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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: 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: 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...
Posted: 5/30/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Wow what a exciting trip. we got at blue creek luanch at 5:40 and started fishing at 6:10. there was not that many people fishing for a surprise. i was fishing and got the bump bump bump.... missed th...
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: 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: 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: steelehead13
Posted: 1/8/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I went down to blue creek i had a half day to fish before picking up my doughter from winter break. We started at around seven. In the first hour of fishing we saw five fish rolling five feet in front...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 12/24/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
This is getting old. Took my son Matt down to the Cowlitz with hopes of getting him his first steelhead. We fished from daybreak until 1:30. Our primary method was boondogging eggs/float. We also trie...
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...
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: 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: 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: Brat Bonker
Posted: 7/1/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
SLOW!!! yesterday saw 3 springers & 2 steelhead caught in the afternoon and nothing glow balling. Today only saw 1 springer caught along with my 16inch jack that I released at barrier. Water is super ...
By: Brat Bonker
Posted: 7/5/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Heard Hawg quest show yesterday was on the cowlitz river for winter runs but unfortunately I missed it but who cares because I made my own hawg quest. Hooked 2 landed a 13.76lb chrome summer steelhead...
By: Brat Bonker
Posted: 7/15/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished friday night and saturday morning with my dad and I wnet 1 for 2 with 2 missed bober downs and 2 springer jack released along with a bonked 6lb summer run on bobber and jig. My dad lost one as ...
By: gonnahookit
Posted: 11/5/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Took my 3 yr old boy to Blue Creek to search for some steelhead or salmon. Didn't find any, heard of only one caught all day, but caught a nice batch of cutthroats, smallest about 13", largest one was...
By: snyderman399
Posted: 2/24/2019
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/24/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Still really slow. Got one and saw just a couple more caught