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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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
By: fishonfool
Posted: 5/31/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/30/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Side planned plugs just above the toutle with no luck this am. 4 others fishing eggs n shrimp with no luck. Saw no fish roll or splash. Lots of smolts/small trout pecking at offerings.
Posted: 5/24/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Drove down Thursday night (Slept in the Truck) in hopes of bringing home some fish. Up bright an early in line at barrier tossing eggs under a float as usual. A few guys tagged springers early but it ...
By: NITRO 175
Posted: 5/11/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2014
Hot Spots: 3
My son and I went to the dam yesterday, he just got back from Alaska his there for college any way he hasn't fish since winter break so he really wanted to go to try his luck, we got there at about th...
By: KIDKOKANEE
Posted: 5/8/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Well I m on Vacation Missed the Lake Wilderness Opener to many boat trls got turned away fished lake Meridian and my fire extinguisher pin fell out and shot off all over big mess still cleaning it up ...
By: SilverSlayer
Posted: 5/6/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Barrier Dam area from 6 to 9:30 this morning. Fishing was slow, only saw one springer landed from the riffle above the boat launch. Saw another brief hook-up in the same area, but thats it. ...
By: NITRO 175
Posted: 5/3/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/3/2014
Hot Spots: 3
I started at the dam I got there at seven a lots of people already just above the boat ramp so I waited took my time then a father and son pack up and I move in there spot I think they were there at d...
By: MarkFromSea
Posted: 4/27/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I went steelhead fishing on the Cowlitz River. The rain was off and on all day but the bite was consistent. We got into some prime locations where we had multiple hookups on steelhead and chinook. E...
By: natetreat
Posted: 4/20/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/19/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I'm having too much fun guys. Fishing has been great. Springers are picking up, but steelhead are where it's at. Man it's been so much fun.
A couple of days in the last week we've had double digit...
By: sealegs
Posted: 4/18/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Felt " sick " on Thursday night and called in "sick" on Friday. Amazingly, I felt better as I was driving down to the Cowlitz River to try my odds at a second Chinook. I prepped Roe sacks the night be...
By: natetreat
Posted: 4/16/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/14/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The Cowlitz steelhead have been great. There are lots of fish, and they're willing to play! Springers are slowly showing themselves, but the area around blue creek and below has been pretty darn good....
By: NITRO 175
Posted: 4/13/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/12/2014
Hot Spots: 3
started at the dam after a few hours fishing there of no fish I decided to head down to blue creek got to the parking lot and there was hardly any parking so I park above the boat ramp and started fis...
By: mizm05
Posted: 4/10/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/9/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Blue Creek because we heard B run steel had been pretty active. It was dead. Well, I should say it was dead anywhere up river from the actual Blue Creek. We didn't get the inside scoop from a v...
By: Bay wolf
Posted: 4/6/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I got the pleasure of fishing with Nate and his Father yesterday. We had a great trip! I lost a couple of fish ( my own fault) and we got that really nice Steel.
We had a great time and some really...
By: natetreat
Posted: 4/6/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing on the Cowlitz for springers is starting to pick up! The B-run steelhead are in. We were searching for springers yesterday from Barrier to Blue Creek. Springers are a little slow, but they are...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 3/27/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Cowlitz today from the bank by the Blue Creek launch. Started fishing at about 6:30am or so and left around 9:30am. Not a lot happening for us or the other guys on the bank at the spot. I d...
By: Toni
Posted: 3/25/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
It rained, it was windy, and some sun showed up. I don’t know exactly where we were but Phil knew where some fish were.
We were happy!
We are in a battle! Angler against fish! We need an arsena...
By: salmonbarry
Posted: 3/15/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/14/2014
Hot Spots: 0
25 years ago on March 14th my father passed away also yesterday would have been his 98th birthday, so in honor on his memory took yesterday day off to do what he loved best, to go fishing!! He introd...
By: salmonlander
Posted: 3/9/2014
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Headed South for the Smelt dip on Saturday morning not really knowing what to expect as I had never experienced one. After a coaching and some general info from a great friend, and a borrowed net from...
By: akfishgrl
Posted: 3/2/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the Blue creek hatchery. Got a couple bites and watched a spey caster catch a really nice bright ...maybe ~8-10lber on a streamer. Saw another two separate boats catch one each. This was fro...
