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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: blurock
Posted: 9/17/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
What a fun day! We went out with Bruce Warren to learn the lower Cowlitz and have a fun day as well as hopefully catch some fish. Got up at 2:30 to meet at 5:30AM in Castle Rock.
We fished the ge...
By: blurock
Posted: 9/18/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I was suppose to go to the Potholes this weekend for some Walleye, Bass, and Trout action, but it didn't happen. So we packed up and headed for the Cowlitz instead.
Saturday we fished Blue Creek ...
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: SoDakboy
Posted: 9/17/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This is my first time side drifting for salmon, so if I got the rating wrong whoops. Went out with guide Mike Mike was right on time and then we followed him to the Castle Rock boat ramp. Got the boat...
By: KIDKOKANEE
Posted: 11/11/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My fishn partner informd me Barrier Dam Chinook hook ups were good so early there in the am we go hooked onto several bringing them in not so easy alot of people and the idea of calling out FISH ON an...
By: Ducks
Posted: 12/1/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
went fishing in Packwood below the bridge and caught 1 jack and lost 2 adults, used a green corky with black yarn and a 1/2 oz weight with a 4.5 ft leader
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: 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: 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: Anonymous
Posted: 6/30/2012
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/30/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit up the cow pulled in about an 8 lb hen and saw a guy loose one. Nice fish but it was tore up from nets. Didn't see anything else but hiked away from the crowds. First summer run so far so Im prett...
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: Anonymous
Posted: 9/29/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
what a night. just got back from another outing at the mouth of the toutle. mostly silvers now. a few kings but they are turned. i recomend goin with a large group of people that you can take over the...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/6/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Blue Creek on Saturday. Caught this 11 lb. Coho and my buddy caught this 12 lb Steelhead. We also caught another summer run Steely and two more Coho. One was a Native the other was lost at the...
By: NITRO 175
Posted: 12/3/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I went to fish the cowlitz today got up @4:00 o'clock left the house thinking it was going to be a nice drive only to find out by the time we got to olympia,my truck was sliping and sliding...
By: Fishing rules
Posted: 12/28/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Blue creek - somewhere in neighborhood of 50 people. 1/2 to 1/4 fish per person. two of us left with 4. Well above average for us.
By: djw0414
Posted: 12/12/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Took a trip to the Cowlitz on Sunday with my buddy and his drift boat. We put in at Blue Creek and used an electric motor to work the areas above the boat launch. We drift fished with eggs and sandshr...
