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By: HookEmBoy
Posted: 9/18/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/17/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Hook 10 kings all together, landed 4 and 3 came off the hook and the other 3 snap my leader line so it was a very good day for me just below the barrier dam.
By: Scheindogg
Posted: 8/27/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/27/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went with my dad today. Got to barrier dam by 645, lines in water by 7.
Water was higher than Tuesday but still quite low.
Hooked into one around 8, still a novice fisherman I was walking him down t...
By: 66kma
Posted: 8/24/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/20/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Water was on drop. Bite was on up until midnight. Lost 5, got 2. One of my best fishing outing. Met with cool, nice people.
Learn a lot. Later is going to be better. Love that fishery. Just found out...
By: Scheindogg
Posted: 8/23/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/23/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Quite the interesting day... As a side note before I start with the rest of this, know that I just got back into fishing those year for the first time since being a little kid so therefore I'm quite t...
By: fish_4_coho
Posted: 8/23/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/22/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Back home, with a week of vacation left. Went to the barrier dam to see what's happening. Actually got to fish the hatchery intake swimming pool (I just made that up-but that's what it feels like I a...
By: dad3lb
Posted: 8/23/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
spend a day at the blue creek, saw some silver caught and a few steelhead. used black and orange corky on a drift. caught this beauty. beautiful day and had a bit of warden encounter, not towards me...
By: Snoop
Posted: 8/18/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
After an awesome time re learning this river after 12 or so years the day before I made another 2.5 hour drive to blue creek. This time I took the more direct trail to the bank where all the action w...
By: Snoop
Posted: 8/18/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
12 years ago as an 8th or 9th grader I fished the Cowlitz River with my dad. I haven't been back since, and avoided it because of the horror stories of combat fishing, and the long drive. With every...
By: Scheindogg
Posted: 8/11/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got to blue creek trout hatchery area around 630, lines in water by 645. Water was super low today for the cowlitz. I had to walk a solid 35 yards out into the river and was still only at my waist. Tr...
By: dad3lb
Posted: 8/8/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
First time steelhead fishing and first time at the Cowlitz, fished the blue creek below the dam and used corky and yarn. 0900 that I hooked a good size hatchery steelie 9 lb plus or minus . put up ...
By: fish_4_coho
Posted: 7/27/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/27/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Fished for 2 hours in the evening saw 7 summer steelhead landed, all super chrome bright. Good time other then the one fisherman who set the hook at the end of every drift, and snagged all but one of ...
By: fish_4_coho
Posted: 7/10/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/24/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Took advantage of an early day of work and ran down to my favorite summer steelhead spot on the Cowlitz. My 5th cast something took off with my two corkies and after a pretty good tussle finally wore...
By: catchanything66
Posted: 6/1/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I was there early this time with my best friend and his son. Got there early again. This time I didn't hear anything coming from the dam area or even a whaa hoo. Fish on. Nothing this time. My friend ...
By: catchanything66
Posted: 6/1/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/27/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Started early just at sunrise. Fished for about 3 hours with nothing on the hook. Only 2 fish being landed were up by the dam. Most likely they were using eggs under a float. Seen a number of floats g...
By: 4n6fisher
Posted: 4/12/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The day started off with high hopes, as we were walking in about 6:15 we see some guy walking out with six fish for him and his buddy. We jumped into their spot thinking it would be a good location, ...
By: pblazer76
Posted: 2/17/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/13/2016
Hot Spots: 0
River was high but got one fishing jig tipped with shrimp. I didnt have a scale but im guessing it was 14-16lb range. Fishing was slow but i was happy to get one when most weren't.
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: sgreni
Posted: 11/4/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/26/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Well we braved the rain to do the Barrier to Blue creek float in the drift boat with my buddy Brandon who had a couple days off from the Army. It started out pretty sloppy wet, but we weren't deterred...
By: Jhuynh2
Posted: 10/26/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
no one fishing, only saw 4 to 5 brown old boot kings, no fish sad to see this year, went home to the Skokomish and hit 2 chums!
By: lhouch1
Posted: 10/25/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/24/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Brenda and I went to the Cowlitz yesterday ...long day. Left Puyallup at about 430 am. Stopped by subway for sandwiches for lunch then headed to Blue Creek. After about a 90 minute drive we got the...
By: nascarrich64
Posted: 9/11/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Took a day to fish the Cowlitz River. Left Castle Rock boat launch motoring down river working different areas side drifting eggs/shrimp. By the end of the day we had 21 hookups, 15 large Chinook/Coho...
By: RiverOtterGS
Posted: 7/30/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/30/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Cowlitz river today with two clients husband a wife team from Oregon. The water was on the rise over the past two days it has gone from 3,000 to 6,000 cfs which brought in some fresh fish a...
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: 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: 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...