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By: Mike Carey
Posted: 12/19/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/19/2011
Hot Spots: 1
wow,water is down, dropped from 6,400 to 5,030 cfs. Nate and I fished from 8am to 2:15pm, pounded the launch drift and also wandered down below Blue Creek and side-drifted and pulled plugs. We saw a f...
By: c_saeteurn
Posted: 10/20/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/19/2014
Hot Spots: 0
hmmm. lewis county, barrier dam doesnt seem to be an fishing option on the location selection. Well Headed out Sunday with a couple friends this morning in search of some coho at barrier; since the re...
By: seattlesteban
Posted: 10/24/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Got my first fish out of the cowlitz!
Went down to Lamiglas HQ to get a replacement rod. Got to barrier dam about 1/2 hour after quitting time and got myself a spot in the rotation.
I had been h...
By: Fishman_Kuzan
Posted: 6/17/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Got out for a great day of springer fishing last week. Launched o dark thirty at the barrier access site. River was pretty desolate which was not what I expected. Flows had been dropped significant...
By: KIDKOKANEE
Posted: 6/22/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Me and a fishing buddy headed down to Oly to buy a Outboard from a classified ad got crossed by the seller enroute and had to kill some time to meet up ! SOOO we went fishn the Cowlitz Barrier Dam fis...
By: entropico
Posted: 6/24/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/21/2014
Hot Spots: 1
I don't post much, but I had not seen much from the Cowlitz River so I thought it would add some knowledge. Three of us arrived near the Barrier Dam at around 0730. I have not fished Chinnok before ...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 10/14/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Cowlitz at the barrier dam with some friends. We were standing in the water ready to go when the clock registered an hour before daylight. Started the day off drifting glow corkies and imme...
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...
By: djw0414
Posted: 11/10/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I was fortunate to be invited on a guided trip to the Cowlitz by a good friend who was picking up the tab. You gotta love that. We met at Barrier and launched around 7:30 am and started side-drifting ...
By: NITRO 175
Posted: 1/1/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/31/2014
Hot Spots: 3
My son and i went to the cowlitz yesterday his back from college for winter break and also work while his here trying to help me out,so we start fishing at the flats with jigs and bobber well i did he...
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: 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: 4/20/2014
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: 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: 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: Bassmaster76
Posted: 6/2/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Figured I'd make my way down to the Cowlitz today to get in on some springer action before the run was over. Woke up late and managed to get there by 9:45. Started off casting eggs under a float for...
By: Bassmaster76
Posted: 6/6/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/6/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Today was a perfect way to spend the last day of my staycation before returning to work. The sun was shining and there wasn't a ton of people since the number of fish has dwendled over the last week....
By: Mort
Posted: 7/25/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Wife and I spent the morning fishing the Cowlitz river. We put in at the Trout Hatchery launch. We started at first light and in just a few hours had our limit of 6 Steelhead drifting Salmon eggs alon...
By: RiverOtterGS
Posted: 3/16/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Today we launched at Blue Creek in the heavy fog and the water rising from 4,000 to just under 5,000 CFS,
and adding color quickly. Visibility around 6 feet going to about 3-4 feet by the end of the...
By: RiverOtterGS
Posted: 3/31/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Today myself and one client met at Blue Creek ramp. It was sunny with a storm front on the horizon. The forecast was for rain, hale, and thunderstorms by 11am. The river was clear and running at 4,000...
By: RiverOtterGS
Posted: 2/19/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Today I had two clients first time fishing for steelhead. Launched at Mission at 700 hrs and headed up river. Decided to put out a couple bait divers with sand shrimp and a 4.5 Mag lip plug on the 3rd...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 2/23/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/22/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I got to fish the beginnings of the Cowlitz “B” run with author Jason Brooks, and Gringo Pescador today. We were guests of Bruce Warren, FishingForFunGuideService.com. I could say it was a “guides day...
