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By: Ryan_1
Posted: 2/8/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to the Chehalis rive and fished from 8 AM to 1PM and there was about 8 others fishing with all different baits but not one fish was caught. Also was very cold.
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/11/2009
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Silvers jumping everywhere and we threw everything at them, spinners, spoons, and eggs. All we could catch were a couple nice kings, released of course.
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By: rseas
Posted: 10/19/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
On Saturday I had to drop a kid off in Grand Mound for the day so instead of driving back and forth from Skagit County I decided to spend the day exploring the area and pestering the local fish popula...
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By: Nelly1
Posted: 10/27/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Wagonbrnr and I launched at Cosmopolis before dark. Did not look good as we were the only ones at the launch at 6:30am. We trolled a fish flash and herring until noon, had one 2lb shaker whole time...
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By: Nelly1
Posted: 11/1/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/31/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at Cosmopolis. Ran upstream to mox chuck slough and trolled our asses off with no success. Went up to sand island and threw spinnners for a while same result. Talked with some guys who each g...
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Posted: 8/21/2010
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
have been doing really good on the sturgeon. lots of fish been hooking anywhere between 3 and 8 fish every trip.
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Posted: 9/28/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
had some biz out west....noticed quite a few bankies and somes jets on the drive out.....so i stop bye 1 of my lil hidey holes on the way bk....i "KNOW your not supposed to tell every 1 where th...
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By: Toni
Posted: 10/10/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I met up with team F24 for some salmon action on the Chehalis River in Aberdeen. The wind blew a little, it rained and rained. And rained some more. We were there from about 9am until sometime after 1...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 9/19/2011
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Rating: 4
Fished: 9/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
1st time fishing the chehalis river, hooked 4 and landed one, a beautiful 10 1/4 lb.hatchery silver buck,Melanie's 1st river fish.Jumped 4 times, put up quite the fight, but Melanie made no mistakes a...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 9/20/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Posted this report last night, but it never came up, here goes second try.Launched from Friend's landing, had 4 hook-ups but only able to slip the net under this one, a 10lb4oz. hatchery buck . Really...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 9/26/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the morning getting beat up by rain, looking for the elusive coho. Did't see any fish netted, only talked to one sucessful boat, all others were also getting skunked, I thought the rain would br...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 10/3/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We hit the river about 9 a. m. , trolled through the tide change, hooked this nice 9lb 9oz. silver, I wanted to catch a salmon on a new rod and reel, a lamiglass XCC 934 composite downrigger rod and ...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 10/9/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got skunked this time out we saw some fish caught but not in our boat. Bob R
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By: plabarge
Posted: 10/21/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great day on the Chehalis, 1st time on the river, with the nets in and no recent rain to bring a batch of new fish in we had no idea what kind of day to expect. We had to work hard to find them...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/7/2012
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
First Stergeon ever of 33 inches needed five more inches great fight though released for another fisher no more bites for the rest of the day going at it again tomorrow.
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By: Bob R
Posted: 9/16/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
No fish or hits for us, we starterd late(9:00a.m.) and fished the incoming tide, saw about 4 fisherfolk that had caught 1 each, overall slow. Will give it another shot earlier tomorrow. Bob R
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By: BI17
Posted: 9/17/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Good day for the opener put in at 28th street around 6am. 3 in the boat By 10:00 am and lost 4 and had couple of good hits.
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By: Bob R
Posted: 9/17/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
What a great day! After going fishless yesterday, the first day of salmon fishing in the Chehalis, we came back strong today with a chrome bright silver each! I took mine after a biteless first 2 or ...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 9/23/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
WOW! What a day, Melanie and I limited on great sized silvers. Trolling from the bridge at Mary's lumber we picked up two in the morning and two in the afternoon. All but one were on the "flying C" th...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 9/30/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/29/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Tough day, but Melanie caught this nice buck in the morning, she also hooked a king about 20 or 25 lbs. got into some timber and snapped off my mepps Flying C" ,my go to lure this year.I had a tough d...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 9/30/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/30/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Great day on the water, just about 180 degrees difference from yesterday. No lost lures to snags and 3 fish caught(but one released).1st fish I was up, Put my favorite rig on Melanie's spinning rod,...
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By: Bob R
Posted: 10/3/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/1/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Hit the Chehalis Monday, didn't hook any kings(of course not, since we could keep them today!).We did take two chrome silvers, one 10 lbs., the other around 5 or 6.Great fights, lost another that went...
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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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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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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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