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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: 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...
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: 64omcangeler
Posted: 10/3/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
well for the past three days i have been goin to rocky point and i have not seen much get caught I'm fishing 5-12 feet from the shore i have seen steelhead salmon an jack all get caught there and for ...
By: 64omcangeler
Posted: 11/12/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I had some roe and i got a six foot leader and i got three casts into my morning and it was pouring down too and on my third cast fish an game came to me and asked for my LIC which was no biggy and th...
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: jetman221
Posted: 8/21/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/21/2008
Hot Spots: 0
went for three days there is a lot of fish there fished at blue creek caught a few but nothin to brag about was using divers and shrimp will be there next week
By: catchanything66
Posted: 11/17/2014
Species: Other
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Started early by boat launch at Blue creek by throwing glo corkies. Then went to floats and eggs and spinners. Nothing. Worked my way down the river to Blue creek hitting any number of open spots and ...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 3/1/2014
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Pacific Eulachon aka Columbia River Smelt Dip Netting
Friday I had some business to attend to in Longview, WA. I decided to check out the Cowlitz River to see if I could find any eulachon swimming ...
By: akfishgrl
Posted: 3/2/2014
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Drove down to the river to meet a couple friends to try our hand at smelt...
Was a fortunate day I must say! It took about 40 minutes to get our limits.
Was fun, some spots were hot and some the fi...
By: salmonlander
Posted: 3/9/2014
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Headed South for the Smelt dip on Saturday morning not really knowing what to expect as I had never experienced one. After a coaching and some general info from a great friend, and a borrowed net from...
By: flyfisherguy
Posted: 2/7/2016
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
What a fantastic day on the Cowlitz River near Longview fishing for smelt! The fish were so plentiful (and so was the crowd!) I'm sure that no one who was dipping went home empty handed. The DFW reall...
By: igotfishon
Posted: 3/6/2022
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/5/2022
Hot Spots: 0
I remember when I was young my mom and two older brothers took me smelt dip, and it was so fun. Now that I have two boys of my own what a great way to share the experience and passing on the tradition...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 3/5/2022
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/5/2022
Hot Spots: 0
All I can say is wow!!!!! I went to the Cowlitz river to try smelt dipping for the first time. I could not believe how many Washingtonian's participate in this fishery. We arrived at the river and it ...