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By: akfishgrl
Posted: 3/2/2014
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Drove down to the river to meet a couple friends to try our hand at smelt...
Was a fortunate day I must say! It took about 40 minutes to get our limits.
Was fun, some spots were hot and some the fi...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 3/1/2014
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Pacific Eulachon aka Columbia River Smelt Dip Netting
Friday I had some business to attend to in Longview, WA. I decided to check out the Cowlitz River to see if I could find any eulachon swimming ...
By: Burnside
Posted: 2/21/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
First time on the Cowlitz today. Didn't catch any steelhead but, hooked into an early springer (my first king ever) which put up an awesome fight! Got it to the net and the plug tangled in it and Mr. ...
By: Dan360
Posted: 2/8/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the run from the Blue Creek Boat Launch down to the mouth of Blue Creek. Floated jigs of various colors, drifted shrimp and eggs, drifted a bead, no luck. Not a single fish on the bank all mo...
By: Ducks
Posted: 12/1/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
went fishing in Packwood below the bridge and caught 1 jack and lost 2 adults, used a green corky with black yarn and a 1/2 oz weight with a 4.5 ft leader
By: KIDKOKANEE
Posted: 11/11/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My fishn partner informd me Barrier Dam Chinook hook ups were good so early there in the am we go hooked onto several bringing them in not so easy alot of people and the idea of calling out FISH ON an...
By: brandon_murray1
Posted: 11/3/2013
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/3/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Fished up by Blue Creek Hatchery. Only stayed for about an hour. Took a little bit of wandering till I found the fish. Ended up catching them right above the boat launch about twenty feet out using a ...
By: Trout_hunter
Posted: 10/29/2013
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/29/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Played a little hooky from work this afternoon and headed with a buddy up to the Blue Creek hatchery on the Cowlitz. Wading out and casting night crawlers, the fishing was hot immediately, well at le...
By: natetreat
Posted: 10/22/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I had an opportunity to fish down on the Cowlitz the other day, and it was a blast! Lots of fish, lots of hookups. Chinook and silvers both were willing to play!
We got our fish on eggs, drifted an...
By: birdjazz10
Posted: 9/26/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the mouth of the Toutle for three days. They were rolling everywhere but no hang ups. I threw everything I had at them...different color corkies, different color Vibrax, jigs, Dick Nites...noth...
By: SoDakboy
Posted: 9/17/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This is my first time side drifting for salmon, so if I got the rating wrong whoops. Went out with guide Mike Mike was right on time and then we followed him to the Castle Rock boat ramp. Got the boat...
By: rgeeze
Posted: 8/6/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Awesome day on the cowlitz gotta fish with dad and got us a summer run 4 hours of fishing
By: GRIZZ55
Posted: 7/5/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/22/2013
Hot Spots: 3
While fishing the Cowlitz River between the Cowlitz River Dam and Riffe Lake we caught many Kokane in the 10" to 16" range trolling the river with 00 dodgers and wedding ring spinners tipped with very...
By: natetreat
Posted: 5/13/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/11/2013
Hot Spots: 2
I’ve been fishing the Cowlitz from the drift boat and the bank, and the fishing has been better from the bank, believe it or not. Eggs drifted at the barrier dam are the ticket, alongside a crippled h...
By: natetreat
Posted: 5/5/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well we've been fishing the Cowlitz now for a bit. We banked it today though, had some good springer lessons in some 80 degree weather. It's been very good. Today was a lot of fun, fish jumping everyw...
By: Fisher83
Posted: 2/2/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the dam in the morning, only one fish caught on float n jig...no pics since it was not me. Then, around noon, I headed to Blue Creek...saw low turn out of boats and anglers.....hmmm....must be ...
By: rgeeze
Posted: 1/22/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got to blue creek about 6:30 fished till 11 no fish only about 15 rigs and 4 boats in the parking lot. Guess I will go try the skook
By: Smoke
Posted: 1/16/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
What a day to remember......spent the night in my truck at Blue Creek Launch, did i mention the lack of sleep i got trying to get compfortable in the front seat with sub-freezing temps. at 7:00 am I s...
By: steelehead13
Posted: 1/8/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I went down to blue creek i had a half day to fish before picking up my doughter from winter break. We started at around seven. In the first hour of fishing we saw five fish rolling five feet in front...
By: Brat Bonker
Posted: 12/27/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the last christmas night, the next day, and last night with only one show, a 31inch, 10-11lb glow balled cowlitz river winter steelhead. not only my first cowlitz winter steelhead but my first ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 12/24/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
This is getting old. Took my son Matt down to the Cowlitz with hopes of getting him his first steelhead. We fished from daybreak until 1:30. Our primary method was boondogging eggs/float. We also trie...
By: Acefishon
Posted: 12/5/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well hit cowlitz today and was pretty slow only saw mabe 6 fish caught and I got one around noon 14 lbs winter run steelhead .I do have some bad news for cowlitz river starting this year there will be...
By: gonnahookit
Posted: 11/5/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Took my 3 yr old boy to Blue Creek to search for some steelhead or salmon. Didn't find any, heard of only one caught all day, but caught a nice batch of cutthroats, smallest about 13", largest one was...
By: snyderman399
Posted: 10/26/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
fished blue creek down to misssion. tough day again we got 4 jack silvers one 7lb silver a few cuttroats. i hooked into a big fish but lost it,acted like a big king,saw a bunch of kings roll but they ...
By: blurock
Posted: 9/18/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I was suppose to go to the Potholes this weekend for some Walleye, Bass, and Trout action, but it didn't happen. So we packed up and headed for the Cowlitz instead.
Saturday we fished Blue Creek ...