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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...
By: Bob R
Posted: 9/19/2011
Species:
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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
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
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.
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 ...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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.
By: tight lines
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.
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.
