Cowlitz River Steelhead

[ridgefire]

Any reports on the Cowlitz? We are heading down on Friday and I am curious how the fishing has been. Thanks.

[2MANY]

250 boats cant be wrong.

[fowl smacker]

River looks like crap below the Toutle.  Best bet would be Blue Creek with all the crazies!

[WSU]

250 boats cant be wrong.

Or can they?  What a CF that cow has become.

[buckfvr]

250 boats cant be wrong.

Or can they?  What a CF that cow has become.

 

[2MANY]

It parallels WDFW very closely.

[elkslayer069]

Reminds me of the north east whitetail east vs west thread. Everyone from somewhere else comes here to fish it. But everyone complains there’s no fish and too many people. Sound fimliar?

[duckmen1]

Reminds me of the north east whitetail east vs west thread. Everyone from somewhere else comes here to fish it. But everyone complains there’s no fish and too many people. Sound fimliar?

One common denominator though!

[elkslayer069]

Olympia? LOL

[trophyhunt]

Friend at work caught a 16 lber sat, gave me a big chunk.  Saw a few caught he said.  I’ll be out this sat.

[HntnFsh]

Good luck!
Been wanting to get out myself, but too busy!

[duckmen1]

Olympia? LOL

Bingo

[Dhoey07]

Dad, BIL and a family friend fished Sunday.  Got 2 hatchery brats.

[ridgefire]

Thanks for the updates.

[HntnFsh]

Saw some guys that obviously got done with a guide trip a bit ago. Looked like they has filets off 3 or 4 fish

[metlhead]

Counts at the dam have been stable and increasing. Last week of March til mid April will have the highest returns. Course it's crowded with other local systems shut down. If you are in a boat there are miles of productive water you can have to yourself. 30 boats will pound that stretch at the BC launch over and over before spreading out.

[Irish_hunter93]

Well, how did you do?


Me and a friend of mine went on the 14th, got there at 4:45 am, by 7 am the river came up a ton! Went from 5100 CFS to almost 6400 CFS! Really seemed to put the fish down.

My luck go figure 😅

[HntnFsh]

Fish transport flows! Required weekly i think.

[ridgefire]

Sorry for the late update. 3 of us fished all day and put 2 fish in the boat. Saw a few other fish get caught but a little slow overall. Good times anyways.

[Taco280AI]

I was there a couple days ago on the bank. One evening saw two boats pull in fish, the next morning didn't see anything caught.