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By: KRH
Posted: 3/8/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Been fishing near Rochester for over a week now and it seems like the fish are coming in pretty good now. Been catching them mainly on jigs, and a few on spin glows. Seems like they like the orange/re...
By: majorgbailey
Posted: 10/11/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at the 107 bridge ramp at 5pm after doing nothing in Grays Harbor. Went upstream 10 mins. Drift fished with eggs near the bank. Hooked up at 5:45pm. After a healthy fight, netted and then ...
By: Stuffy
Posted: 12/5/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Put in about 10am yesterday, but shoulda listened to Guides from Steelie U to not waste time on the water for another week. I was also expecting to get rained on all day, and was upset it didn't rain ...
By: Stuffy
Posted: 12/21/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/20/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Great day, and got 3 nice fish but missed a limit. Nice bright fat Coho hatchery hens. The weather was a pretty nasty, breezy and plenty of WA liquid sunshine. The fish are there but spread out. We us...
By: Stuffy
Posted: 12/21/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/17/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Had great time. 4 for 4, 3 huge bucks and nice hen, all hatchery. Limited by 11am. Weather was nice and only a couple sprinkles on us. Work the gravel bar edges in the shallow areas to catch the fish ...
By: Stuffy
Posted: 1/1/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
What a day. Picked up 6 nice Coho a couple days before the season ended.
My friend Tony and his 10 year old daughter Megan for her first salmon trip. went along. On the way down from Oakville laun...
By: Stuffy
Posted: 1/18/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/17/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Great day. My partner and I wanted one more Coho outing on the Chehalis. This time my partner's girlfriend came to enjoy a nice day on a river and try to catch her first fish. We hit several holes but...
By: plabarge
Posted: 10/21/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great day on the Chehalis, 1st time on the river, with the nets in and no recent rain to bring a batch of new fish in we had no idea what kind of day to expect. We had to work hard to find them...
By: steevano61
Posted: 1/16/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/15/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Pretty slow fishing still. Between 2 drift boats and 4 of us we had a half dozen take downs (all on eggs) and landed 1 native hen 10lbs that we released. Tried pulling plugs, floating jigs and tossi...
By: Blake's dad
Posted: 11/22/2018
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/22/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Got to love the Fall colors Happy Thanksgiving
By: rseas
Posted: 10/19/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
On Saturday I had to drop a kid off in Grand Mound for the day so instead of driving back and forth from Skagit County I decided to spend the day exploring the area and pestering the local fish popula...
By: hogstwo1
Posted: 9/11/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
brother ed and I fished from shore at friends landing using spinners. no luck. if bob r is fishing the Chehalis. please give me some good advise on when to fish the brackish water.
By: majorgbailey
Posted: 9/19/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/18/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Launched at Montesano ramp on an outgoing tide. Went downstream and trolled flashers and herring. There were about 20 boats in this section all trolling with herring. No one was reporting any action....
By: Fishman_Kuzan
Posted: 11/1/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Got a chance to fish the Chehalis while visiting family for my birthday and conditions allowed. Fished from 730 to 330. Fished spinners and plugs in holding/frog water early and picked up fish throug...
Posted: 9/30/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/29/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I say average day because I was fishing for silvers but only catching kings twitchin'. 3 kings in 1hour of fishing all with the same hand tied 1/4oz cerise/pink jig and 8# line.. I don't know how I di...
By: Ryan_1
Posted: 2/8/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to the Chehalis rive and fished from 8 AM to 1PM and there was about 8 others fishing with all different baits but not one fish was caught. Also was very cold.
By: mauifisher
Posted: 10/11/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the river at the spot behind walmart around 1030. There were a couple guys down there fishing and one had two nice bucks already. I decided on my trusty #5 blue fox, silver blade with chartuese...
By: hogstwo1
Posted: 9/18/2013
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Brother Ed and I fished the Chehalis for diamondsides with no luck. bait shop out of sandshrimp again, so had to go with squid. no takers. was going to fish for salmon, but nothing around the upper r...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/7/2012
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
First Stergeon ever of 33 inches needed five more inches great fight though released for another fisher no more bites for the rest of the day going at it again tomorrow.
By: Nelly1
Posted: 10/27/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Wagonbrnr and I launched at Cosmopolis before dark.
Did not look good as we were the only ones at the launch at 6:30am.
We trolled a fish flash and herring until noon, had one 2lb shaker whole time...
By: 'OL GREY DOG
Posted: 9/28/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
had some biz out west....noticed quite a few bankies and somes jets on the drive out.....so i stop bye 1 of my lil hidey holes on the way bk....i "KNOW your not supposed to tell every 1 where th...
By: Blake's dad
Posted: 11/20/2018
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/17/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Lots of fun had to find the clipped ones.