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Posted: 10/12/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/12/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The Cowlitz has not been bad for Coho and some Chinook. The biggest problem the river is low and clean. The good and bad news is we have a major storm coming in tonight and will last through the week...
By: seattlesteban
Posted: 10/18/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
2 years ago I fished the Cowlitz at Barrier Dam. Today I attempted to recreate that magic.
I hooked into two dark kings. Shortly after that a crew of dudes posted upstream from me and proceeded to ...
By: fish_4_coho
Posted: 10/1/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I must say first that if you don't like lots of people around you when fishing, the barrier dam is not a good choice. But if you are willing to accept the challenges and give fellow fisherman a littl...
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: Rickey
Posted: 9/29/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/20/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Barrier Dam: Mainly Wild Chinook, a few hatchery. Fish not feeding well, repetitive hookups to same fish by several on river. No hookups of Steelhead, some Cutthroat taken.
Blue Creek Hatchery: Mainl...
By: Toni
Posted: 7/22/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
The day started at 12:30am when someone rang my house and hung up. I was awake and couldn’t go back to sleep even though my alarm was set for 2:30am. So I got up and checked weather.com and did some o...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/28/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got to barrier around 445 in the am and began throwing line in the water. Left at 10. Me mad my buddy left with 2 steelis and 3 springers. #14 orange corkie.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/5/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Started at 5am at barrier. Everyone was hooking up. This time we got 3 steel and 1 springer. FISH ON
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 ...
By: snyderman399
Posted: 10/26/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
fished blue creek down to misssion. tough day again we got 4 jack silvers one 7lb silver a few cuttroats. i hooked into a big fish but lost it,acted like a big king,saw a bunch of kings roll but they ...
By: blurock
Posted: 6/15/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Took the boyfriends family out in the Willie for free fishing weekend on the Cowlitz at Bluecreek. We tried a few different things, yarnies mainly, and also drifted EZ-Eggs and some corkies and cheat...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/30/2012
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/30/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit up the cow pulled in about an 8 lb hen and saw a guy loose one. Nice fish but it was tore up from nets. Didn't see anything else but hiked away from the crowds. First summer run so far so Im prett...
By: KIDKOKANEE
Posted: 11/11/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My fishn partner informd me Barrier Dam Chinook hook ups were good so early there in the am we go hooked onto several bringing them in not so easy alot of people and the idea of calling out FISH ON an...
By: Ducks
Posted: 12/1/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
went fishing in Packwood below the bridge and caught 1 jack and lost 2 adults, used a green corky with black yarn and a 1/2 oz weight with a 4.5 ft leader
By: rgeeze
Posted: 1/22/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got to blue creek about 6:30 fished till 11 no fish only about 15 rigs and 4 boats in the parking lot. Guess I will go try the skook
By: Acefishon
Posted: 12/5/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well hit cowlitz today and was pretty slow only saw mabe 6 fish caught and I got one around noon 14 lbs winter run steelhead .I do have some bad news for cowlitz river starting this year there will be...
By: Brat Bonker
Posted: 12/27/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the last christmas night, the next day, and last night with only one show, a 31inch, 10-11lb glow balled cowlitz river winter steelhead. not only my first cowlitz winter steelhead but my first ...
By: Acefishon
Posted: 1/24/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
hit blue creek first light water high but good vis only four boaTs and mabe dozen guys on shore .it was bad zero fish for the boats all left by 10am except me and I should have ,there just not in rive...
By: blurock
Posted: 1/30/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Loaded up the truck and the boat, and headed down to the Cowlitz Saturday morning for a long weekend of fishing. And what an awesome weekend it was!
Got a late start on Saturday, and had an extr...
By: Toni
Posted: 4/3/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/2/2012
Hot Spots: 1
It was nice to be fishing with Mystical Legend Guide Phil Stephens again. We started about 7am and finished the day about 5. The river started out at 7000cfs and went up to 11000 while we were fishing...
By: Acefishon
Posted: 2/18/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
well hit cowlitz and skunked for only second time this winter been real slow for last three week guide boats getting few but they have five lines in front of the fish.it know matter it's slow there is...
By: blurock
Posted: 3/6/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Sitting around in the morning watching TV and the Cowlitz River Live cam with nothing else to do we decided to pack up real quick and head down for some time in the boat. (They were killing em on the...
By: Acefishon
Posted: 3/9/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
hit one one first pass nice12 lbs and tha was it for rest day still really slow only heard seen three others 15 boats 10 bank if had say wait few more weeks b run be in full swing
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 3/12/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/12/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Well, my personal slump for steeelhead continues, but at least one person in our group got a fish today. We hit Blue Creek and started fishing by 8am. Today's plan was to drift from BC down to Mission...