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By: Mike Carey
Posted: 3/7/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished all day with Gringo Pescador, his brother Gene, and friend Jim. We launched out of Toledo at 7am. I had to remind myself that this was Saturday as there were no rigs at the launch, unreal! As w...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 3/8/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Day 2 of our weekend fishing adventure. This time gringo and I fished with his friend Dan. Plan was the same, side drifting or bobber dogging the area around Mission Bar to downriver of Toledo. We l...
By: TahoeFisherman
Posted: 3/11/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/6/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on the Cowlitz on Friday. Lots of sleds on the river, no suprise there, so we ended up hitting most of the gravel brs below blue creek. Landed one hatchery about 6 or seven pounds but saw many...
By: fish_4_coho
Posted: 7/10/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/24/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Took advantage of an early day of work and ran down to my favorite summer steelhead spot on the Cowlitz. My 5th cast something took off with my two corkies and after a pretty good tussle finally wore...
By: nascarrich64
Posted: 9/11/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Took a day to fish the Cowlitz River. Left Castle Rock boat launch motoring down river working different areas side drifting eggs/shrimp. By the end of the day we had 21 hookups, 15 large Chinook/Coho...
By: lhouch1
Posted: 10/25/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/24/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Brenda and I went to the Cowlitz yesterday ...long day. Left Puyallup at about 430 am. Stopped by subway for sandwiches for lunch then headed to Blue Creek. After about a 90 minute drive we got the...
By: Scheindogg
Posted: 8/23/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/23/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Quite the interesting day... As a side note before I start with the rest of this, know that I just got back into fishing those year for the first time since being a little kid so therefore I'm quite t...
By: 66kma
Posted: 8/24/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/20/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Water was on drop. Bite was on up until midnight. Lost 5, got 2. One of my best fishing outing. Met with cool, nice people.
Learn a lot. Later is going to be better. Love that fishery. Just found out...
By: Scheindogg
Posted: 8/27/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/27/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went with my dad today. Got to barrier dam by 645, lines in water by 7.
Water was higher than Tuesday but still quite low.
Hooked into one around 8, still a novice fisherman I was walking him down t...
By: HookEmBoy
Posted: 9/18/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/17/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Hook 10 kings all together, landed 4 and 3 came off the hook and the other 3 snap my leader line so it was a very good day for me just below the barrier dam.
By: fish_4_coho
Posted: 9/25/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/24/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the barrier dam after reading reports of a few salmon being kept, including some coho on the wdfw sw Washington fish report. I was hoping the rain might entice some fresh fish upstream, but I w...
By: dad3lb
Posted: 8/8/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
First time steelhead fishing and first time at the Cowlitz, fished the blue creek below the dam and used corky and yarn. 0900 that I hooked a good size hatchery steelie 9 lb plus or minus . put up ...
By: Scheindogg
Posted: 8/11/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got to blue creek trout hatchery area around 630, lines in water by 645. Water was super low today for the cowlitz. I had to walk a solid 35 yards out into the river and was still only at my waist. Tr...
By: Snoop
Posted: 8/18/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
12 years ago as an 8th or 9th grader I fished the Cowlitz River with my dad. I haven't been back since, and avoided it because of the horror stories of combat fishing, and the long drive. With every...
By: Snoop
Posted: 8/18/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
After an awesome time re learning this river after 12 or so years the day before I made another 2.5 hour drive to blue creek. This time I took the more direct trail to the bank where all the action w...
By: dad3lb
Posted: 8/23/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
spend a day at the blue creek, saw some silver caught and a few steelhead. used black and orange corky on a drift. caught this beauty. beautiful day and had a bit of warden encounter, not towards me...
By: natetreat
Posted: 4/20/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/19/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I'm having too much fun guys. Fishing has been great. Springers are picking up, but steelhead are where it's at. Man it's been so much fun.
A couple of days in the last week we've had double digit...
By: MarkFromSea
Posted: 4/27/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I went steelhead fishing on the Cowlitz River. The rain was off and on all day but the bite was consistent. We got into some prime locations where we had multiple hookups on steelhead and chinook. E...
By: KIDKOKANEE
Posted: 5/8/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Well I m on Vacation Missed the Lake Wilderness Opener to many boat trls got turned away fished lake Meridian and my fire extinguisher pin fell out and shot off all over big mess still cleaning it up ...
By: mizm05
Posted: 4/10/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/9/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Blue Creek because we heard B run steel had been pretty active. It was dead. Well, I should say it was dead anywhere up river from the actual Blue Creek. We didn't get the inside scoop from a v...
By: NITRO 175
Posted: 4/13/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/12/2014
Hot Spots: 3
started at the dam after a few hours fishing there of no fish I decided to head down to blue creek got to the parking lot and there was hardly any parking so I park above the boat ramp and started fis...
By: natetreat
Posted: 4/16/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/14/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The Cowlitz steelhead have been great. There are lots of fish, and they're willing to play! Springers are slowly showing themselves, but the area around blue creek and below has been pretty darn good....
By: natetreat
Posted: 4/6/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing on the Cowlitz for springers is starting to pick up! The B-run steelhead are in. We were searching for springers yesterday from Barrier to Blue Creek. Springers are a little slow, but they are...
By: salmonbarry
Posted: 3/15/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/14/2014
Hot Spots: 0
25 years ago on March 14th my father passed away also yesterday would have been his 98th birthday, so in honor on his memory took yesterday day off to do what he loved best, to go fishing!! He introd...
By: rmerikle
Posted: 11/3/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
All times are before time change since I refused to switch time until after fishing. Left home at 3:30AM and arrived barrier dam @ 5:30AM. Foggy Dark, but darn glad I got there so early. Got a great s...