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By: lhouch
Posted: 10/29/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/29/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I didn't have any luck. Seems everyone around me was catching old beat Kings. Fished for about three hours. Enjoyed being out but not getting skunked.
By: gpc
Posted: 4/28/2008
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fish the Cowlitz all weekend. It was pretty slow especially for us. We ended up catching about a dozen really small steelhead on jigs and blue foxes. At blue creek we saw a couple but didn't get any b...
By: jens
Posted: 3/30/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My son, Kinghunter and I trekked to Blue Creek. We heard many good stories about how hot the fishing has been, we were very excited when we arrived. We hiked about 3/4 mile down river to the right o...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/5/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished down by blue creek all afternoon. The steelbeasts were not cooperating casted till my arm was sore and packed up around dark. Got back to car grabbed my camera flash and headed 100 yards to the...
By: Flycast
Posted: 4/5/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Barrier Dam for a few hours on the way home. Fished in between the upper pool and the launch. Primarily corky/yarn in various colors - no bites..... Jig & bobber for a bit - no bites. Saw one fish...
By: kinghunter
Posted: 4/6/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the Cow with my two kids in around 11am. It was not crowded, it was a beautiful day. I actually got sun burn on my arms and face. The kids had a great time also. Well I fished alittle bit ...
By: hottshott206
Posted: 4/18/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
so me and flipboy206 and his brother went to the cowlitz today...got there round 530ish and started casting at around 545ish... a couple of fish on but fouled hooks so all released... at arounf 730 on...
By: Toni
Posted: 7/9/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
At 1:30am (7-08-09) the most instantaneous value for this river was 2540cfs. That is very low. I had booked a trip with Mystical Legends Guide Service for myself and my son. My son didn’t want to go....
By: NITRO 175
Posted: 3/22/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I went down to the Cowlitz river (by blue creek hatchery) yesterday for about 4hours. When we got there around 07:00 am, the parking lot was already packed with trucks and boat trailers. I ...
By: Toni
Posted: 3/26/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I got to the river around 7am. It was cold but not freezing. I fished upriver from the Blue Creek boat launch. I used drift rigs with pink corkies, bobber and jigs, eggs or shrimp. I didn’t get anyt...
By: goin_postal
Posted: 10/16/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
and another good day fishing.a little cold and rainy but nothing wrong with that.this is the fish i kept and there is a lot more being landed the whole time i was there.the first fish i hooked was the...
By: wescooper2003
Posted: 10/18/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Did very good caught 3 kings, and 4 silvers, great night of fishing but thing when to crap. We were at the mouth of the Toutle somebody broke in to my SUV stole bunch of fishing gear and personal ite...
By: ivebenfishin
Posted: 10/19/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Cowlitz on sunday..barrier dam to be more specific to try and catch some silvers and maybe play with some dark kings.
Started around 6:25-6:30am and the line had already formed so me and my...
By: goin_postal
Posted: 10/20/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
good day at the river like always.no coho liked planed but i landed a 30lb+ chinook,i just cant figure out how to get the pic.jens took the pic at the river and emailed it to me but when i saved it it...
By: goin_postal
Posted: 10/23/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/23/2009
Hot Spots: 0
so the silvers must have made it threw the dam since the last couple days i decided to try eggs at the spillway since last time i was there everybody was nailing them.and when i got there it was reall...
By: goin_postal
Posted: 10/25/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Made it down there with jens,d-wizzle,kinghunter and some others and started off hooking them but nothing landed.so after the longest time being wasted there i walked over to the spillway and there we...
By: kinghunter
Posted: 10/26/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
What an awesome day of fishing, Jens was right about the hug pigs in the river, I don't care if they are boots, they were still fun to catch. Met Jens and Dwizzle early in the morning and on my secon...
By: goin_postal
Posted: 10/31/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/31/2009
Hot Spots: 0
not to bad today.had to work hard for these two.i landed the most and the biggest,not to brag or anything,but a total of about 8-9 coho was landed today in the drifting area.caught some kings as well....
By: kinghunter
Posted: 11/1/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
First of all my wife took horrible pics of my catch today so not able to post it. Met with the usual group and more today. I arrived around 6am and on my second cast landed a nice chrome Silver, she...
By: Acefishon
Posted: 7/8/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well against better judgement I went to Cowlitz got there little late 6:00am and belive it or not everyone was catching fish from 5-5:30am and then went real bad fished to noon not a single fish only ...
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: 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: 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: 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.
