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Cowlitz River Fishing Reports

Cowlitz River
By: Toni
Posted: 10/9/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This is for Thursday 10-7 on the Cowlitz. We worked hard. Very hard.Well Phil always works hard. I found out and Phil pointed out that I have TO SET THE HOOK! I have spent the last 7 months looking ...
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Cowlitz River
By: bluebullitt2003
Posted: 10/3/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
went out to the cowlitz with some buddies. we caught fish all day, the first 3 i caught were all native, so that was frusturating, but the last hook up I had was this huge hawg! it weighed in at 20.06...
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Cowlitz River
By: spokey9
Posted: 10/2/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
went down to cowlitz to fish the pool at barrier dam, got there around 6am. started of glow balling til sunrise, hooked up 7 or 8 fish (i think they were all kings) but they kept snapping off. at sun...
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Cowlitz River
By: natetreat
Posted: 9/29/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the cowlitz yesterday. After all of the fishing in these loacaql rivers it felt nice to have a familiar river. It was perfect. No snags in your drift, fishing rolling. Current was perfect and ...
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Cowlitz River
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/26/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Today was a very memorable day for me on the Cowlitz! A day of fishing unlike any other. We started fishing early morning with a few fish between 5 guys. The bite slowed down come daylight, and i fin...
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Cowlitz River
By: deezy38
Posted: 8/17/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished down at blue creek from 4am till about 9am there was a few people fishing I got this chromer at about 6:45 was the only hookup i saw while i was there good luck Tight Lines!!!!
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Cowlitz River
By: jeflen651
Posted: 8/3/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I went down to the Cowlitz today and fished four spots between Blue creek and Barrier dam. The river is still pretty high making it tough to fish from the bank. We caught a few trout but...
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Cowlitz River
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/15/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
After stopping at the toutle on the way home my dad and i decided to stop by at the barier to see what was goin on there and to our surprise there were chromers stacked in all through out there so we ...
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Cowlitz River
By: Jack Pricer
Posted: 7/11/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Aloha Had a couple of great days (great weather and great fishing buddies) at Barrier and lost a couple on the rocks at the point but caught a nice one (dinner tonight!), from the rocks. Saw 4 Steel...
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Cowlitz River
By: spokey9
Posted: 6/10/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to barrier dam this morning and fished the rocks with bobber and eggs. Caught two jack springers (the biggest was a whopping 16 inches). Saw tons of fish rolling, just had lockjaw. Really tough...
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Cowlitz River
By: spokey9
Posted: 6/7/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to barrier dam this morning. Water was really high so we fished the rocks just below the fish ladder. My buddy hooked up twice (one for sure was a springer) and lost them both. He was using...
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Cowlitz River
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/5/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the cowlitz today, wow it is so blown out. What a waste of time, i advise anyone thinking of hitting it any time soon the reconsider, check the flows. I got washed away ha
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Cowlitz River
By: NITRO 175
Posted: 5/30/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I were going to start out at Blue Creek Area but we ran into some friends that were camping there and said it was dead because the water was too high and told us to try Barrier Dam. So we h...
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Cowlitz River
By: flinginpooh
Posted: 5/30/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Water is high its fast the fishing is not ideal. But that's still ok means not so many people on the river. Started off walking to the mouth of bc. Talk about a waste of time. Water is way too hig...
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Cowlitz River
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 5/29/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
River was WAY TO HIGH today. Runnin at 9350 CFS I was told. Lost my Keys in the water.. then found em. Lucky I have like 15 keys on my set. Threw everything I had at em....... Just not fun, when you t...
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Cowlitz River
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 5/16/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
got to the cowlitz around 4:45 and fished it till 9:30. Only one take down all morning. The best part was I tied the jig myself. First time, one of my jigs worked :) Fish hit just before 6am, a nice 2...
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Cowlitz River
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/9/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great start too the day started out at 6:30Am and by 6:50 had the first fish on 10min later a nice 24lbs springer in the boat on 8 pound test line great fight.fished until noon no other takers. ...
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Cowlitz River
By: jbandurraga
Posted: 5/5/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Even though the fishing has really slowed down in the Blue Creek area, it is still producing some really nice quality summer run steelhead. Best bite is first few hours of daylight and late afternoon
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Cowlitz River
By: Jhuynh2
Posted: 5/3/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the barrier, no luck, saw 1 fish caught only all day, saw a few jumpers but no biters, lots of smelt, water levels too low. Threw everything in the books at them and no biters
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Cowlitz River
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/29/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished all morning and only seen one fish caught at mouth of blue creek .water is still really low wouldn't use prop .if they would release some water fishing should pick up.
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Cowlitz River
By: the Salmonid Kid
Posted: 4/26/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Cowlitz again Sunday.....lost a couple early .... friend got one......lull till about 1:45pm and then they came through fairly consistantly.... all in all, our trio went 4 for 10 with all rele...
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Cowlitz River
By: flinginpooh
Posted: 4/17/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the cow and glow balled from 11pm till sunrise. It was slow to say the least. Not one bite at all, all night. Didnt see any fish caught only heard a few jump here and there. The parking lo...
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Cowlitz River
By: KrillZone253
Posted: 4/15/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit blue creek yesterday afternoon with my buddy Justin. Nothin really going for about a hour, then we started layin into them. We hooked 25-30 in between the both of us. I landed 5 probably, with my ...
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Cowlitz River
By: Gonzipheris
Posted: 4/11/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I took my first trip down to the Cowlitz (Blue Creek area). First thing in the morning my buddy Brian hooked and landed this 20lb Springer. What a way to start the day. We fished all day and the fishi...
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Cowlitz River
By: code3daddy
Posted: 4/10/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
So I took both my girls out to the Cowlitz River on Friday to go fishing. We left at 0330am and got there around 6am. We started at Blue Creek and after several hours of fishing we moved to Barrier Da...
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