dropped the wife of a Mayfield lake to cruise around on the pontoon boat, while I went down to barrier dam to scope out the scene. Maybe just because i...
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...
Posted: 5/24/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Drove down Thursday night (Slept in the Truck) in hopes of bringing home some fish. Up bright an early in line at barrier tossing eggs under a float as usual. A few guys tagged springers early but it ...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 5/31/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/31/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Cowlitz at the barrier dam early this morning for spring Chinook. Saw quite a few fish hooked/landed with people having success drifting glow corkies, using darts, drifting eggs, and floati...
By: tele_maniac
Posted: 5/31/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/30/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Barrier Dam on Friday evening with Hepker hoping to catch my first Springer of the season. We float fished eggs and sand shrimp for several hours. Missed a couple take downs, had two solid bites t...
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: Anonymous
Posted: 12/22/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great day freezing at the disability hole at bluecreek. started about 10 am and was done in an hour. cork w/jig-black and red tipped with fresh shrimp. My first steelhead and it was cool @ 12 lb...
By: spokey9
Posted: 9/15/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Saw the number of fish the hatchery got back last week so my buddy and i shot down to barrier to see what we could do. Got there around 5:30am and rigged up. Made my first cast about 5:50 or so with a...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/5/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
2 for 2..... second on a b.c. steel spoon... 14 lbs, 34 in...... looks like the cowcow should be pretty sweet this year
By: Brat Bonker
Posted: 5/28/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/27/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Cow at barrier and blue ck from 5am-1pm and caught a nice 8-10lb summer run steelhead on float and eggs on my second cast at barrier. Nothing going on at blue ck, but a lot of people were c...
By: djw0414
Posted: 4/3/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to hit the Cowlitz from the bank at Blue Creek with a fellow retired Boeing friend. The river was running at 11,000 cfs which is high but fishable from the bank. Got there at 6:30 AM and the p...
By: marvin
Posted: 4/8/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
WENT FISHING WITH MY TWO BROTHERS FOR MY BIRTHDAY. WE HAD A GREAT DAY. WE CAUGHT 5 FISH THEY WERE 9-14LBS REALLY NICE FISH. WE WERE FISHING BLUE CREEK LOTS OF FISH BEING CAUGHT. ...
By: sumpqua
Posted: 4/20/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Caught a suprisingly bright hen at the "tailout" above blue creek. Hooked another high closer to the pipe but lost it. About 1 fish per every 4 poles from what I could tell. Fished 6:30-10 AM at th...
By: Dan360
Posted: 2/8/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the run from the Blue Creek Boat Launch down to the mouth of Blue Creek. Floated jigs of various colors, drifted shrimp and eggs, drifted a bead, no luck. Not a single fish on the bank all mo...
By: brandon_murray1
Posted: 11/3/2013
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/3/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Fished up by Blue Creek Hatchery. Only stayed for about an hour. Took a little bit of wandering till I found the fish. Ended up catching them right above the boat launch about twenty feet out using a ...
By: Fisher83
Posted: 2/2/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the dam in the morning, only one fish caught on float n jig...no pics since it was not me. Then, around noon, I headed to Blue Creek...saw low turn out of boats and anglers.....hmmm....must be ...
By: natetreat
Posted: 5/5/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well we've been fishing the Cowlitz now for a bit. We banked it today though, had some good springer lessons in some 80 degree weather. It's been very good. Today was a lot of fun, fish jumping everyw...
