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Posted: 12/20/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY,did i land my first stee-lee.im sorry for not posting these past several trips but i have been a crybaby getting skunked at steelhead fishing being that im new to targeting the...
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By: jens
Posted: 12/17/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with goin_postal early and fished below the boat launch. We found a nice opening to fish and we had very high expectations today since we coaxed our bosses into letting us have the day off. O...
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Posted: 12/16/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well was going to be in the area so brought my pole along. Hit up the Blue creek area, only was able to stay for an hour. No fish in that short time. Boat launch was busy, counted thirty bo...
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Posted: 12/15/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
hit up the cowlitz river blue creek boatlaunch at daybreak. hopped in the boat with my brother-in-law and best friend. . we fished all day shooting up and down the river mainly in the blue creek area....
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By: jtrapier
Posted: 12/10/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/6/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I know this report is late, I've been busy lately. My uncle and I hit up the Barrier on Sunday, and to our surprise silvers were rollin EVERYWHERE! The water was pretty high so we fished the hole up n...
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By: Jhuynh2
Posted: 12/3/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Not a whole lot of fish. No jumpers, lots of snags, need a boat to get to the other side where fish are. Fish on next time!
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Posted: 11/29/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/28/2009
Hot Spots: 0
made it to the cow and the boats werent doing to bad with the steelheads,they averaged 3 per boat,but the bank anglers had nothing.i tried new tactics with jigs and bobber all day and had nothing but ...
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By: donman
Posted: 11/14/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Yeah it was rough out there on the Cowlitz today. Very beautiful with the fog and sunrise, but thats it. Saw a guide service catch a nice chrome silver and we saw a couple of jumpers. Tried looking fo...
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By: jens
Posted: 11/14/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I met up with Jerry at daybreak, there were only 5 of us on the river a little after 6:15am when I approached the drift...It was cold out today, the action was even colder. I really had to work at my...
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By: jens
Posted: 11/8/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I arrived at Barrier Dam a little after 1p. Matt and I met up with Jerry who had been fishing all morning. He had a nice Chromer already banked, gorgeous fish. Using my hot color and set up I foun...
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By: gpc
Posted: 11/4/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the cow yesterday from 6am - 1pm. My buddy caught a small steelhead and hooked into 3 kings, landed a 20 -25lber. I still cant figure out this river, but I did have a couple fish on, so thats a...
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Posted: 11/2/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
went to the cow with all the walakes guys and more and had a blast.took home 2 silvs.i was to lazy to take pics.got home and crashed.that drive is horrible
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Posted: 11/1/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Great time down on the Cowlitz with the boys. Thanks guys for the good time. Once again I didn't walk away with a fish, but I sure did have a few good fights. The last of which took all my line. Jens...
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Posted: 11/1/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
First of all my wife took horrible pics of my catch today so not able to post it. Met with the usual group and more today. I arrived around 6am and on my second cast landed a nice chrome Silver, she...
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By: jens
Posted: 11/1/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I arrived at Barrier Dam a little before 5:30am. Met up with Bigsmooth and his bud Jeff. Goin_postal, Kinghunter, and Jerry were also fishing along side of us as well. I think numerous...
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Posted: 10/31/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/31/2009
Hot Spots: 0
not to bad today.had to work hard for these two.i landed the most and the biggest,not to brag or anything,but a total of about 8-9 coho was landed today in the drifting area.caught some kings as well....
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By: jens
Posted: 10/29/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I fished from 1-4 today. Not many people out fishing. The river was a lot higher compared to over the weekend. I found a nice spot amongst the line and had some nice battles with Kings. I switched...
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Posted: 10/26/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
What an awesome day of fishing, Jens was right about the hug pigs in the river, I don't care if they are boots, they were still fun to catch. Met Jens and Dwizzle early in the morning and on my secon...
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By: jens
Posted: 10/26/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Picked up D-wizzle by 4:15am with Kinghunter and Goin_postal not too far behind us. We wanted to get to the hotspot early for those reports of the b-run of Silvers. I had another buddy meet us ther...
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Posted: 10/25/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Made it down there with jens,d-wizzle,kinghunter and some others and started off hooking them but nothing landed.so after the longest time being wasted there i walked over to the spillway and there we...
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Posted: 10/25/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I've never seen so many big kings. Went to Barrier Dam and fished from 7am to 1:30pm. I didn't get any fish, but there are plenty of fish jumping. People around me had better luck. Saw five silver and...
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Posted: 10/23/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/23/2009
Hot Spots: 0
so the silvers must have made it threw the dam since the last couple days i decided to try eggs at the spillway since last time i was there everybody was nailing them.and when i got there it was reall...
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Posted: 10/20/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
good day at the river like always.no coho liked planed but i landed a 30lb+ chinook,i just cant figure out how to get the pic.jens took the pic at the river and emailed it to me but when i saved it it...
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By: jens
Posted: 10/20/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I took the day off today and my son begged to go. I'll let him play real hooky today. We met up with Goin_postal and hit the water right before 7am. The river wasn't too crowded compared to the w...
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Posted: 10/19/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Cowlitz on sunday..barrier dam to be more specific to try and catch some silvers and maybe play with some dark kings. Started around 6:25-6:30am and the line had already formed so me and my...
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