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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: Anonymous
Posted: 7/15/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
After stopping at the toutle on the way home my dad and i decided to stop by at the barier to see what was goin on there and to our surprise there were chromers stacked in all through out there so we ...
By: deezy38
Posted: 8/17/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished down at blue creek from 4am till about 9am there was a few people fishing I got this chromer at about 6:45 was the only hookup i saw while i was there good luck Tight Lines!!!!
By: natetreat
Posted: 9/29/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the cowlitz yesterday. After all of the fishing in these loacaql rivers it felt nice to have a familiar river. It was perfect. No snags in your drift, fishing rolling. Current was perfect and ...
By: spokey9
Posted: 10/2/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
went down to cowlitz to fish the pool at barrier dam, got there around 6am. started of glow balling til sunrise, hooked up 7 or 8 fish (i think they were all kings) but they kept snapping off. at sun...
By: NITRO 175
Posted: 7/4/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I went to the Barrier Dam Saturday and Sunday looking for some summer steelhead. That's exactly what we got too. On Saturday, we got there around 8am and left at 330pm. Fishing was slow, on...
By: natetreat
Posted: 5/29/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well, I had to take the Toyota to the dealer for "dealer maintenence" so I was in Chehalis and we decided to kill time by fishing the Cispus river. Spent most of the morning there looking for the fish...
By: dhokes
Posted: 11/11/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished @ barrier dam from about 10-1 before the rain came. Went 2 of 5. 1st was about a 12# wild coho in ok shape that I C&R. One guy wanted to keep it if I wasn't going to and I told him no, it was a...
By: chromerss
Posted: 11/13/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went back out with my dad and hooked into lots of fish. It wasn't as hot as sunday but still managed 15 or so hookups landing about 8 between the two of us. It is gettin really snaggy out there. Pops ...
By: Fish_Bait111397
Posted: 11/13/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I didnt get skunked today :) but, did not catch a salmon. Got out to Barrier dam at about 9:00 a.m. It was NOT combat fishing, there was maybe 20 people from the boat launch all the way up all day. W...
By: jbandurraga
Posted: 3/30/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at Blue Creek and headed downstream. Fished from 7am to 3pm. A lot of boats on the water, but saw limited fished caught. Had 5 fisherman on the boat, landed 5 fish. A nice 14lb chrome hen and...
By: NITRO 175
Posted: 4/3/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I got to the Cowlitz at around 645am. When we got to the usual fishing spot, water was to fast to fish so we ended up fishing other areas. Fishing was slow. It was about 945am and I hear my...
By: Rob G.
Posted: 4/18/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Cowlitz last Friday…fishin’ was slow in the morning and then picked up in the afternoon. I was in a guide boat, but the bankies seemed to be doing ok…. We limited out! Great day on the water
By: natetreat
Posted: 4/24/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to the Cowlitz to get in on the b-run action, which is slow at the moment. As with everytime you go out, when you talk to the guys on the river they will tell you, "should have been here las...
By: Toni
Posted: 10/9/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This is for Thursday 10-7 on the Cowlitz. We worked hard. Very hard.Well Phil always works hard.
I found out and Phil pointed out that I have TO SET THE HOOK! I have spent the last 7 months looking ...
By: flinginpooh
Posted: 5/30/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Water is high its fast the fishing is not ideal. But that's still ok means not so many people on the river. Started off walking to the mouth of bc. Talk about a waste of time. Water is way too hig...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/27/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
hit barier dam with a buddy,got there around noon.between us we walked outn with 8,bright to bright enough and released quite a few.Driftin eggs and corkie and yarn.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/2/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
One nice afternoon on the cowlitz just beautiful.Pulled up at the river at like 12:00am tons of people so i had to stick with combat fishing the cowlitz. Fish are every where. Hooked bout 35 fish land...
By: Jhuynh2
Posted: 11/5/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Not a lot of fish in the river, it is very high, blown out, very narrow space to fish at the dam with everyone, not many fish landed - too much gear lost for such a high river right now
By: phouc n phan
Posted: 12/11/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
went fishing down @ blue creek.today was really fun got to take a guided tour with ehli from xrods. got to try out there line of fishing poles freaking great poles! well balanced really light all arou...
By: spokey9
Posted: 12/12/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
got down to the cow around 5am, checked out barrier on a hunch but no fish and a couple of drunk guys got me to change up my game plan. shot over to blue creek and fish a ways down from the pipe. got...
By: Toni
Posted: 12/12/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/12/2010
Hot Spots: 1
I went to the Xrodz Demo Daze event and was on a sled operated by Matt and Kelly. It was windy at first but once it started to rain the wind died down. The river had gone down to about 12,000cfs. We g...
By: Bro-Rando
Posted: 3/6/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on the Cowlitz today for my birthday with my dad. My quarterlife crisis had me looking to catch my first steelhead and we were not disappointed. Launched out of Blue Creek around 7:20 and lef...
By: NITRO 175
Posted: 3/6/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I went fishing in the morning for a few hours and fished my usual spot. I had to fish different holes just to avoid the crowds but at about ten o'clock I had my only hit. At first I thought I was snag...
By: ingi
Posted: 3/11/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the cowlitz for the first time. I arrived at 5:15 from seattle and found a spot below the handicapped fishing spots at blue creek. I caught zero fish but I did have one fish on which I guess ...
