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Cowlitz River Fishing Reports

Cowlitz River
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...
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Cowlitz River
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...
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Cowlitz River
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...
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Cowlitz River
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...
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Cowlitz River
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...
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Cowlitz River
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. ...
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Cowlitz River
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...
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Cowlitz River
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...
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Cowlitz River
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...
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Cowlitz River
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...
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Cowlitz River
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...
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Cowlitz River
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...
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Cowlitz River
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 ...
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Cowlitz River
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 ...
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Cowlitz River
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...
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Cowlitz River
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...
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Cowlitz River
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...
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Cowlitz River
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...
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Cowlitz River
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...
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Cowlitz River
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 10/14/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Cowlitz at the barrier dam with some friends. We were standing in the water ready to go when the clock registered an hour before daylight. Started the day off drifting glow corkies and imme...
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Cowlitz River
By: entropico
Posted: 6/24/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/21/2014
Hot Spots: 1
I don't post much, but I had not seen much from the Cowlitz River so I thought it would add some knowledge. Three of us arrived near the Barrier Dam at around 0730. I have not fished Chinnok before ...
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Cowlitz River
By: KIDKOKANEE
Posted: 6/22/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Me and a fishing buddy headed down to Oly to buy a Outboard from a classified ad got crossed by the seller enroute and had to kill some time to meet up ! SOOO we went fishn the Cowlitz Barrier Dam fis...
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Cowlitz River
By: Fishman_Kuzan
Posted: 6/17/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Got out for a great day of springer fishing last week. Launched o dark thirty at the barrier access site. River was pretty desolate which was not what I expected. Flows had been dropped significant...
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Cowlitz River
By: tele_maniac
Posted: 5/31/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/30/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Barrier Dam on Friday evening with Hepker hoping to catch my first Springer of the season. We float fished eggs and sand shrimp for several hours. Missed a couple take downs, had two solid bites t...
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Cowlitz River
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 5/31/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/31/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Cowlitz at the barrier dam early this morning for spring Chinook. Saw quite a few fish hooked/landed with people having success drifting glow corkies, using darts, drifting eggs, and floati...
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