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By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/28/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the cowlitz with our guide Rob for the first time ever. Had 2 buddies with me and we only managed 1 steelhead each and we had to work 9 hours to get those! Water flow was 5800. Back-trolled slots ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 1/2/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/2/2012
Hot Spots: 3
OK, last trip to the Cowlitz river for this winter steelhead season (I think!). natetreat and I hit the water with a ton of other anglers at 7:30am and started side drifting the upper blue creek drift...
By: bestee1
Posted: 1/12/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished blue creek yesterday for the first time. I was fishing just a little downstream from the boat launch area. I was there for probably 5 hours fishing with a float and jig and eggs. had zero luck ...
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: 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: 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...
By: kevin14
Posted: 3/16/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
First time on the Cowlitz and What a great day we had. It was my dad, my friend Austin, and I fishing with Bonner Daniels and we hooked our limit of chrome steelies before lunch. We were side drifting...
By: blurock
Posted: 3/17/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
(Sorry for the late report, having some computer issues)
Little bit of a late start last weekend, forgetting about daylight savings, but not bad. Just Dad and me this weekend, got on the river and...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/26/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
50 guys at least at blue creek. Saw 10-15 fish taken, couple nice size fish. Started at 7:30 or so and left 1:30pm with my two #11 #7.
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 3/27/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/26/2012
Hot Spots: 3
The Cowlitz was in good shape Monday, with river flows at 8,300 csf for the day. I met up with Gringo Pescador and Nate Treat for one last shot at the “B” run steelies. Conditions were upper 40s to lo...
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: 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: 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: 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: NITRO 175
Posted: 5/30/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I were going to start out at Blue Creek Area but we ran into some friends that were camping there and said it was dead because the water was too high and told us to try Barrier Dam. So we h...
By: Gringo Pescador
Posted: 4/29/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with another WaLaker and headed south to the Cowlitz hoping for late B-run Steel or Early Springers. Started at Blue Creek around 7am and fished our way down to the old creek and back, threw e...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/5/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
fished blue creek down to mission.fished for 9hrs.nothing. made one last drift above the boat launch and finally hooked into one,and would'nt you know it, lost it,talked to a bunch of guys,boaters and...
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...
