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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: 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: billyl
Posted: 8/7/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
River appear to be low. Tried a fly first part of the day. Switch to spin rod and spinner. One hookup.
By: Fish-or-man?
Posted: 8/13/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Launched out of Blue Creek. Fished dawn to 10am. Went 1/1, a 7 pound steelhead. Back trolling red and purple brined shrimp behind hotshots. Bite was off-- sun on the water early, very low clear water,...
By: usarmyret
Posted: 8/27/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Cowlitz River at the Blue Creek Trout Hatchery, launched the boat at 0545. Me another and his 10 year old son. With in 1 hour the "Son" boated a 14LBS Steel Head, 45 Min later "Father" boated...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Smoke
Posted: 1/16/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
What a day to remember......spent the night in my truck at Blue Creek Launch, did i mention the lack of sleep i got trying to get compfortable in the front seat with sub-freezing temps. at 7:00 am I s...
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: 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: 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: rgeeze
Posted: 8/6/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Awesome day on the cowlitz gotta fish with dad and got us a summer run 4 hours of fishing
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: Burnside
Posted: 2/21/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
First time on the Cowlitz today. Didn't catch any steelhead but, hooked into an early springer (my first king ever) which put up an awesome fight! Got it to the net and the plug tangled in it and Mr. ...
By: akfishgrl
Posted: 3/2/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the Blue creek hatchery. Got a couple bites and watched a spey caster catch a really nice bright ...maybe ~8-10lber on a streamer. Saw another two separate boats catch one each. This was fro...
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: AJFishdude
Posted: 3/27/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Cowlitz today from the bank by the Blue Creek launch. Started fishing at about 6:30am or so and left around 9:30am. Not a lot happening for us or the other guys on the bank at the spot. I d...
By: Bay wolf
Posted: 4/6/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I got the pleasure of fishing with Nate and his Father yesterday. We had a great trip! I lost a couple of fish ( my own fault) and we got that really nice Steel.
We had a great time and some really...
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...
