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By: blurock
Posted: 3/17/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
(Sorry for the late report, having some computer issues)
Little bit of a late start last weekend, forgetting about daylight savings, but not bad. Just Dad and me this weekend, got on the river and...
By: kevin14
Posted: 3/16/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
First time on the Cowlitz and What a great day we had. It was my dad, my friend Austin, and I fishing with Bonner Daniels and we hooked our limit of chrome steelies before lunch. We were side drifting...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 3/12/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/12/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Well, my personal slump for steeelhead continues, but at least one person in our group got a fish today. We hit Blue Creek and started fishing by 8am. Today's plan was to drift from BC down to Mission...
By: Acefishon
Posted: 3/9/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
hit one one first pass nice12 lbs and tha was it for rest day still really slow only heard seen three others 15 boats 10 bank if had say wait few more weeks b run be in full swing
By: blurock
Posted: 3/6/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Sitting around in the morning watching TV and the Cowlitz River Live cam with nothing else to do we decided to pack up real quick and head down for some time in the boat. (They were killing em on the...
By: Acefishon
Posted: 2/18/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
well hit cowlitz and skunked for only second time this winter been real slow for last three week guide boats getting few but they have five lines in front of the fish.it know matter it's slow there is...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/5/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
2 for 2..... second on a b.c. steel spoon... 14 lbs, 34 in...... looks like the cowcow should be pretty sweet this year
By: blurock
Posted: 1/30/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Loaded up the truck and the boat, and headed down to the Cowlitz Saturday morning for a long weekend of fishing. And what an awesome weekend it was!
Got a late start on Saturday, and had an extr...
By: Acefishon
Posted: 1/24/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
hit blue creek first light water high but good vis only four boaTs and mabe dozen guys on shore .it was bad zero fish for the boats all left by 10am except me and I should have ,there just not in rive...
By: bestee1
Posted: 1/12/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished blue creek yesterday for the first time. I was fishing just a little downstream from the boat launch area. I was there for probably 5 hours fishing with a float and jig and eggs. had zero luck ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 1/2/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/2/2012
Hot Spots: 3
OK, last trip to the Cowlitz river for this winter steelhead season (I think!). natetreat and I hit the water with a ton of other anglers at 7:30am and started side drifting the upper blue creek drift...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/28/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the cowlitz with our guide Rob for the first time ever. Had 2 buddies with me and we only managed 1 steelhead each and we had to work 9 hours to get those! Water flow was 5800. Back-trolled slots ...
By: Fishing rules
Posted: 12/28/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Blue creek - somewhere in neighborhood of 50 people. 1/2 to 1/4 fish per person. two of us left with 4. Well above average for us.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/22/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great day freezing at the disability hole at bluecreek. started about 10 am and was done in an hour. cork w/jig-black and red tipped with fresh shrimp. My first steelhead and it was cool @ 12 lb...
By: RiverChromeGS
Posted: 12/20/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the cowlitz monday in the sled. Backtrolled bait at blue creek and below in a few lower holes. limited all 3 people, and missed 4 other massive takedowns. Went 6 for 10. Hit one from shore the nex...
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: djw0414
Posted: 12/12/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Took a trip to the Cowlitz on Sunday with my buddy and his drift boat. We put in at Blue Creek and used an electric motor to work the areas above the boat launch. We drift fished with eggs and sandshr...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 12/5/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/5/2011
Hot Spots: 3
OK, so the morning started out a little rough as my boat collided with another boat that was pulling plugs. What can I say, I'm out of practise. My apologies and fortunately no damage done.
Nate an...
By: NITRO 175
Posted: 12/3/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I went to fish the cowlitz today got up @4:00 o'clock left the house thinking it was going to be a nice drive only to find out by the time we got to olympia,my truck was sliping and sliding...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/6/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Blue Creek on Saturday. Caught this 11 lb. Coho and my buddy caught this 12 lb Steelhead. We also caught another summer run Steely and two more Coho. One was a Native the other was lost at the...
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: spokey9
Posted: 9/15/2011
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Saw the number of fish the hatchery got back last week so my buddy and i shot down to barrier to see what we could do. Got there around 5:30am and rigged up. Made my first cast about 5:50 or so with a...
By: Acefishon
Posted: 7/8/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well against better judgement I went to Cowlitz got there little late 6:00am and belive it or not everyone was catching fish from 5-5:30am and then went real bad fished to noon not a single fish only ...
By: Acefishon
Posted: 7/6/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well hit Cowlitz 5am-3pm not even a bite it really slow the stupid power company keeps messing with river levels up down drastically started day at 6630 ended at 8900 major up swing and day before wa...
By: NITRO 175
Posted: 7/4/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I went to the Barrier Dam Saturday and Sunday looking for some summer steelhead. That's exactly what we got too. On Saturday, we got there around 8am and left at 330pm. Fishing was slow, on...