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Bobberdownchromer
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Cowlitz River

Post by Bobberdownchromer » Thu Mar 06, 2014 4:14 pm

Might head out to the Cowlitz River for smelting and then afterwards go steelhead/springer fishing. Just wondering what spots are good to plunk,how much oz of weight, best line wt, and best spin n glow size. Any info is helped. Thank you [thumbsup]
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Re: Cowlitz River

Post by needs2hunt » Thu Mar 06, 2014 6:34 pm

well i saw the Cowlitz river today... if a fish can see more then 2" in front of his face. he's doing good... in fact all the rivers look super nasty right now... but I'm not a river fisherman... gonna take a couple of days to get them down and cleaned up..
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Re: Cowlitz River

Post by Bobberdownchromer » Thu Mar 06, 2014 6:38 pm

Ok thanks, maybe the skookumchuck might be a little more fun to explore.
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Re: Cowlitz River

Post by FishBaitThe2nd » Thu Mar 06, 2014 6:54 pm

One of my buddies killed a metalhead today down there
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Re: Cowlitz River

Post by dadamunky » Thu Mar 06, 2014 7:09 pm

The chuck is runnin pretty high right now. Its over 2k.
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Re: Cowlitz River

Post by mizm05 » Fri Mar 07, 2014 8:41 am

I agree with dadamunky...skookumchuck is a mess right now. Wait until it comes back into shape (usually between 100-400 cfs)...it's currently at 3320 cfs....I would venture to guess the water is up to the base of the trees right now.
Bobberdownchromer wrote:Ok thanks, maybe the skookumchuck might be a little more fun to explore.
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Re: Cowlitz River

Post by Cozmo4196 » Fri Mar 07, 2014 9:30 am

Save your gas money. Everything is blown out and will take a while to settle back into place.
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Re: Cowlitz River

Post by Bobberdownchromer » Fri Mar 07, 2014 2:01 pm

Ok, well im going down there for smelt on the cowlitz so might as well try a fishing.
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Re: Cowlitz River

Post by natetreat » Fri Mar 07, 2014 2:53 pm

Anything under 10k is fishable, I've fished it up to 12. That is if you're fishing the hatchery areas. The river will be bouncing around from 4k to 12k every week this spring. They let water out on Mondays, and lower it for the weekends. There will be times where it will vary from the weather, but for the most part this is how it goes. Right now the water is at 6,600 cfs which is perfect, last week they got one springer and 45 steelhead back in the counts.
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