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By: 4n6fisher
Posted: 6/1/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Heading back home after the skunk at Scanewa, I dropped the wife of a Mayfield lake to cruise around on the pontoon boat, while I went down to barrier dam to scope out the scene. Maybe just because i...
By: c_saeteurn
Posted: 5/28/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/28/2015
Hot Spots: 0
headed down to barrier early this morning. got there around 3am, waited on the banks at 4am. good crowd. Was able to hook and land one 15 lbs buck. bright, very oily springer. had a 11foot rod and cou...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 5/21/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
So, this is a skunk report, but I got a lot of good info in the process and have decided to share with you all. Also, this report has absolutely nothing to do with fishing the barrier dam, so if you a...
By: RiverOtterGS
Posted: 3/31/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Today myself and one client met at Blue Creek ramp. It was sunny with a storm front on the horizon. The forecast was for rain, hale, and thunderstorms by 11am. The river was clear and running at 4,000...
By: RiverOtterGS
Posted: 3/16/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Today we launched at Blue Creek in the heavy fog and the water rising from 4,000 to just under 5,000 CFS,
and adding color quickly. Visibility around 6 feet going to about 3-4 feet by the end of the...
By: Elcalamar
Posted: 3/16/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing with my buddy yesterday on the Cowlitz. took our time and launched late, which was awesome since we completely missed the rain. We launched at blue creek and boy were there a lot of boats...
By: TahoeFisherman
Posted: 3/11/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/6/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on the Cowlitz on Friday. Lots of sleds on the river, no suprise there, so we ended up hitting most of the gravel brs below blue creek. Landed one hatchery about 6 or seven pounds but saw many...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 3/8/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Day 2 of our weekend fishing adventure. This time gringo and I fished with his friend Dan. Plan was the same, side drifting or bobber dogging the area around Mission Bar to downriver of Toledo. We l...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 3/7/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished all day with Gringo Pescador, his brother Gene, and friend Jim. We launched out of Toledo at 7am. I had to remind myself that this was Saturday as there were no rigs at the launch, unreal! As w...
By: RiverOtterGS
Posted: 3/5/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/5/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Cowlitz river today a chilly start of 33 degrees with 4 guys and a 16 year old young man about to catch his first and soon to be hard to ever beat 18lb hatchery steelhead.
The water was co...
By: RiverOtterGS
Posted: 2/27/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Woke up to the sound of rain pounding on my roof, oh boy going to be a wet day on the river. Managed to roll out and after a shot of coffee I was on my way to meet my guys on the Cowlitz at Blue cree...
By: RiverOtterGS
Posted: 2/26/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Today I fished with one client for just a half day trip. We had a good day getting 3 steelhead. One steelhead was a wild fish so we released it unharmed. The other two steelhead one buck and one hen. ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 2/23/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/22/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I got to fish the beginnings of the Cowlitz “B” run with author Jason Brooks, and Gringo Pescador today. We were guests of Bruce Warren, FishingForFunGuideService.com. I could say it was a “guides day...
By: RiverOtterGS
Posted: 2/19/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Today I had two clients first time fishing for steelhead. Launched at Mission at 700 hrs and headed up river. Decided to put out a couple bait divers with sand shrimp and a 4.5 Mag lip plug on the 3rd...
By: brycep
Posted: 2/8/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Floated from Blue Creek to Mission, Water was running high at about 13,000 CFS and dark. There has been a lot of rain over the past couple of days. Was really intending to go to the coast but the H...
By: NITRO 175
Posted: 1/1/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/31/2014
Hot Spots: 3
My son and i went to the cowlitz yesterday his back from college for winter break and also work while his here trying to help me out,so we start fishing at the flats with jigs and bobber well i did he...
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: 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: catchanything66
Posted: 11/17/2014
Species: Other
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Started early by boat launch at Blue creek by throwing glo corkies. Then went to floats and eggs and spinners. Nothing. Worked my way down the river to Blue creek hitting any number of open spots and ...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...