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By: igotfishon
Posted: 2/23/2024
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/15/2024
Hot Spots: 0
WDFW gave the go ahead couple days before February 15th for a smelt dip from 8AM to 1PM. We did the last minute call on the morning of the opener do drive to down to the Cowlitz River for the smelt di...
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: Trout_hunter
Posted: 10/29/2013
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/29/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Played a little hooky from work this afternoon and headed with a buddy up to the Blue Creek hatchery on the Cowlitz. Wading out and casting night crawlers, the fishing was hot immediately, well at le...
By: brandon_murray1
Posted: 11/3/2013
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/3/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Fished up by Blue Creek Hatchery. Only stayed for about an hour. Took a little bit of wandering till I found the fish. Ended up catching them right above the boat launch about twenty feet out using a ...
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: birdjazz10
Posted: 9/26/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the mouth of the Toutle for three days. They were rolling everywhere but no hang ups. I threw everything I had at them...different color corkies, different color Vibrax, jigs, Dick Nites...noth...
By: natetreat
Posted: 10/22/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I had an opportunity to fish down on the Cowlitz the other day, and it was a blast! Lots of fish, lots of hookups. Chinook and silvers both were willing to play!
We got our fish on eggs, drifted an...
By: linh.uw
Posted: 11/21/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Posting for Saturday Nov 14th, 2014
Hi everyone. I fished the Cowlitz River by the Barrier Dam last Saturday and it was an overall great day. Got to the river early, squeezed into a spot, and lin...
By: ilikefish
Posted: 11/27/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Took my son down to the cowlitz since it was not going to rain. Water was super high, but the clarity was good. We found some soft water and floated eggs. We both landed one beautiful coho but they we...
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: tele_maniac
Posted: 10/18/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/17/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Took a vacation day Friday and hit the Cowlitz river in pursuit of chrome. Had a great time! There were a lot of fishermen out for a weekday. Caught some nice fish, but had to work for them and put in...
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: seattledan
Posted: 11/1/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/24/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Weather: Mostly overcast and no rain. Heavy rains the previous day.
Location: Below barrier dam boat launch. I crossed the creek just below the boat launch and walked down the bank as far as I coul...
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: GRIZZ55
Posted: 7/5/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/22/2013
Hot Spots: 3
While fishing the Cowlitz River between the Cowlitz River Dam and Riffe Lake we caught many Kokane in the 10" to 16" range trolling the river with 00 dodgers and wedding ring spinners tipped with very...
By: HookEmBoy
Posted: 10/9/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/9/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Below Barrier Dam what a good day alot of fish and hookups
Hook up 1 coho a very nice size and land it as well as a king but it was a native. Lost 3 kings
Posted: 10/12/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/12/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The Cowlitz has not been bad for Coho and some Chinook. The biggest problem the river is low and clean. The good and bad news is we have a major storm coming in tonight and will last through the week...
By: seattlesteban
Posted: 10/18/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
2 years ago I fished the Cowlitz at Barrier Dam. Today I attempted to recreate that magic.
I hooked into two dark kings. Shortly after that a crew of dudes posted upstream from me and proceeded to ...
By: fish_4_coho
Posted: 11/6/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Finally got a chance to get back out fishing finally. Coho numbers have been steady on Cowlitz, but not very impressive. I did see a number of happy guys carrying out at least one fish. Good number o...
By: fish_4_coho
Posted: 11/11/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
With part of the morning and afternoon free, I headed for the barrier dam. Its close and convenient and a spot you can catch a fish from time to time. I wasn't expecting the number of people I saw wh...
By: Johnny Darter
Posted: 11/25/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/25/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went out fishing the last few days on the upper cowlitz by Packwood. Water was really clear but found some holes to catch a few coho from. Caught a quite a few jacks but finally reeled in this nice ...
By: snatchinglips
Posted: 11/12/2017
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/10/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Had to put my boat in the shop to have so work done at cascade marine, Big Dave squeezed me in, so I consider myself very luck. Ever fisherman knows that boat problem comes right when the fishing is b...
By: PatrickC
Posted: 12/15/2017
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/15/2017
Hot Spots: 0
So I left “early” around 6:15 and make the 1.5 hour south to fish barrier dam. Got there about 7:45-8:00 after a couple pit stops. Started twitching jigs for the first hour or so, saw one smaller coho...
