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Chehalis River Fishing Reports

Chehalis River
By: Blake's dad
Posted: 11/22/2018
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/22/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Got to love the Fall colors Happy Thanksgiving
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Chehalis River
By: Blake's dad
Posted: 11/20/2018
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/17/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Lots of fun had to find the clipped ones.
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Chehalis River
By: Ganno
Posted: 10/7/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/6/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at Montesano early morning fished above and below the bridge .We tried everything plugs spinners herring behind fish flash rotating flashers and supper bait all with the same results not a bi...
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Chehalis River
By: steevano61
Posted: 1/16/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/15/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Pretty slow fishing still. Between 2 drift boats and 4 of us we had a half dozen take downs (all on eggs) and landed 1 native hen 10lbs that we released. Tried pulling plugs, floating jigs and tossi...
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Chehalis River
By: edawg32
Posted: 10/21/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/18/2015
Hot Spots: 0
After arriving at the Montesano boat ramp and a courtesy inspection from the Grays Harbor Sheriff we started fishing at 8:00.The river was full of boats,at least 20-25.We threw every bait and lure at ...
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Chehalis River
By: chase4catcher1329
Posted: 9/30/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/29/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I say average day because I was fishing for silvers but only catching kings twitchin'. 3 kings in 1hour of fishing all with the same hand tied 1/4oz cerise/pink jig and 8# line.. I don't know how I di...
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Chehalis River
By: Bob R
Posted: 9/28/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Melanie and I fished Saturday and Sunday, I brought home a 6 lb. silver on Sunday, similar to the one Melanie caught on Wed. and pictured in that report (and misidentified by Jeeper 2586) Melanie caug...
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Chehalis River
By: Bob R
Posted: 9/23/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Melanie and I fished the Chehalis River for the 1st time this year. Tough day, one drive-by and this nice 6 lb. buck that my wife caught on a spinner. Most folks we talked to didn't have fish in the b...
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Chehalis River
By: majorgbailey
Posted: 9/19/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/18/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Launched at Montesano ramp on an outgoing tide. Went downstream and trolled flashers and herring. There were about 20 boats in this section all trolling with herring. No one was reporting any action....
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Chehalis River
By: Stuffy
Posted: 1/18/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/17/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Great day. My partner and I wanted one more Coho outing on the Chehalis. This time my partner's girlfriend came to enjoy a nice day on a river and try to catch her first fish. We hit several holes but...
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Chehalis River
By: Stuffy
Posted: 1/1/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
What a day. Picked up 6 nice Coho a couple days before the season ended. My friend Tony and his 10 year old daughter Megan for her first salmon trip. went along. On the way down from Oakville laun...
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Chehalis River
By: Stuffy
Posted: 12/21/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/17/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Had great time. 4 for 4, 3 huge bucks and nice hen, all hatchery. Limited by 11am. Weather was nice and only a couple sprinkles on us. Work the gravel bar edges in the shallow areas to catch the fish ...
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Chehalis River
By: Stuffy
Posted: 12/21/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/20/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Great day, and got 3 nice fish but missed a limit. Nice bright fat Coho hatchery hens. The weather was a pretty nasty, breezy and plenty of WA liquid sunshine. The fish are there but spread out. We us...
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Chehalis River
By: Stuffy
Posted: 12/5/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Put in about 10am yesterday, but shoulda listened to Guides from Steelie U to not waste time on the water for another week. I was also expecting to get rained on all day, and was upset it didn't rain ...
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Chehalis River
By: Fishman_Kuzan
Posted: 11/1/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Got a chance to fish the Chehalis while visiting family for my birthday and conditions allowed. Fished from 730 to 330. Fished spinners and plugs in holding/frog water early and picked up fish throug...
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Chehalis River
By: majorgbailey
Posted: 10/11/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at the 107 bridge ramp at 5pm after doing nothing in Grays Harbor. Went upstream 10 mins. Drift fished with eggs near the bank. Hooked up at 5:45pm. After a healthy fight, netted and then ...
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Chehalis River
By: mauifisher
Posted: 10/11/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the river at the spot behind walmart around 1030. There were a couple guys down there fishing and one had two nice bucks already. I decided on my trusty #5 blue fox, silver blade with chartuese...
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Chehalis River
By: Bob R
Posted: 9/26/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Melanie and I spent our last day fishing this week for salmon, we each caught a jack, mine was an 18 or 19 inch king, fought unbelievably well, 3or 4 vertical leaps clear out of the water and 4 or 5 b...
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Chehalis River
By: Bob R
Posted: 9/21/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went out again today but launched in monte instead of cosmo, we heard of fish being caught and with bad weather in the forecast we decided to be closer to home in a more protected area (at least prote...
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Chehalis River
By: Bob R
Posted: 9/19/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/19/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Launched out of cosmo this morn, caught my fish about 10:00a.m., Melanie's was close to tide change in afternnon about 1:00. Got some great drive-bys after that but couldn't make it stick. fishing wa...
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Chehalis River
By: hogstwo1
Posted: 9/18/2013
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Brother Ed and I fished the Chehalis for diamondsides with no luck. bait shop out of sandshrimp again, so had to go with squid. no takers. was going to fish for salmon, but nothing around the upper r...
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Chehalis River
By: Bob R
Posted: 9/16/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/15/2013
Hot Spots: 0
we arrived at Monte to launch early Sunday morn, but lightning and downpour greeted us at ramp. Decided to head home, weather cleared by afternoon, went out for a couple of hours but no hits and no lu...
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Chehalis River
By: hogstwo1
Posted: 9/11/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
brother ed and I fished from shore at friends landing using spinners. no luck. if bob r is fishing the Chehalis. please give me some good advise on when to fish the brackish water.
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Chehalis River
By: KRH
Posted: 3/8/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Been fishing near Rochester for over a week now and it seems like the fish are coming in pretty good now. Been catching them mainly on jigs, and a few on spin glows. Seems like they like the orange/re...
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Chehalis River
By: BootLegger
Posted: 1/21/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I prefer bobber and jig fishing for steelhead but plunking works too, 14lb skookumchuck bound steel.
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