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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: salmonslayer117
Posted: 3/7/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well... Another day without a single fish. Me and bigsmooth headed down and started the morning at Barrier Dam at about 6 am. Quite a few people there. I started out running a bobber and jig setup usi...
By: my87
Posted: 3/11/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got there at 9:30 am.12 boats on the water,14 cars parked without trailers. Most people were fishing down river by the first island. I fished at the mouth of blue creek.had 2 on,both came off.2 others...
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: dreamer0131
Posted: 12/15/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
hit up the cowlitz river blue creek boatlaunch at daybreak. hopped in the boat with my brother-in-law and best friend. . we fished all day shooting up and down the river mainly in the blue creek area....
By: Robert4444
Posted: 12/16/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well was going to be in the area so brought my pole along. Hit up the
Blue creek area, only was able to stay for an hour. No fish in that short time.
Boat launch was busy, counted thirty bo...
By: jens
Posted: 12/17/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with goin_postal early and fished below the boat launch. We found a nice opening to fish and we had very high expectations today since we coaxed our bosses into letting us have the day off. O...
By: goin_postal
Posted: 12/20/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY,did i land my first stee-lee.im sorry for not posting these past several trips but i have been a crybaby getting skunked at steelhead fishing being that im new to targeting the...
By: NITRO 175
Posted: 12/21/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I got up at 5am yesterday and headed to the Cowlitz. We got there a little bit after 8am. The guys that had been there for a couple of hours already said that there had been nothing and tha...
By: Jay7
Posted: 12/23/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/22/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished just above the boat ramp fronting trout hatchery. Long day. Water temp about 45-50 degrees, visibility was about 2 feet and weather was partly cloudy with air temp in the mid 40's. Very crowd...
By: jens
Posted: 12/24/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/23/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with 'D-wizzle' and his buddy Dan with 'flinginpooh' and his son Dillon arriving later in the evening at Blue Creek. There were quite a few anglers spread along the shore with warm fires going...
By: weldcraft221
Posted: 12/30/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
the fishing was terrible i didnt get one and neiher did ANYONE else i didnt even see a guide boat pull one in heard rumers of only three fish caught that morning so i left water was perfect height an...
By: Jay7
Posted: 12/31/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/28/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got there around 1:00 pm and started to pound the water with fishing tackle. Lots of KFC but no hook ups. Had 2 nice steelheads caught above me but no more for that day. Tried a bit of night fishin...
By: flinginpooh
Posted: 12/31/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/31/2009
Hot Spots: 0
WOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! I did it last day of the year. 10lb steelie hen. Glow ballin all night long from 8pm wednesday till thursday morning then fished till noon. I got her just before day break. T...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/2/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
got up this morning at 12 am and headed to the cowlitz with a few friends, we got to the river at 2 am and fished blue creek above the boat launch. We glo-balled it until 630 am without a single fish ...
By: NITRO 175
Posted: 1/2/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Only had 3 hours to fish today. My son got a 5lber. And a couple of minutes before we had to go I hooked one and got her to the bank, she was about 8-10 lbs. I hooked 4, landed 1. and my son hooked 3,...
By: deezy38
Posted: 1/2/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the cowlitz from about 3pm jan1st till 8 am jan 2nd LONG DAY lol but a great day since i took home a 7lb winter steelie my first steelhead YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! saw about 10 fish walked out as i ...
By: hottshott206
Posted: 4/18/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
so me and flipboy206 and his brother went to the cowlitz today...got there round 530ish and started casting at around 545ish... a couple of fish on but fouled hooks so all released... at arounf 730 on...
By: Toni
Posted: 7/9/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
At 1:30am (7-08-09) the most instantaneous value for this river was 2540cfs. That is very low. I had booked a trip with Mystical Legends Guide Service for myself and my son. My son didn’t want to go....
By: Livin4Fishin
Posted: 7/27/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to the cowlitz near blue creek hatchery and boat launch to try my hand at some steelies for the first time. No luck! It was still a great day fishing even though the heat was relentless. Lots...
By: goin_postal
Posted: 11/29/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/28/2009
Hot Spots: 0
made it to the cow and the boats werent doing to bad with the steelheads,they averaged 3 per boat,but the bank anglers had nothing.i tried new tactics with jigs and bobber all day and had nothing but ...
By: my87
Posted: 3/19/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit blue creek yesterday. About 25 boat trailers in the parking lot at 9am. Saw 1 hook up in front of the ramp from a boat when I got there, saw 1 landed at the mouth of blue creek, that was it. Talke...
By: bluebullitt2003
Posted: 3/20/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
So after 2 years of river fishing i finally catch my first steelie!!!! I live up in the edmonds area so my buddy and i made the treck down to the cowlitz for the first time to try out his new wooldrid...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/24/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the cowlitz thur and fri, i was will 2 buddies we got some bumps landed a couple my advice for anyone that wants to fish the cowlitz is to have or get a jet boat everyone i saw in boats were na...
By: jbandurraga
Posted: 3/25/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Made the journey to the Cowlitz. Was not dissapointed. Have several hookups and landed a nice steelie hen (12lbs). Fight was awesome, especially trying to keep her out of the fast water. Amazing that ...
