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Cowlitz River Fishing Reports

Cowlitz River
By: Snoop
Posted: 8/18/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
After an awesome time re learning this river after 12 or so years the day before I made another 2.5 hour drive to blue creek. This time I took the more direct trail to the bank where all the action w...
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Cowlitz River
By: Snoop
Posted: 8/18/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
12 years ago as an 8th or 9th grader I fished the Cowlitz River with my dad. I haven't been back since, and avoided it because of the horror stories of combat fishing, and the long drive. With every...
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Cowlitz River
By: Scheindogg
Posted: 8/11/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got to blue creek trout hatchery area around 630, lines in water by 645. Water was super low today for the cowlitz. I had to walk a solid 35 yards out into the river and was still only at my waist. Tr...
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Cowlitz River
By: dad3lb
Posted: 8/8/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
First time steelhead fishing and first time at the Cowlitz, fished the blue creek below the dam and used corky and yarn. 0900 that I hooked a good size hatchery steelie 9 lb plus or minus . put up ...
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Cowlitz River
By: fish_4_coho
Posted: 7/27/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/27/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Fished for 2 hours in the evening saw 7 summer steelhead landed, all super chrome bright. Good time other then the one fisherman who set the hook at the end of every drift, and snagged all but one of ...
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Cowlitz River
By: fish_4_coho
Posted: 7/10/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/24/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Took advantage of an early day of work and ran down to my favorite summer steelhead spot on the Cowlitz. My 5th cast something took off with my two corkies and after a pretty good tussle finally wore...
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Cowlitz River
By: catchanything66
Posted: 6/1/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I was there early this time with my best friend and his son. Got there early again. This time I didn't hear anything coming from the dam area or even a whaa hoo. Fish on. Nothing this time. My friend ...
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Cowlitz River
By: catchanything66
Posted: 6/1/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/27/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Started early just at sunrise. Fished for about 3 hours with nothing on the hook. Only 2 fish being landed were up by the dam. Most likely they were using eggs under a float. Seen a number of floats g...
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Cowlitz River
By: 4n6fisher
Posted: 4/12/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The day started off with high hopes, as we were walking in about 6:15 we see some guy walking out with six fish for him and his buddy. We jumped into their spot thinking it would be a good location, ...
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Cowlitz River
By: pblazer76
Posted: 2/17/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/13/2016
Hot Spots: 0
River was high but got one fishing jig tipped with shrimp. I didnt have a scale but im guessing it was 14-16lb range. Fishing was slow but i was happy to get one when most weren't.
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Cowlitz River
By: flyfisherguy
Posted: 2/7/2016
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
What a fantastic day on the Cowlitz River near Longview fishing for smelt! The fish were so plentiful (and so was the crowd!) I'm sure that no one who was dipping went home empty handed. The DFW reall...
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Cowlitz River
By: sgreni
Posted: 11/4/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/26/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Well we braved the rain to do the Barrier to Blue creek float in the drift boat with my buddy Brandon who had a couple days off from the Army. It started out pretty sloppy wet, but we weren't deterred...
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Cowlitz River
By: Jhuynh2
Posted: 10/26/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
no one fishing, only saw 4 to 5 brown old boot kings, no fish sad to see this year, went home to the Skokomish and hit 2 chums!
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Cowlitz River
By: lhouch1
Posted: 10/25/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/24/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Brenda and I went to the Cowlitz yesterday ...long day. Left Puyallup at about 430 am. Stopped by subway for sandwiches for lunch then headed to Blue Creek. After about a 90 minute drive we got the...
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Cowlitz River
By: nascarrich64
Posted: 9/11/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Took a day to fish the Cowlitz River. Left Castle Rock boat launch motoring down river working different areas side drifting eggs/shrimp. By the end of the day we had 21 hookups, 15 large Chinook/Coho...
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Cowlitz River
By: RiverOtterGS
Posted: 7/30/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/30/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Cowlitz river today with two clients husband a wife team from Oregon. The water was on the rise over the past two days it has gone from 3,000 to 6,000 cfs which brought in some fresh fish a...
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Cowlitz River
By: Mort
Posted: 7/25/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Wife and I spent the morning fishing the Cowlitz river. We put in at the Trout Hatchery launch. We started at first light and in just a few hours had our limit of 6 Steelhead drifting Salmon eggs alon...
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Cowlitz River
By: Bassmaster76
Posted: 6/6/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/6/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Today was a perfect way to spend the last day of my staycation before returning to work. The sun was shining and there wasn't a ton of people since the number of fish has dwendled over the last week....
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Cowlitz River
By: Bassmaster76
Posted: 6/2/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Figured I'd make my way down to the Cowlitz today to get in on some springer action before the run was over. Woke up late and managed to get there by 9:45. Started off casting eggs under a float for...
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Cowlitz River
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...
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Cowlitz River
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...
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Cowlitz River
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...
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Cowlitz River
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...
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Cowlitz River
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...
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Cowlitz River
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...
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