Post by: Screaminreelz on January 02, 2019, 12:49:00 PM
Post by: NWBrute on January 02, 2019, 02:55:30 PM
Post by: Smokeploe on January 02, 2019, 03:11:53 PM
Post by: Mark Youngblood on January 02, 2019, 06:34:04 PM
Could be wrong, but I don't think there is much of a run until March on the Cowlitz. I think they got rid of the early winter run some years ago. :dunno:
Unfortunately this is correct
Post by: 2MANY on January 02, 2019, 06:39:16 PM
Pathetic that they have been allowed to not meet their commitments from when they built the damn dams.
Post by: wildweeds on January 02, 2019, 06:48:49 PM
Just look at the recent uh oh at the minter creek facility. ... couldn't get back up generator started and killed what? 6 million chinook fry.
Post by: PolarBear on January 02, 2019, 06:56:06 PM
Could be wrong, but I don't think there is much of a run until March on the Cowlitz. I think they got rid of the early winter run some years ago. :dunno::yeah:
March into Early April.
(https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/v103/Polrbear/17553738_10212852364688421_7775054287317250068_n_zpsbqvsn925.jpg)
Post by: 2MANY on January 02, 2019, 06:59:10 PM
WDFW is lame.
Post by: hollymaster on January 02, 2019, 07:11:01 PM
Sold my sled.:yeah: Me too
WDFW is lame.
Post by: Angus on January 04, 2019, 09:34:02 PM
Post by: fowl smacker on January 04, 2019, 09:41:56 PM
:yeah: me 3!Sold my sled.:yeah: Me too
WDFW is lame.
It truly is sad what they have don't to the river I grew up on.
Post by: huntnphool on January 04, 2019, 09:43:48 PM
Post by: BigGoonTuna on January 04, 2019, 09:54:58 PM
I'd take those Thanksgiving to new year's fish of yesteryear any day. Hell, we had late fish way back when too, and few targeted them. The summer run is a pathetic shell of what it once was, too.
Sure am glad i got to fish it from the early 90s to the early 2000s when things were still good. I can remember them upping the limit to 3 one summer, launching at 7pm, putting our 6 fish in the boat by 10, then running back to the parking lot to catch a few z's and doing it again at 5am.
Post by: huntnphool on January 04, 2019, 09:58:34 PM
The late run is a joke. Usually ends up being a bunch of "it's about to get good," then it fizzles out. Not to mention the fish quality sucks, the hens spit eggs all over the boat.
I'd take those Thanksgiving to new year's fish of yesteryear any day. Hell, we had late fish way back when too, and few targeted them. The summer run is a pathetic shell of what it once was, too.
Sure am glad i got to fish it from the early 90s to the early 2000s when things were still good. I can remember them upping the limit to 3 one summer, launching at 7pm, putting our 6 fish in the boat by 10, then running back to the parking lot to catch a few z's and doing it again at 5am.
Stop, it's never been that good.
Post by: JimmyHoffa on January 04, 2019, 10:22:19 PM
It's not just the Cowlitz. A buddy that is new to the area keeps talking about getting a driftboat and how great the fishing is here. He keeps asking why I don't have any kind of boat (anymore) since I've been here forever. Doesn't believe about the then and now, and I must be too much a pessimist. WDFW will show him.......:yeah: me 3!Sold my sled.:yeah: Me too
WDFW is lame.
It truly is sad what they have don't to the river I grew up on.
Post by: 87Ford on January 04, 2019, 10:41:07 PM
It's not just the Cowlitz. A buddy that is new to the area keeps talking about getting a driftboat and how great the fishing is here. He keeps asking why I don't have any kind of boat (anymore) since I've been here forever. Doesn't believe about the then and now, and I must be too much a pessimist. WDFW will show him.......It's barely a remnant of what it used to be.. Especially in the Puget Sound rivers. Didn't even buy a fishing license last year. It's pretty much over. Glad I got to experience the 90's. Here's a couple of updates on what's left of Puget sound steelheading..
https://fortress.wa.gov/dfw/erules/efishrules/erule.jsp?id=2259
https://fortress.wa.gov/dfw/erules/efishrules/erule.jsp?id=2260
Post by: MADMAX on January 05, 2019, 06:13:10 AM
Post by: boneaddict on January 05, 2019, 06:50:48 AM
Post by: Taco280AI on January 05, 2019, 07:38:59 AM
Post by: 2MANY on January 05, 2019, 08:19:12 AM
Lol.
I remember summers the limit was 6!!!!!!!
Fished the Cow from 75' till a couple years ago.
Epic to pathetic to nothing.
Unbelievable.
Post by: Bullkllr on January 05, 2019, 08:54:55 AM
When my dad and brothers first brought me to Blue Creek, you could drive down to the creek itself, then cross on a couple car bodies that were sunk in the creek. There were more steelhead on the bank than people.
Never thought we'd see what it is now. It's decisions like this (killing the early run) that really make a guy wonder if the WDFW evens wants us fishing at all. Even the "spillover" from all of the displaced guides/other fishermen has had a huge and continuing impact on the few places that remain viable. They had to see all this happening...
Post by: BigGoonTuna on January 17, 2019, 12:06:04 PM
The limit 3?????the only years i remember the limit being 6 was somewhere around 07-09 thereabouts. i've only been fishing it since 1990 though... the november '06 highwater blasted the river out so bad that it didn't have good color again until september of '07. completely ruined the area down below mary ellen. remember the guides starting to tie up whole stretches of river with diver set ups, especially when the crack pipe was put in(but before it was off limits to other than "disabled" people).
Lol.
I remember summers the limit was 6!!!!!!!
Fished the Cow from 75' till a couple years ago.
Epic to pathetic to nothing.
Unbelievable.
Post by: Screaminreelz on January 19, 2019, 08:20:13 PM
Cool thanks everyone for the reports of the glory days. There's fish you just gotta put your time in.
Post by: HntnFsh on January 19, 2019, 09:00:19 PM
Post by: Alchase on January 19, 2019, 10:27:22 PM
Post by: fowl smacker on January 19, 2019, 10:45:09 PM
Post by: hike2hunt on January 20, 2019, 06:02:28 AM
Post by: Screaminreelz on January 20, 2019, 11:58:22 AM